Informatics Minor Minseok Jung and team win MIT Policy Hackathon
Informatics Minor, Minseok Jung and his team Policy4ALL took first place in the 2021 MIT Policy Hackaton. The 2021 challenge required participants to draft a policy brief on how governments around the world approach moderating online content. Jung and his team took the top prize among 10 teams and over 480 applicants.
Just Announced-Game Studies & Design Minor
Informatics is pleased to announce the addition of the Games Studies & Design Minor. Course registration is open and zoom advising sessions will begin this week for students. The Game Studies & Design minor offers a set of courses that foster critical skills in academic game studies and technical skills in game design. The minor will […]
Postdoctoral Teaching Associate Position in Game Studies Program
School of Information Sciences Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in Game Studies Program Deadline for full consideration – December 15, 2021 The School of Information Sciences (iSchool) postdoctoral teaching associate program seeks to provide mentoring and community support in order to prepare candidates for tenure-stream assistant professor or other permanent appointments inside and outside of academia. Each […]
Coalescing Currents
Informatics PhD student Daniela Delgado and School of Art + Design Faculty and Informatics Faculty Affiliate, Juan Salamanca unveil Coalescing Currents today at the Siebel Center for Design grand opening. Coalescing Currents is 60 ft wide timeline portraying a mixed-reality network of 50 innovative technologies, methodologies, processes, and knowledge frameworks developed at the University of […]
PhD Student Daniela Markazi a 2021 SIGHPC Fellowship Winner
PhD Student Daniela Markazi was selected from over 200 students as one of the 2021 SIGHPC Fellowship winners. The Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (SIGHPC) has announced the eleven recipients of the ACM SIGHPC Computational and Data Science Fellowships for 2021. Funded by SIGHPC, the fellowships are highly […]
James Balamuta Defends Dissertation
Doctoral Candidate James Balamuta successfully defended his dissertation, “Bayesian Estimation of Restricted Latent Class Models: Extending priors, link functions, and structural models” on June 30th and will graduate August 2021. Program Area: Data Analytics and Information Visualization Research: My research interests lie primarily in the cross-sections of computational statistics, psychometric modeling, and large scale data […]
Brandi Smith Defends Dissertation
Doctoral Candidate Brandi Smith successfully defended her dissertation, “Health Disparities, Environmental Toxicants and Midlife Women’s Health Outcomes” on June 25th and will graduate August 2021. Program Area: Health and Medical Informatics Research: My research focuses on racial differences in environmental toxicant exposure and how this effects adverse health outcomes in menopausal women. Additionally I am […]
PhD Student Daniela Markazi a 2021 Generation Google Scholarship winner
Second year PhD student Daniela Markazi is a 2021 Generation Google Scholarship winner. This select group of winners will receive 10,000 usd to continue their work in technology driven fields with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Daniela’s research focuses on how technology can be utilized for social good and she currently works as […]
Outstanding Advising Professional Awarded to Karin Readel
Informatics is excited to announce that Senior Coordinator for Informatics Educational Programs, Karin Readel, was selected for the Outstanding Advising Professional award for the 2020-2021 academic year by IlliAAC. Karin has been with Informatics for 8 years and during that time has boosted awareness and enrollment in educational programs and consistently been a leader in […]
Kelechi Ikegwu Defends Dissertation
Doctoral Candidate Kelechi Ikegwu successfully defended his dissertation, “Machine Learning and Information-Theoretic Approaches for Financial Applications” on May, 6th and plans to graduate May 2021. Program Area: Cognitive Science and Language Processing Research: My research interests are in the field of Machine Learning and recently I have become interested in how Deep Neural Networks learn. […]