Faculty Recruiting Ph.D. Students
The iSchool has more than 30 tenured and tenure-track faculty engaged in a variety of interesting research areas. The faculty listed below are actively recruiting Ph.D. students in their fields of interest. The school also has several research-focused professors who include scholarly work in their portfolio of professional activities.
To learn more about our Ph.D. admissions process, read our Ph.D. application checklist.
Jaime Banks
Looking for students in:
Social psychology of AI
Human-Machine communication
Human-Robot/agent/computer interaction
Technology and morality
Public understanding of technology
Carlos Caicedo
Looking for students in:
Network security
Telecommunications policy
Wireless communication technologies and standards
Renate Chancellor
Human Information Behavior
EunJeong Cheon
Looking for students in:
Human-computer interaction (HCI)
Human-robot interaction (HRI)
Science and technology studies (STS)
Ethnographic studies on social and power dynamics with technologies, labor in technology, and critical design methods/theories (e.g., research through design)
Kevin Crowston
Looking for students in:
AI
Skill development
Retention
Sevgi Erdoğan
Looking for students in:
Data-driven policy and decision-making
Data Science Applications in the Built Environment
Human, Infrastructure, and the Environment Interrelations
Smart, Sustainable and Resilient Communities
Ingrid Erickson
Looking for students in:
Critical study of algorithmic and autonomous systems
New and innovative forms of work practice
Knowledge work and analytics
Gender and technology
Laverne Gray
Looking for students in:
Historical justice
Critical social theory
Black Feminism
African American genealogy
Historical information collectives
Kelvin King
Looking for students in:
Information diffusion & misinformation
Machine learning
Statistical, Mathematical, and Econometric Modeling
Lee McKnight
Looking for students interested in:
Internet Governance and AI for Good
IoT
Blockchain & Information Security Policy Innovation
Smart Cities/Communities
Sustainability
Carsten Østerlund
Looking for students in:
Trace data and document centric methodologies
New forms of work including but not restricted to citizen science, AI and work, crowdsourcing
Medical informatics with a focus on personal health records
Beth Patin
Looking for students in:
Epistemicide and epistemic injustice
Reparative storytelling and community archives
Crisis informatics and community resilience
Community-responsive librarianship
Joon Park
Looking for students in:
Cybersecurity, Privacy, and AI-augmented Education
Steve Sawyer
Social informatics and advancing socio-technical perspectives of computing
Jennifer Stromer-Galley
Looking for students in:
AI and society
Human-machine communication
Social media and politics
Bei Yu
Looking for students in:
Large Language Models
Explainable AI
Science Information Quality