Faculty Affiliates

These university faculty affiliates have ties with Informatics through research interests, courses, and/or the willingness to advise Informatics PhD students.

List of Faculty Affiliates

Below is a list of faculty affiliates and their home departments. Click on a name for more information.

Rachel F. Adler iSchool

Gul Agha Computer Science

Carlos Aguiar Industrial Design

Scott Althaus Political Science

Jenny Amos Bioengineering

Loretta Auvil National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Christopher Ball Journalism

William Barley Communications

Masooda Bashir iSchool

Adam Bates Computer Science

Brandon Batzloff iSchool

Alison Bell Animal Biology

Eric Benson Art & Design

Kaitlyn Bequette

Philip Best School of Molecular & Cellular Biology

Catherine Alicia Best-Popescu Bioengineering

Catherine Blake iSchool

Paul J. Bonthuis Comparative Biosciences

Nigel Bosch iSchool

Rachael Bradley iSchool

Jeremy Bregermann

Molly Catherine Briggs Art & Design

Ian Brooks iSchool

Matthew Brooks Plant Biology

Matt Browning Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences

Robert Brunner Accountancy

David S. Bullock Agricultural and Consumer Economics

Donald Bullock Crop Sciences

Nicholas C. Burbules Education Policy, Organization & Leadership

Martin Burke Chemistry

Matthew Caesar Computer Science

Gustavo Caetano-Anolles Crop Sciences

Roy Campbell Computer Science

Caroline Cao Grainger College of Engineering

Matias Carrasco Kind Astronomy

Nathan Castillo Education Policy, Organization & Leadership

Julian Catchen Animal Biology

John P. Caughlin Communications

Dan Cermak Informatics

Anita Chan iSchool

Kevin Chang Computer Science

Xiaohui Chen Statistics

Yuguo Chen Statistics

Jessie Chin iSchool

Chung-Yi Chiu Kinesiology & Community Health

Soyoung Choi Kinesiology & Community Health

Julie L Cidell Geography

Michael Clark

Steven Clough Crop Sciences

Isabella Condotta Animal Sciences

Ryan Cordell English iSchool

Jennifer Cromley Educational Psychology

Steven Culpepper Statistics

Michael Curtin

Cynthia D’Angelo Educational Psychology

Sandy Dall’Erba

Alex Damarjian

Peter Darch iSchool

David Dubin iSchool

Brian Deal Landscape Architecture

Jaime Lane Derringer Psychology

Hamze Dokoohaki Crop Sciences

Jeff Douglas Statistics

J. Stephen Downie iSchool

Mark Dressman Curriculum & Instruction

Fei Du Gies College of Business

W. Brooke Elliott Gies College of Business

David Enstrom Prairie Research Institute

Elhan Ersoz Crop Sciences

Dominic Evangelista Entomology

Catharine Fairbairn Psychology

Eli Fieldsteel Music

Joseph Fischer

Cynthia Fisher Psychology

Jodi Flaws Comparative Biosciences

Eric Ford

David Forsyth Computer Science

George Francis Math

John Gallagher English

Christopher Gaulke Pathobiology

Mani Golparvar-Fard Civil & Environmental Engineering

Ryan Griffis New Media

William Gropp Computer Science

Ben Grosser Art & Design

Kaiyu Guan Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences

Lisa Guntzviller Communications

Rochelle Gutierrez Curriculum & Instruction

Chang-Dae Ham Advertising

Kevin Hamilton Art & Design

Patrick Hammie Art & Design

Jiawei Han Computer Science

Faye V Harrison African American Studies

John Hart Computer Science

Mark Hasegawa-Johnson Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jing Rui He iSchool

Rachel Flood Heaton Art & Design

Samar Hegazy iSchool

Renee Hendricks iSchool

Merinda Hensley iSchool

Manuel Hernandez Kinesiology & Community Health

Julia Hockenmaier Computer Science

Laurie Hogin

Derek Hoiem Computer Science

Elizabeth Hoiem iSchool

Kathryn Holliday Landscape Architecture

Hannah Holscher Food Science & Human Nutrition

Rachel Hoopsick Kinesiology & Community Health

Brant Houston Journalism

WenHao David Huang Education Policy, Organization & Leadership

Yun Huang iSchool

Matthew Hudson Crop Sciences

Jeni Hunniecutt Chez Veterans Center

Sally Jackson Communications

Atul Jain Atmospheric Sciences

Christine Jenkins iSchool

John Hummel Psychology

Faye Jones College of Law

Victor Jongeneel Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Yonghan Jung iSchool

Hyojung Kang Kinesiology & Community Health

Jina Kang Curriculum & Instruction

Karrie Karahalios Computer Science

Daniel Katz National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Keith Kelley Neuroscience

Halil Kilicoglu iSchool

Alexis Kim

Volodymyr Kindratenko Electrical & Computer Engineering

Alex Kirlik Computer Science

Alicia Klees Atmospheric Sciences

Emily Knox iSchool

Kyungwon Koh iSchool

Schuyler Korban Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences

Anna Kukekova Animal Sciences

Charu Kumar Bioengineering

Praveen Kumar Civil & Environmental Engineering

Mei-Po Kwan Geography

Kathryn LaBarre iSchool

H. Chad Lane Educational Psychology

Svetlana Lazebnik Computer Science

Zoe LeBlanc iSchool

Susan Leggett Bioengineering

Colleen M. Lewis Computer Science

Bo Li Statistics

Feng Liang Statistics

Yu-Feng Lin Illinois State Geological Survey

Robb Lindgren Curriculum & Instruction

Alexander Lipka Crop Sciences

Yaoyao Liu iSchool

Stephen Long Crop Sciences

Juan Loor Animal Sciences

Michael C Lotspeich-Yadao II Kinesiology & Community Health

Ismini Lourentzou iSchool

Bertram Ludaescher iSchool

Christopher Lueg iSchool

Jonathan MacDonald Linguistics

Zeynep Madak-Erdogan Food Science & Human Nutrition

Emily Maemura iSchool

Bonnie Mak iSchool

Ripan Malhi Anthropology

Andrew Margenot Crop Sciences

Nicolas Martin Crop Sciences

Ewa Maslowska Advertising

Deana McDonagh Industrial Design

Kate McDowell iSchool

Justin McGrath Integrative Biology

Sara McLafferty Geography

Paul McNamara Agricultural and Consumer Economics

Shannon T. Mejía Kinesiology & Community Health

Felipe Menanteau National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Emma Mercier Curriculum & Instruction

Samy Meroueh Biochemistry

Andrew Miller Electrical & Computer Engineering

Faranak Miraftab Urban & Regional Planning

Zahra Mohaghegh Nuclear, Plasma & Radiological Engineering

Jessica Montag Psychology

Stephen Moose Crop Sciences

Dan Morrow Educational Psychology

Sean Mullen Kinesiology & Community Health

Unnati Narang Business Administration

Margaret Yee Man Ng College of Media Journalism

Santiago Núñez-Corrales National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Melissa Ocepek iSchool

Sang-Hwa Oh Advertising

Moses Okumu Social Work

Gary Olsen Microbiology

Peter Ondish Center for Social and Behavioral Science

Jenny Oyallon-Koloski Media and Cinema Studies

Anand Padmanabhan National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Yuan-Xiang Pan Food Science & Human Nutrition

Luc Paquette Curriculum & Instruction

Aditya Parameswaran Computer Science

Yongjoo Park Computer Science

Andrew C. Phillips Illinois State Geological Survey

Judith Pintar iSchool

M. Scott Poole Communications

Christopher Prom University Library

Surangi Punyasena Plant Biology

Sharath Chandra Ramakrishnan Art & Design

John Randolph History

Umberto Ravaioli Electrical & Computer Engineering

Allen Renear iSchool

Colin Rhinesmith iSchool

Laura Rice Kinesiology & Community Health

Nicole Riemer Climate, Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences

Gene Robinson Entomology

Alfred Roca Animal Sciences

Luis Rodriguez Agricultural & Biological Engineering

Sandra Rodriguez-Zas Animal Sciences

Wendy Rogers Kinesiology & Community Health

Charles Roseman Integrative Biology

James Rounds Educational Psychology

Arden Rowell College of Law

Stan Ruecker Art & Design

Vishal Sachdev Gies College of Business

Randall Sadler Linguistics

Koustuv Saha Computer Science

Tatsuya Sakurahara Nuclear, Plasma & Radiological Engineering

Juan Salamanca Art & Design

Madelyn Sanfilippo iSchool

Eunice Santos iSchool

Bruce Schatz Medical Information Science

Arthur Schmidt Civil & Environmental Engineering

Jodi Schneider iSchool

Jason Scott

JooYoung Seo iSchool

Laura Shackelford Anthropology

Chilin Shih Linguistics

Cliff Shin Industrial Design

Diwakar Shukla Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Daniel Simons Psychology

Douglas Simpson Statistics

Paris Smaragdis Computer Science

Linda Smith iSchool

Rebecca Smith Pathobiology

Andy Song

Pablo Hurtado-Sorto

Theodore Sougiannis Accountancy

John Stallmeyer Architecture

Chadly Stern Psychology

Dan Steward Sociology

Lisa Stubbs School of Molecular & Cellular Biology

Leona Yi-Fan Su Advertising

Ramanath Subramanyam Gies College of Business

William Sullivan Landscape Architecture

Hari Sundaram Computer Science

Synthia Sydnor Kinesiology & Community Health

Milton Tan Illinois Natural History Survey

Harsh Taneja College of Media

Heinrich Taube Music

Stephen Taylor Music

Margarita Teran-Garcia Food Science & Human Nutrition

Christopher Tessum Civil & Environmental Engineering

Jamus Thayn

Thérèse Tierney Architecture

Carol Tilley iSchool

Michael Tissenbaum Curriculum & Instruction

John Toenjes Dance

Hanghang Tong Computer Science

Vetle Torvik iSchool

Haohua Tu Electrical & Computer Engineering

Matthew Turk iSchool

Michael Twidale iSchool

Ted Underwood iSchool

Patrick Vargas Advertising

Jiovanie Velazquez Informatics

Maria B. Villamil Crop Sciences

Caitlin Vitosky Clarke Kinesiology & Community Health

Chrysafis Vogiatzis Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering

Dong Wang iSchool

Gang Wang Computer Science

Hoahan Wang iSchool

Shaowen Wang Geography

Yang Wang iSchool

Yi-Cheng Wang Food Science & Human Nutrition

Rachel Whitaker School of Molecular & Cellular Biology

Karen Wickett iSchool

Kate Williams iSchool

Ava Wolf

Martin Wolske iSchool

Tao Xie Computer Science

JungHwan Yang Communications

Mike Yao Advertising

Yizhou Yu Computer Science

Chengxiang Zhai Computer Science

Susu Zhang Psychology Statistics

Dave Zhao Statistics

Huimin Zhao Chemistry

Lei Zhao Civil & Environmental Engineering

Ruoqing Zhu Statistics

Julie Zook Architecture

Faculty Affiliates by Program Interest

Below are lists of faculty affiliates by program interest. Click on a name for more information. Note that many faculty affiliates will have more than one program interest.