The iSchool welcomes five new faculty members to the school for AY2009-2010 as part of our strategic growth plan. This cohort increases the school to 22 faculty members as we mark Fall 2009 with a move to our new 40,000 sf home at 1616 Guadalupe.

Diane Bailey
Diane Bailey studies advanced information and communication technologies in modern workplaces. Her research examines the interplay between work and technology in highly technical settings and occupations Diane holds a PhD in industrial engineering and operations research from the University of California at Berkeley. Author of numerous articles and award winning papers on knowledge use in organizations, Diane’s has received regular funding from NSF, General Motors and Phillips among others. She joined the iSchool from the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford and will teach classes in the area of technology & work as well as managing information organizations.

Unmil Karadkar
Unmil Karadkar studies human-computer interactions, digital libraries, and digital humanities. Unmil is completing his PhD in computer science at Texas A&M where he conducted research in the Center for the Study of Digital Libraries. He has published extensively in many conferences such as ACM/IEEE JCDL and ASIST, and in the International Journal of Digital Libraries. He will teach classes in Database Management, Digital Libraries, and human computer interaction.

Matthew Lease
Matthew Lease studies information retrieval, natural language processing, and computational linguistics. Matt completed his PhD in computer science at Brown University in 2009 with a dissertation titled: Beyond Keywords: Finding Information More Accurately and Easily Using Natural Language. Author more than a dozen conference papers and book chapters on IR and NLP, Matt also holds an appointment with Computer Science. He will teach classes on information retrieval and mathematical concepts in information science.

Ciaran Trace
Ciaran Trace studies archives and records management, material culture and information in everyday life. Ciaran holds a PhD in library and information science from UCLA and will join the iSchool faculty in January 2010 from the University of Wisconsin. Her work has appeared in leading journals such as JASIST, Journal of Documentation, and Archival Science. She will teach classes on archival enterprise and records management.

Yan Zhang
Yan Zhang studies people's psychological processes when interacting with information retrieval systems. She is completing her dissertation People’s Construction of Mental Models of an Information-rich Web Space at University of North Carolina School of Information and Library Science. She also has a M.S. in Information Sciences from University of Tennessee, Knoxville and a B.S. in Information Management and Systems from Nanjing University, China. Yan has received awards from IBM and published her work in journals such as JASIST, Information Processing & Management, and D-Lib. She will teach classes in information architecture and understanding and serving users.

The School of Information is collaborative interdisciplinary grouping of faculty committed to advancing knowledge of the role of information in society and educating leaders in the information professions. The school is home to the nation’s #1 program in Archives & Preservation, and offers graduate education at the Masters and Doctoral levels, including a new joint degree program in Law and Information.