School of Information Sciences

Phd Student Jessica Barfield & Assistant Prof. Jiangen He Get Award to Fund Diversity in Robot-Human Interaction Research

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CCI doctoral student Jessica Barfield’s recent research with SIS Professor Dania Bilal looked at diversity and how that affected the way people interact with AI-powered voice digital assistants. Now, in collaboration with SIS Assistant Professor Jiangen He, she’s building on that research by taking similar principles and applying it to human-robot interaction. The two will […]

SIS Grad Student Songhee Kim Becomes CCI’s UX Lab Manager and Graphic Designer

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At her heart, Songhee Kim is an artist, and she’s found ways to incorporate that into her career path over the years. She earned an undergraduate degree in 3D animation and visual effects from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, and went on to work for projects such as Disney Junior’s “Sophia the […]

SIS Alum, Children’s Author & School Librarian Alice Faye Duncan to Publish Two New Books

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Children’s picture book author and school librarian Alice Faye Duncan (’91) looks for those moments in history that define generations yet are not often discussed—and especially aren’t stories typically told via picture book. She was the first-ever picture book author to delve into the Memphis Sanitation Strike and the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. […]

Associate Professor Vandana Singh Wins Google Award for Inclusion Research

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For the past couple of years, SIS Associate Professor Vandana Singh has been increasingly sought after to speak about her research on women and marginalized people in software engineering—namely how those groups often face a toxic culture of inequity, exclusion, discrimination, and even outright bullying in their field. Singh recently won the highly competitive Google […]

Student Spotlight: H.B. Fach Discusses Neurodiversity and Information Sciences

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Featured student: H.B. Fach Location: Lavergne, Tennessee Career Background: I’ve been in libraries in one form or another since 2008, ever since I started part-time at Lavergne Public Library. I went to Nashville Public Library after that, and then the Tennessee State Library and Archives. Currently I’m with HCA Healthcare in their Knowledge Management division. […]

Associate Professor Awa Zhu Elected ASIS&T Deputy SIG Cabinet Director

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After serving in different positions over several years in two Association of Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Special Interest Groups (SIGs), Associate Professor Awa Zhu was recently elected to serve as the Deputy SIG Cabinet Director for ASIS&T. She will transition into the role at the end of the upcoming ASIS&T Annual Meeting, which is […]

SIS Faculty, Students to Participate in ASIS&T 2021 Annual Meeting

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At the end of this month, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will be well-represented at the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Salt Lake City. It is at this conference that SIS Professor and Director Abebe Rorissa will move into the position of ASIS&T President-Elect Nov. 2, but many others from the SIS […]