Directory
Manuel Acuña
Program Coordinator
Advising: Graduate Student Registration
Nandhini Anne
Student Ambassador
MS Data Science '25
Kunal Arekar
Lecturer
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Evolutionary biology, phylogenetics and climatic niche model reconstructions
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Bioinformatics and data analysis
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Data mining
Jennifer Bates
Program Coordinator
Advising: GradPath Forms and Graduation Steps
Steven Bethard
Associate Professor
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Natural language processing
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Machine learning
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Information extraction
Lila Boz
Assistant Professor
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Extended reality (virtual, augmented, and mixed reality)
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Game development
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Human-computer interaction
Sarah Bratt
Assistant Professor
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Research data management
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Scientometrics & Metadata
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Community data archives
Catherine Brooks
Interim Dean
Professor
Founder, Center for Digital Society and Data Studies
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Instructional communication
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Online collaboration
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Language use & identity
Holly Brown
Director, Graduate Programs and Global Student Services
Advising: General Graduate Advising, Degree Steps
Leonard Brown
Assistant Research Professor, Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
Lecturer for the School of Information
Melody Buckner
Assistant Professor of Practice, Teaching, Learning and Sociocultural Studies
Associate Vice Provost, Digital Learning Initiatives and Online
Jill Castek
Professor of Literacy, Technology & Bi/multilingual Learners & STEM Education
Professor, Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Second Language Acquisition & Teaching
Affiliate Faculty, Center Middle Eastern Studies, Center of East Asian Studies and Center for Latin American Studies
Dan Charbonneau
Assistant Professor of Practice
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Social insect / complex system behavior
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Biostatistics
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Applied data mining / data engineering
Paige Cherry
Student Ambassador
BA Information Science & Arts '25
Minor in Public Relations
Greg Chism
Assistant Professor of Practice
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Data visualization
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Statistics & Statistical Learning
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Social Network Analysis
Jessica Chung
Undergraduate Academic Advisor (Main Campus Last Names P-Z)
Jaclynn Clark
Lecturer
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Cognitive load and sensory processing
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Technology-enhanced learning
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Digital and visual literacy
Diana Daly
Associate Dean, Undergraduate Academic Affairs and Student Success
Associate Professor of Practice
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Social media
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Digital culture
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Qualitative research methods
Audrey de la Rosa
Undergraduate Academic Advisor (Main Campus Last Names A-H)
Nicholas DiRienzo
Instructor
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Data Science Pedagogy
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Applied Machine Learning
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Quantitative Research Methods
Danny Downes
Undergraduate Academic Advisor (Main Campus Last Names I-O)
aems emswiler
PhD Student
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Political economy of community archives
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Nationalism, empire and archives
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Sociology of disciplines in library and information science
Jinyu Gao
PhD Student
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Science of science
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Scientometrics and bibliometrics
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Computational social science
Paul Gignac
Associate Professor, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, College of Medicine, Tucson
Director, Physician Assistant Anatomy, College of Health Sciences
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3D Biological Imaging
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Comparative Neuroscience
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Biomechanics
Charles Gomez
Associate Professor of Sociology
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Computational and Mathematical Sociology
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Global Science and Knowledge
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Hierarchies/Diffusion/Diversity
Bryan Heidorn
Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Academic Affairs
Professor
Director, Center for Digital Society and Data Studies
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Text mining
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Data curation
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Biodiversity informatics
Xiao Hu
Associate Professor
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Learning analytics
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Artificial intelligence and learning
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Human-computer interaction
Vivian Huynh
Student Ambassador
BS in Information Science '26
Data Science Emphasis
Minor in Computer Science
Kapua Ioane
Student Ambassador
BS in Information Science '23, MS in Information Science '26
Peter Jansen
Associate Professor
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Natural language processing
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Artificial intelligence
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Cognitive science
Jennifer Jenkins
Associate Professor of English
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Archival Studies
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Film history and archives
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Southwest/Mexico borderlands cultures
Andrew Kemp-Wilcox
Assistant Professor of Practice
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Narrative Design
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Videogame Industries
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Game Phenomenology
Ayesha Khatun
Ph.D. Student
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Natural language processing
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Deep Learning and AI driven language Technologies
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Transformer models
Hyowon Kim
Ph.D. Student
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Curation and management of sensitive and novel data types
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Analysis of Social Media data related to minorities
Sean Kramer-Lazar
Director of Advising (Major Exploration Students and Microcampus Students A-Z)
Casandra Laskowski
Ph.D. Student
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Ethical implications of artificial intelligence
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Privacy, censorship, and A2J
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The intersection of national security and individual liberty
Jamie A. Lee
Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs
Associate Professor
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Archival Studies
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Storytelling/Digital Storytelling & Oral History
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Theory of the Body/Embodiment
Zack Lischer-Katz
Assistant Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
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Curation/Preservation of Visual Information
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3D Data and Virtual Reality
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Qualitative-interpretive Research Methods
Berlin Loa
Associate Professor of Practice
Knowledge River Program Manager
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Museums and archives
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Collections management
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Taskscapes of cultural heritage & public memory
Xuan Lu
Assistant Professor
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Human-centered Data Science
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Artificial intelligence
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Human-AI Collaboration
Chris Lukinbeal
Professor, School of Geography and Development
Director, GIST Programs
Associate Professor, Social/Cultural/Critical Theory, GIDP
Eric Lyons
Associate Professor, School of Plant Sciences, Biosystems Engineering, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and BIO5 Institute
Barney Maccabe
Professor
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Development of system software for massively parallel and distributed systems
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High-Performance Computing Applications
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Artificial intelligence
Ken S. McAllister
Professor, Public and Applied Humanities
Associate Dean of Research, College of Humanities
Irene Fischler McKisson
Instructor
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Journalism, news writing and editing, and audience development
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Social media content and marketing
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Small business and nonprofit startups
Michael McKisson
Associate Professor of Practice
Director of Undergraduate Studies
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Digital Storytelling
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Entrepreneurship and Product Development
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Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle Data Collection
Teresa Miguel-Stearns
Associate Dean and Director, Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library
Professor of Law
Jack Myers
Lecturer
Valerie Naa Dei Okine
Student Ambassador
MS in Data Science '25
Kelsey A. Osburn
Student Ambassador
BA Information Science & Arts '26
BA Music '26
Minor in Italian
Nicole Pagowsky
PhD Student
Adjunct Instructor
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Information literacy
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Critical pedagogy
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Library instruction
Liangming Pan
Assistant Professor
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Natural language processing
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Large language models
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Machine learning
Elijah Parent
Student Ambassador
BS in Game Design & Development '25
Minor in Computer Science
W.A. Franke Honors College Member
Meredith Parker
Senior Undergraduate Advisor (Online Programs)
Jonathon S. Reinhardt
Professor
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English as a Second Language
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Computer-assisted Language Learning
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Digital Game-based Language Learning
Loren Rieffer-Champlin
Ph.D. Student
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Symbolic Artificial Intelligence
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Bayesian Statistics and Modeling
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Machine learning
Jennifer Rochelle
Assistant Professor of Practice
MLIS Coordinator and Advisor
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Law and technology
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IP/Copyright
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Social justice
Shelley Rodrigo
Senior Director, Writing Program
Associate Writing Specialist and Associate Professor
Cristian Román-Palacios
Assistant Professor
Coordinator and Advisor for MSDS and MSIS
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Phylogenetics and biodiversity drivers
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Paleoclimatic reconstructions and climate change
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Applied data mining and machine learning
Marie Saldaña
Assistant Professor
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Cultural heritage informatics
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Data visualization
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Borderlands archives
Laurie Seder
Instructor
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Learning disabilities emphasizing reading issues
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Emotional disabilities and how to create successful behavior plans
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Educational assessments and research design
Nitika Sharma
Assistant Professor of Practice
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Spatial and social data analysis and visualization
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Statistics
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Natural language processing
Ann Shivers-McNair
Associate Professor
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Cultural heritage informatics
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Collaborative design research
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Communication in design contexts
Marvin Slepian
Regents Professor of Medicine
Director, Arizona Center for Accelerated Biomedical Innovation
Brenton Stewart
Associate Professor
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Cultural heritage informatics
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Digital culture
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Information behavior
Farzaneh Talebhaghighi
Ph.D. Student
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Audio-Visual Archive
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Digital record curation
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Archivist and new technologies
Andrea Thomer
Associate Professor
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Natural History Collections
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Knowledge Infrastructures
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Information Organization
Jaime Valenzuela
Instructor
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Archives and special collections
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Scholarly communications
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Archival ethics
Chase Vallrugo
Student Ambassador
BA in Information Science & eSociety '25 (Online)
Meaghan Wetherell
Assistant Professor of Practice
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Effective Science communication
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Vertebrate Paleontology
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Educational game design
Travis Wheeler
Associate Professor, Pharmacy Practice and Science
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Algorithms and ML for Computational Biology
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http://wheelerlab.org/
Shengjie Xu
Assistant Professor of Cyber, Intelligence and Information Operations
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Cybersecurity
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning
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Intelligent networking systems
