PhD in Information Recent Dissertations

The following recent PhD in Information dissertations represent only a portion of the full array of interdisciplinary information science research possibilities within the program and with College of Information Science faculty.

Doctoral dissertations must meet required standards of scholarship and demonstrate the PhD candidate's ability to conduct original research, while answering two primary question:

  1. What can the world learn from the PhD candidate's research?
  2. Will the PhD candidate's work make a difference?

The required oral dissertation defense is the time and space for the PhD candidate to defend their research and ideas in order to satisfy their research committee. 

PHD STUDENT DISSERTATION TITLE DISSERTATION COMMITTEE
Jack Clark Exploring the Effects of Multi-Sensory Extraneous Load on Attention and Task Performance in Virtual Reality Lila Bozgeyikli (Advisor)
Hong Cui
Catherine Brooks
Blaine Smith
Paula Maez Voices from the Margins: A Narrative Exploratory Study of Fat Latinx Women and Their Information Processes/Interpretations of Health Messaging Jamie Lee (Advisor)
Ada Wilkinson-Lee
Z Nicolazzo
Enrique Noriega Assembling Information from Big Corpora by Focusing on Machine Reading Clayton Morrison (Advisor)
Mihai Surdeanu
Peter Jansen
Dongfang Xu Neural Network Algorithms for Ontology Based Information Extraction Steven Bethard (Advisor)
Limin Zhang Towards using eye-tracking and consumer-grade electroencephalogram devices to detect usability issues in mobile applications Hong Cui (Advisor)
Mary Peterson
Yotam Schmargad
Lila Bozygeyikli
Zeyu Zhang Improving Geocoding by Incorporating Geographical Hierarchy and Attributes Into Transformers Networks Steven Bethard (Advisor)
Clayton Morrison
Mihai Surdeanu
Xuan Lu

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