Dr. Jacob Thebault-Spieker earned both a BA and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota. His research interests focus on bias, social computing, crowd work, and the shared economy. Dr. Thebault-Spieker’s work will …
News
Guest Lecture: Hybrid Scientific Relation Extraction for Scholarly Knowledge Organization
Speaker: Ming Jiang, PhD student at the Illinois Informatics Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Time: Thursday, Nov 19 at 3 p.m. CST Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/98435362731?pwd=T0xVem1mT1RnbWZzWmNaQ0s5dU1iUT09 The rapid growth of scientific articles has made digital libraries (DL) …
New Faculty Profile: Dr. Chaoqun Ni
Dr. Chaoqun Ni brings her expertise in information technology and science policy to the iSchool. She’s excited to continue her research in scholarly competition and gender disparities within scientific fields at the iSchool, particularly under …
Guest lecture: Language and Justice: Examining the Social Implications of Language Technologies
Language and Justice: Examining the Social Implications of Language Technologies Guest Speaker: Su Lin Blodgett, Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research Montréal Date/Time: Thursday, Nov 12 at 2 p.m., Central Time Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/97748479865?pwd=amxrY1g0Y09wOUdHb29zUmZqb3ZoZz09 Natural language processing (NLP) …
Guest Lecture: Towards Explainable Information Retrieval Models for Professional Search Tasks
Towards Explainable Information Retrieval Models for Professional Search Tasks Guest Speaker: Yue Wang, Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina, School of Information and Library Science Date/Time: Nov 17 at 3 p.m., Central Time …
New Faculty Profile: Dr. Jiepu Jiang
Jiepu Jiang comes to the iSchool with and MS in Information Science from Wuhan University and a PhD n Library and Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh. His research aims at understanding, evaluating, and …
Corey Jackson wins awards for best paper
Corey B. Jackson, the Anna Julia Cooper Postdoctoral Fellow at the iSchool, won an Honorable Mention for the Best Paper Award as part of the 2020 CSCW conference (Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social …
New Faculty Profile: Dr. Corey Jackson
Dr. Corey Jackson joined the iSchool as a Postdoctoral Scholar this fall and will stay on as a faculty member in Fall 2021. Dr. Jackson earned an M.S. in Library and Information Science at the …
Associate Professor Rebekah Willett awarded grant to support home learning for high-need families
Designing Home Learning Materials for High-Need Families: Lessons from/for Museums and Libraries Rebekah Willett, Associate Professor at the iSchool, will co-direct a project with Peter Wardrip, Assistant Professor of STEAM Education in Curriculum and Instruction, …
New Faculty Profile: Dr. Ian Hutchins
Dr. Ian Hutchins is proud to be a returning Badger. He earned both a B.S. in Genetics and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from UW-Madison, and his expertise in scientific research has heavily influenced his success …