Funded Fall 2021 PhD student opportunities: School of Information Sciences, Illinois (due Dec 1 2020)

[Jodi Schneider]

Get in touch if you're interested in PhD topics in library linked data or related to digital libraries, semantics, knowledge representation, science of science etc.

-Jodi

https://ischool.illinois.edu/people/jodi-schneider

We invite applications to our world-renowned and highly interdisciplinary doctoral program at the School of Information Sciences (iSchool) at the University of Illinois. Our students have backgrounds in a broad range of fields, including the arts, humanities, social sciences, computing, and artificial intelligence. Our students receive one-on-one mentorship from faculty who have a global reputation for research excellence in a range of overlapping areas:

ARCHIVES & DIGITAL CURATION: information preservation; data curation; data provenance

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & DATA SCIENCE: information management; machine learning; natural language processing; data mining; data governance; information visualization; privacy, security and trust; reproducibility

DIGITAL HUMANITIES: cultural analytics, distant reading, computational music analysis, digital history

HEALTH, MEDICAL & BIOINFORMATICS: learning health care systems, clinical informatics, biomedical ontologies, implementation science, health in social media, privacy in health, health devices, global health, evidence based medicine, semantic representations in medicine

HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION: computer supported cooperative work; design and evaluation of information systems and services; mobile computing; user experience

INFORMATION ORGANIZATION & ACCESS: information literacy; information retrieval; foundations of information; knowledge representation and ontologies

INFORMATION, CULTURE & SOCIETY: community, cultural, and social informatics; diversity and social justice; information policy; science and technology studies; youth services

LIBRARY TECHNOLOGIES & SERVICES: digital libraries; education of information and professionals; libraries and librarianship

SCIENCE OF SCIENCE: knowledge representation and ontologies; bibliometrics, infometrics and scientometrics

SOCIAL COMPUTING & COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE: crisis informatics; computing for social good; social networks; FATE (fairness, accountability, transparency, ethics)

For a comprehensive list of research areas, see: https://ischool.illinois.edu/research/areas

For more about our faculty visit http://ischool.illinois.edu/people/faculty

The School's flexible program prepares students with the intellectual guidance and experiences necessary for vibrant research careers in a wide range of academic, business, and public sector settings. Accepted students are guaranteed four years of funding in the form of research, teaching, and service assistantships, which include tuition waivers and stipends. We also offer travel support. We especially encourage students from historically and statistically underrepresented minority groups to apply.

Our PhD program in Library and Information Science is the oldest existing LIS doctoral program in the U.S. with 270 graduates. Recent graduates are now faculty members at institutions such as the University of Michigan, University of Washington, University of Maryland, and UCLA, professionals at Baidu, Google, and AbbVie, and academic library professionals at the Library of Congress, Princeton University, and the University of Chicago.

APPLICATION

For more information about the application process, please visit: https://ischool.illinois.edu/degrees-programs/phd-library-and-information-science/apply

Application deadline is Tuesday, December 01, 2020, at 11:00 p.m., Central Time.

For additional information about our PhD program, see https://ischool.illinois.edu/degrees-programs/phd-library-and-information-science

For questions, please contact Prof. Michael Twidale, PhD Program Director, at ischo...@illinois.edu