***apologies for crossposting
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:
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Archives & Digital Curation: information preservation; data curation;
data provenance
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Artificial Intelligence & Data Science: information management; machine
learning; natural language processing; data mining; data governance;
information visualization; privacy, security and trust; reproducibility
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Digital Humanities: cultural analytics, distant reading, computational
music analysis, digital history
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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
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Human-Computer Interaction: computer supported cooperative work; design
and evaluation of information systems and services; mobile computing; user
experience
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Information Organization & Access: information literacy; information
retrieval; foundations of information
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Information, Culture & Society: community, cultural, and social
informatics; diversity and social justice; information policy; science and
technology studies; youth services
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Library Technologies & Services: digital libraries; education of
information and professionals; libraries and librarianship
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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. 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 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
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
For questions, please contact Prof. Michael Twidale, PhD Program Director, at
ischool-phd@illinois.edu.
Virtual information session:
The iSchool is hosting a virtual information session for prospective students
interested in the Ph.D. in Information Sciences degree on Friday, October 15,
2021 at 12pm to 2:00pm (CDT).
https://ischool.illinois.edu/news-events/events/2021/10/15/fall-2021-phd-info
rmation-sciences-virtual-information-session
The event will include interactive sessions with faculty and current Ph.D.
students and will conclude with a degree and application overview.
The event is free, but does require attendees to register prior to the event.
If you are unable to attend the live stream, we plan to record the entire
program and email it out to all registrants.
Registration link:
https://choose.illinois.edu/register/?id=b1cbb82a-4c64-46b8-89de-c57dd8690b7f
Registration Deadline: 10/14/21 at 11:59 PM (CST)
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