Informatics Minor Students Participate in Undergraduate Research Week 

The 2025 Undergraduate Research Week, highlighting outstanding undergraduate research and creative scholarship at the University of Illinois, will take place from April 20 to 26. The Informatics minors participating in URW and their projects are: Autonomous Chemoenzymatic Robots with Large Language Models Preeti Kamma, Senior, Bioengineering, ENG Generating National Impact in Data Science Education Through […]

First Year Informatics PhD Students Present on AI and Gamification within Heritage Education

“From Past to Present: A Study of AI-driven Gamification in Heritage Education,” co-authored by first year Informatics PhD students Sepehr Vaez Afshar and Sarvin Eshaghi alongside Professors Mahyar Hadighi from Texas Tech University and Guzden Varinlioglu from the University of Liverpool, explores the transformative potential of integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) and gamification within heritage education. […]

Mark Moran Defends Dissertation

Doctoral Candidate Mark Moran successfully defended his dissertation, “STAKEHOLDER REPRESENTATION IN THE CEO’S LETTER TO SHAREHOLDERS” on December 8th and will graduate May 2024. Program Area: Cognitive Science and Language Processing Research: My research is focused on using a range of text-mining techniques to study the content of the Chief Executive’s Annual Letter for large, […]

Thierry Guigma Defends Dissertation

Doctoral Candidate Thierry Guigma successfully defended his dissertation, “PLACE OF TWITTER AND GOOGLE SEARCH DATA IN DISEASE OUTBREAK MONITORING AND FORECASTING: CASE OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC” on November 15th and will graduate May 2024. Program Area: Health and Medical Informatics  Research: My focus is the strengthening of health information systems by the integration of Big […]

Sam Walkow Defends Dissertation

Doctoral Candidate Sam Walkow successfully defended her dissertation, “USING DATA STORIES TO UNDERSTAND SPACIAL MENTAL MODELS OF DATA IN NATURAL SCIENCE DOMAINS: CHARACTERIZING TECHNICAL AND SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE” on December 12th and will graduate May 2024. Program Area: Design, Technology and Society   & Data Analytics and Information Visualization Research: I am a PhD student, and part of […]

2nd Year PhD Student David Hopping Helps Develop New Educational App

The new SCAPES educational app is live! Users young and old can download this free game, designed to inspire future farmers to see #solar power in a new light by combining agricultural and energy production. Search for “my agrivoltaic farm” in the iPhone app store or on Google Play for Android devices! The app was […]

Tian Wang Defends Dissertation

Doctoral Candidate Tian Wang successfully defended her dissertation, “NAVIGATING THE SOCIAL MEDIA PRIVACY LANDSCAPE: INSIGHT FROM USER EXPERIENCES” on January 26th and will graduate May 2024. Program Area: Design, Technology and Society Research: My research interests are human-agent interaction and information trust, and I am also interested in information privacy. My current study mainly focuses […]

Game Design and VR featuring JODY SPERLING February 13th

Game Studies and Design brings to campus a day of Games, VR and Dance at the Siebel Center for Design in the lower level gallery. Join us on February 13th for the following presentations and activities! Game Studies & Design Speaker 12:30-1:30pm SCD Gallery Sam Glassenberg is the Founder and CEO of Level Ex and […]