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 healthcare 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
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,
informetrics 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
<https://ischool.illinois.edu/research/areas>. For more about our faculty visit
http://ischool.illinois.edu/people/faculty
<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 five 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 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, Drexel, and UCLA, professionals at Baidu,
Google, Twitter, Uber 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-information-sciences/apply
<https://ischool.illinois.edu/degrees-programs/phd-information-sciences/apply>
Application deadline (For full consideration for nomination for a Graduate
College fellowship) is November 01, 2021.
For additional information about our PhD program, see
https://ischool.illinois.edu/degrees-programs/phd-information-sciences
<https://ischool.illinois.edu/degrees-programs/phd-information-sciences>
For questions, please contact Prof. Michael Twidale, PhD Program Director, at
ischool-...@illinois.edu <mailto:ischool-...@illinois.edu>.
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