Faculty

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

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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

Philip Best

School of Molecular & Cellular Biology

Catherine Alicia Best-Popescu

Bioengineering

Catherine Blake

iSchool

Paul J. Bonthuis

Nigel Bosch

iSchool

Rachael Bradley

iSchool

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

iSchool

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

Steven Clough

Crop Sciences

Isabella Condotta

Animal Sciences

Ryan Cordell

iSchool

Jennifer Cromley

Educational Psychology

Steven Culpepper

Statistics

Cynthia D’Angelo

Educational Psychology

Sandy Dall’Erba

Alex Damarjian

Informatics

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

David Forsyth

Computer Science

George Francis

Math

John Gallagher

English

Christopher Gaulke

Pathobiology

Sara Gerke

College of Law

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

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

Volodymyr Kindratenko

Electrical & Computer Engineering

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

Juan Loor

Animal Sciences

Michael C Lotspeich-Yadao II

Kinesiology & Community Health

Ismini Lourentzou

iSchool

Bertram Ludascher

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

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

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

Theodore Sougiannis

Accountancy

John Stallmeyer

Architecture

Katryna Starks

Informatics

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

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

Maria B. Villamil

Crop Sciences

Sharma Vishal

iSchool

Caitlin Vitosky Clarke

Kinesiology & Community Health

Chrysafis Vogiatzis

Dong Wang

iSchool

Gang Wang

Computer Science

Haohan 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

Martin Wolske

iSchool

Tao Xie

Computer Science

JungHwan Yang

Communications

Mike Yao

Advertising

Yizhou Yu

Computer Science

ChengXiang Zhai

Computer Science

Susu Zhang

Psychology

Dave Zhao

Statistics

Huimin Zhao

Chemistry

Lei Zhao

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Ruoqing Zhu

Statistics

Julie Zook

Architecture

Adjunct Faculty

Kaitlyn Bequette

Jeremy Bregermann

Michael Clark

Michael Curtin

Eric Ford

Pablo Hurtado-Sorto

Alexis Kim

Susan Muirhead

Jason Scott

Andy Song

Jamus Thayn

Ava Wolf