Faculty Directory

Portrait photo of Assistant Professor José Aguiñaga

Assistant Professor

School of Information

Research Interests: Academic Libraries, Administration and Management, Archival Collections, Buildings/Facilities, Collections Development, Database and Other Retrieval Systems, Digital/Virtual Libraries, Distance Education in LIS, Electronic Reference Services, Information and Society/Culture, Libraries and Society/Culture, LIS as a Profession, LIS Education and Programs, LIS Faculty and Students, Personnel, Reference and Information Services, Storytelling, Strategic Planning/Marketing/Lobbying

Portrait photo of Susan Alman

Lecturer, Gateway PhD Program Coordinator

School of Information

Research Interests: Administration and Management, Continuing Education in LIS, Distance Education in LIS, Libraries and Society/Culture, LIS as a Profession, LIS Education and Programs, Strategic Planning/Marketing/Lobbying

Portrait photo of Professor Anthony Bernier

Professor

School of Information

Research Interests: Administration and Management, Buildings/Facilities, Critical Perspectives on LIS, Distance Education in LIS, Evaluation of Service, History of Libraries and Library Science, Libraries and Society/Culture, LIS as a Profession, Pedagogy in LIS, Public Libraries, Serving Multicultural Populations, Young Adult Services

Portrait photo of Associate Professor Joni Richards Bodart

Associate Professor

School of Information

Research Interests: Adult Services, Booktalking, Children's/YA Literature, Children's Services, Intellectual Freedom and Censorship, Public Libraries, Readers Advisory Services, YA Services

Portrait photo of Mary Bolin

Lecturer, Gateway PhD Program Coordinator

School of Information

Academic Libraries, Administration and Management, Critical Perspectives on LIS, Discourse Analysis, Information Retrieval Theory and Practice, LIS as a Profession, Open Access Journals, Philosophy/Values/Ethics of LIS

Assistant Professor Jessica Bushey

Assistant Professor

School of Information

Research Interests: Archival Collections, Collections Development, Information and Society/Culture, Preservation of Collections, Reference and Information Services, Storytelling, Usability, UX, Web Design, Visual Arts

Frank Cervone

Lecturer, BSISDA Coordinator

School of Information

Research Interests: Cybersecurity, Health Informatics, Health Information Technology, Information Privacy and Security, Knowledge/IR Management, LIS Education and Programs, Social Network Analysis

Lee C. Chang

Lee C. Chang

Professor

Department of Applied Data Science

Research Interests: Software Systems Engineering Applied to Data Science Projects

Assistant Professor Shih Yu Chang

Assistant Professor

Department of Applied Data Science

Research Interests: Lucid Visualization, Machine Learning, Physical Layer Security, Random Tensors, Statistical Analysis, Tensor Data Processing, Wireless Networking

Michelle Chen

Associate Professor

School of Information

Research Interests: Data Science, Information Systems and Technologies, Information Visualization

Assistant Professor Yu Chi

Assistant Professor

School of Information

Research Interests: Health Informatics, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Needs/Behaviors of Specific Groups, Information Retrieval Theory and Practice

Professor Anthony Chow

Professor and Director

School of Information

Research Interests: Data Analytics and Informatics, eLearning, Information Needs of Underserved Populations, Instructional Design and Technology, Organizational Leadership and Management, Technology Integration, Usability, UX and Web Design

Assistant Professor Crystal Fausett

Assistant Professor

School of Information

Research Interests: Computer/Information Networks, Human Factors, Human-Centered Cybersecurity, Human-Computer Interaction, Research Methods, Teamwork, Training, Usability, UX, Web Design, Users and Uses of Information Systems

Professor Jerry Z. Gao

Jerry Z. Gao

Professor

Department of Computer Engineering (Teaching in the Applied Data Science Department)

Research Interests: Cloud Computing and Services, Mobile Cloud Computing and Technologies, Mobile Computing and Service, Mobile Sensor Technologies, Service Engineering, Smart Cities, Software as a Service (Saas), Software Engineering, Testing as a Service (TaaS), Test Automation

Assistant Professor Souvick Ghosh

Assistant Professor

School of Information

Research Interests: Conversational Search Systems, Database and Other Retrieval Systems, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Retrieval Theory and Practice, Information Systems and Technologies

Assistant Professor Ulia Gosart

Assistant Professor

School of Information

Research Interests: Collections Development, Copyright/Intellectual Property, Indigenous Cultural Institutions, Information Needs of Underserved Populations, International/Comparative Librarianship

Associate Professor Mary Ann Harlan

Associate Professor

School of Information

Research Interests: Children's/YA Literatures, Information Communities in Rural Areas, Information Literacy and Instruction, Information Needs and Behaviors/Practices, Young Adult Services

Associate Professor James Hodges

Associate Professor

School of Information

Research Interests: Archival Collections, Electronic Documents, Information and Society/Culture, Preservation of Collections

Darra Hofman

Lecturer, MARA Coordinator

School of Information

Research Interests: Archival Collections, Archival Description/RAD, Archives and Records Centers, Computer/Information Networks, Copyright/Intellectual Property, Information Policy, Intellectual Freedom and Censorship, Law Libraries, Records Management

Renee Jefferson

Lecturer

School of Information

Research Interests: Academic Libraries, Action Research, Evaluation of Service, Research Methods

Alison Johnson

Lecturer

School of Information

Research Interests: Information Needs and Behaviors/Practices, Information Retrieval Theory and Practice, Organization of Information, Pedagogy in LIS, Users and Uses of Information Systems

Jason Kaltenbacher

Lecturer, MS Informatics Coordinator

School of Information

Research Interests: Administration and Management, Archives and Records Centers, Electronic Documents, Information Policy, Information Systems and Technologies, Information Technology Management, Records Management

Professor Geoffrey Z. Liu

Professor

School of Information

Research Interests: Distance Education in LIS, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Retrieval Theory and Practice, Information Systems and Technologies

Assistant Professor Guannan Liu

Assistant Professor

Department of Applied Data Science

Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence Systems, Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning Techniques, Wireless Signal Processing

Professor Ziming Liu

Professor

School of Information

Research Interests: Digital/Virtual Libraries, Electronic Documents, History of Information Science, Information and Society/Culture, Information Needs/Behaviors of Specific Groups, International Information Issues, Scholarly and Scientific Communication, Serving Multicultural Populations

Professor David Loertscher

Professor

School of Information

Research Interests: Collections Development, Distance Education in LIS, Pedagogy in LIS, Reading and Literacy, School Media Centers/Libraries, Young Adult Services

Professor Lili Luo

Professor

School of Information

Research Interests: Academic Libraries, Digital/Virtual Libraries, Evaluation of Service, Pedagogy in LIS, Reference and Information Services, Research Methods

 Assistant Director Linda Main

Assistant Director and Professor

School of Information

Research Interests: Books/Printing/Publishing Industry, Designing Information Products for a Global Audience, Distance Education in LIS, Information Architecture, Web Programming Languages

Assistant Professor Mohammad Masum

Assistant Professor

Department of Applied Data Science

Research Interests: AI, Cybersecurity, Deep Learning, Ethics in AI, Health Informatics, Large Language Processing, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Tiny Machine Learning

Assistant Professor Norman Mooradian

Assistant Professor

School of Information

Research Interests: Information and Society/Culture, Knowledge/IR Management, Philosophy/Values/Ethics of LIS

Dan Nathan-Roberts

Associate Professor

School of Information

Research Interests: Ergonomics, Health Informatics, Human Factors, Human-Computer Interaction, Usability, UX, Web Design

Assistant Professor Vishnu Pendyala

Vishnu Pendyala

Assistant Professor

Department of Applied Data Science

Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Machine Learning

Professor Kristen Radsliff Rebmann

Professor

School of Information

Research Interests: Academic Libraries, Community Information Centers, Critical Perspectives on LIS, Data Analytics and Informatics, Distance Education in LIS, eLearning, Information Literacy and Instruction, Information Policy, Instructional Design and Technology, Pedagogy in LIS, Public Libraries, Reading and Literacy, Research Methods, Scholarly and Scientific Communication, School Media Centers/Libraries, Science and Technology Literatures, Serving Disabled Populations, Serving Multicultural Populations, Serving the Aged, Storytelling, Technology Integration, Young Adult Services

Associate Professor Tonia San Nicolas-Rocca

Associate Professor

School of Information

Research Interests: Computer/Information Networks, Cybersecurity, Health Informatics, Information Systems and Technologies

Alyce Scott

Lecturer

School of Information

Research Interests: Digital/Virtual Libraries, Preservation of Collections

Professor Simon Shim

Simon Shim

Chair and Professor

Department of Applied Data Science

Research Interests: Internet Computing, Database Management, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval

Vicki Steiner

Lecturer

School of Information

Research Interests: Academic Libraries, Copyright/Intellectual Property, Information Literacy and Instruction, Law Libraries, Open Access, Reference and Information Services, Scholarly and Scientific Communication

Professor Michael Stephens

Professor

School of Information

Research Interests: Emerging Technologies in Libraries and Information Systems, Information Literacy and Instruction, Libraries as Learning Organizations, LIS Education and Programs, LIS Faculty and Students, Pedagogy in LIS

Associate Professor Virginia Tucker

Associate Professor

School of Information

Research Interests: Database and Other Retrieval Systems, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Architecture, Information Retrieval Theory and Practice, Knowledge/IR Management, Law Libraries, Music Organization of Information, Search Engines

Associate Professor Michele A. L. Villagran

Associate Professor

School of Information

Research Interests: Cultural Intelligence, Diversity, Inclusion, Community and Equity, Information and Society/Culture, Information Needs/Behaviors of Specific Groups, Law Libraries, Libraries and Society/Culture, Serving Multicultural Populations, Social Justice in Library and Information science, Special and Corporate Libraries

Beth Wrenn-Estes

Lecturer

School of Information

Research Interests: Children's/YA Literatures, Children's Services, Collections Development, Distance Education in LIS, Early Childhood Literacy and Learning, Information Literacy and Instruction, Information Needs/Behaviors of Specific Groups, Public Libraries, School Media Centers/Libraries, Storytelling, Young Adult Services

Lei Zhang

Lecturer

School of Information

Research Interests: Human-Computer Interaction, Information Retrieval Theory and Practice, Linked Open Data, Metadata and Semantic Web, Organization of Information, Taxonomies, Thesauri, Ontologies, Users and Uses of Information Systems