iSchool was well-represented at the 2025 iConference, with the following researchers participating:
· Itza Carbajal (PhD student) in the presentation titled “Envisioning Critical Digital Futures for Archives” at the workshop on Envisioning Critical Digital Futures for Archives.”
· Carole Palmer and Chris Coward presented at the workshop titled “LIS in the Multidisciplinary iSchool: Charting Collective Pathways to a Vibrant Future.”
· Miranda Belarde-Lewis and Sandy Littletree presented at the workshop titled “Repatriating Indigenous records and archives: a Research agenda.”
· Jevin West presented at the workshop titled “Artificial Intelligence and Science and Technology Innovation.”
Chirag Shah and co-author Ryan W. White’s paper titled “Panmodal Information Interaction” was published in Communications of the ACM.
Shahan Ali Memon (PhD student), Soham De (PhD student), Sungha Kang (MLIS student), Riyan Mujtaba, Bedoor AlShebli, Katie Davis, Jaime Snyder, and Jevin West's paper titled "From Job Titles to Jawlines: Using Context Voids to Study Generative AI Systems" was accepted to CHI 2025 Workshop on Human-centered Evaluation and Auditing of Language Models (HEAL).
Melanie Walsh gave an invited talk titled “Responsible Datasets in Context” at the Working with Data for Social Change Symposium, a part of CU Boulder’s Data Advocacy For All Project.
Chirag Shah gave an invited talk titled “From Prompt Engineering to Prompt Science with Human in the Loop” at the University of Quebec.
Shahan Ali Memon (PhD student), and co-authors Bedoor AlShebli, James A. Evans, and Talal Rahwan's paper titled "China and the U.S. produce more impactful AI research when collaborating together" was referenced in a Forbes's article titled "Will DOGE Cuts Threaten U.S. Leadership In Innovation?"
Katelyn Xiaoying Mei (PhD Student) and Anna Choi wrote an article titled “What are AI Hallucinations? Why AIs Sometimes Make Things Up,” published in The Conversation.
Chirag Shah was mentioned in an article titled “Baidu’s Low Priced New AI Models Bring Questions About Cost” published in TechTarget.