People Type: Faculty & Teaching Staff

Nyhoff, Jeff

Biography Education: Ph.D. Performance Studies, University of California – Davis MA, Ph.D. ABD, Dramatic Art University of California – Berkeley B.A. Computer Science, Communication Arts & Sciences Calvin University Classes Taught: LIS 102 (aka CS 102) – Introduction to Computation LIS 351 – Introduction to Digital Information LIS 440 – Navigating the Data Revolution: Concepts …

Rader, Emilee

Education Ph.D., Information, University of Michigan, 2009 Areas of Interest Human-centered data privacy, usable privacy and security, privacy norms, sociotechnical systems Classes taught LIS 220 Digital Footprints: Privacy and Technology LIS 407 Data Storytelling with Visualization Publications Emilee Rader. “Data Privacy and Pluralistic Ignorance” Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS). 2023. Emilee Rader. “Normative …

Royston, Reginold

Education Ph.D. African Diaspora Studies & New Media Studies University of California, Berkeley M.A. African American Studies University of California, Berkeley B.A. Anthropology and Philosophy Howard University Research Interests I am a media anthropologist and digital humanities researcher, jointly-appointed in the Information School (formerly SLIS) and the Department of African Cultural Studies. I teach courses …

Rubel, Alan

Pronouns He | Him | His Education: J.D. University of Wisconsin Law School 2003 Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Wisconsin–Madison 2006 Research Interests: Research fields – Information ethics, policy, and law Areas of interest – Information privacy and security, surveillance, algorithmic decision-making, bioethics Classes taught: LIS 461: Data and Algorithms: Ethics and Policy LIS 460 / Legal Studies …

Rule, Adam

Education PhD – Cognitive Science, UC San Diego, 2018 MS – Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington, 2013 BS – Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2011 Research Interests human-computer interaction, medical informatics, human-centered data science Courses Taught LIS 341: Interaction Design Studio LIS 612: User Experience Design 2 LIS 613: User Experience …

Salo, Dorothea

Education MA Spanish, UW–Madison, 1996 MA Library and Information Studies, UW–Madison 2005 Areas of Interest A/V digitization, digital preservation, research-data management, scholarly communication, information security, privacy Classes taught LIS 500: Code and Power LIS 510: Human Factors in Information Security LIS 601: Information Perspectives and Contexts LIS 632: Metadata Standards and XML Publications Kitchin Tillman …

Saxena, Devansh

Biography I study sociotechnical practices of decision-making in high-stakes domains and the social impacts of introducing AI in such domains. I combine computational and design methods to deeply explore the decision-making space and design systems that augment workers’ practices. My research examines how human-AI interaction plays out in practice where decisions are mediated by organizational …

Schneider, Jodi

Biography Research interests: Controversies in science; science of science; argumentation and evidence; knowledge translation; information quality; evidence synthesis; knowledge organization; biomedical informatics; linked data (ontologies, knowledge graphs, metadata, Semantic Web).

Senchyne, Jonathan

Pronouns He | Him | His Education: Ph.D. English, Cornell University, 2012. Research Interests: Research fields – book history and print culture, American literary history, African American print culture, digital humanities, American Studies Methods and methodologies – archival and special collections research, close reading, historicism Theories – literary and cultural theory, critical race theory, public sphere theory, materialisms …

Thebault-Spieker, Jacob

Pronouns He | Him | His Education Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Minnesota 2017 BA, Computer Science/Spanish, University of Minnesota – Morris 2011 Research Interests Research Fields: HCI, social computing Methods and Methodologies: experimental, geographic/statistical analysis, building systems Areas of Interest: understanding and mitigating bias, behavioral analysis, online communities, distributed work Classes Taught LIS 201: …