UMD - Key Persons
Dr. Lazar investigates the ways that technologies-which are designed for health and wellbeing-position and support individuals as they age.
EDUCATION
PhD, Biomedical and Health Informatics, University of Washington, 2015
BS, Electrical Engineering, University of California San Diego, 2011
Job Titles:
- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
- Assistant Dean for Finance and Administration
- Finance & Administration
Bridget has her Masters in Public Administration from UNC Charlotte. She has worked in higher education finance and administration since 2010, at Johns Hopkins University and The University of Washington, prior to joining UMD in the INFO College in 2022.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor of Archives
Dr. Marsh is an Assistant Professor of Archives and Digital Curation in the College of Information Studies and an affiliate faculty in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Marsh's research asks how new technologies and decolonizing movements are changing the ways heritage institutions share information with communities and the public. Her work draws on qualitative and ethnographic methods to better understand the discovery and use of archival collections - particularly for the communities represented in them. She explores what might drive the organizational change needed to increase public and community access to collections and provide more ethical models of stewardship in colonial repositories.
Her current research focuses on discovery, use, and access for Native American and Indigenous communities, based on projects undertaken at the American Philosophical Society and the Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archives. Her recent work has appeared in The American Archivist, Archival Science, Archivaria, and Archival Outlook. Her book, From Extinct Monsters to Deep Time: Conflict, Compromise, and the Making of Smithsonian's Fossil Halls, was published in 2019 with Berghahn Books.
She completed her PhD in Anthropology (Museum Anthropology) at the University of British Columbia, an MPhil in Social Anthropology with a Museums and Heritage focus at the University of Cambridge in 2010, and a BFA in Visual Arts and Photography at the Mason Gross School of the Arts of Rutgers University in 2009.
Dr. Marsh acknowledges the Piscataway and Nacotchtank, and their Indigenous kin and neighbors, on whose traditional territories she works. She acknowledges the devastation of colonial warfare and cultural genocide that separated these nations, and all Indigenous peoples in North America, from control of their homelands. She further acknowledges the continued presence and resilience of Indigenous communities and nations today, and thanks those she works with for their good will in efforts to collaborate as she undertakes her work at the University of Maryland.
Dr. Jonathan Lazar is a professor in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland. Dr. Lazar joined the University of Maryland in 2019, after 19 years as a professor of computer and information sciences at Towson University, where he served as director of the information systems program for 14 years.
Dr. Lazar has authored or edited 16 books, including Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction (2nd edition, co-authored with Heidi Feng and Harry Hochheiser), Ensuring Digital Accessibility Through Process and Policy (co-authored with Dan Goldstein and Anne Taylor), Disability, Human Rights, and Information Technology (co-edited with Michael Stein), Accessible Technology and the Developing World (co-edited with Michael Stein), Universal Usability: Designing Computer Interfaces for Diverse User Populations, and Web Usability: A User-Centered Design Approach. His 17th book, Foundations of Information Law (co-authored with Paul Jaeger, Ursula Gorham, and Natalie Greene Taylor) will be published in Sept 2023. He has published over 200 refereed articles in journals, conference proceedings, edited books, and magazines, and has been granted two US patents for his work on accessible web-based security features for blind users.
Dr. Lazar frequently serves as an adviser to government agencies and regularly provides testimony at federal and state levels, and multiple US federal regulations cite his research publications. He has been on the Executive Board of the Friends of the Maryland Library for the Blind and Print Disabled (LBPD) since 2009, has served as the co-chair of the Cambridge University Workshop on Universal Access and Assistive Technology (CWUAAT) since 2012, has been on the program committee of the ACM Conference on Accessible Computing (ASSETS) most years since 2006, and served on the executive committee from ACM SIGCHI from 2010-2015. Dr. Lazar was the general chair of the ASSETS 2021 conference. Dr. Lazar is the executive director of the Maryland Initiative for Digital Accessibility and is a faculty member in the Human-Computer Interaction Lab.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate Associate Professor
Dr. Jordan Boyd-Graber is an associate professor in the University of Maryland Computer Science Department (tenure home), Institute of Advanced Computer Studies, and Language Science Center, and affiliate associate professor in the University of Maryland INFO College. Previously, he was an assistant professor at Colorado's Department of Computer Science (tenure granted in 2017).
Dr. Boyd-Graber's research focuses on making machine learning more useful, more interpretable, and able to learn and interact from humans. This helps users sift through decades of documents; discover when individuals lie, reframe, or change the topic in a conversation; or to compete against humans in games that are based in natural language.
Education:
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2010
Job Titles:
- Lecturer
- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
- Principal
- Interim Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Dr. Renee F. Hill is a Principal Lecturer and interim administrator who is passionate about issues that involve discovering and implementing methods for increasing understanding of diversity issues in Library and Information Studies. Dr. Hill is a former K-12 educator who taught students with special learning needs. This led to her commitment to researching and teaching that examine information needs and information access as they relate to serving diverse populations (e.g., members of various racial/ethnic groups, individuals with disabilities).
Education
Ph.D., Florida State University
MLIS, Florida State University
BA, Florida Atlantic University
Job Titles:
- Professor Faculty Director, Digital Curation for Information Professionals ( DCIP ) Certificate Director, Advanced Information Collaboratory
Dr. Richard Marciano is the recipient of the 2017 Emmett Leahy Award for "outstanding accomplishments that have had a major impact on the records and information management profession." Throughout his career, Richard has worked in highly interdisciplinary and collaborative environments at the intersection of technology, information, and records management. He has focused on blending disciplines (computer science, archives, and information management) to produce new ways of understanding the past. He was the founder and director of the Digital Curation Innovation Center (DCIC) from 2015 to 2020.
In February 2020, Dr. Marciano founded and launched the Advanced Information Collaboratory (AIC). The AIC is an international research network (with partners from North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia) which explores the opportunities and challenges of disruptive technologies for archives and records management (including CAS - Computational Archival Science, AI, ML, Digital Curation, etc.), while promoting ethical information access and use.
Dr. Vanessa Frias-Martinez is an Associate Professor in the UMD College of Information Studies and UMIACS and an affiliate associate professor in the Department of Computer Science. She also leads the Urban Computing Lab.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Program Director
Eun Kyoung Choe is an Associate Professor and Doctoral Program Director in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research bridges the fields of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Health Informatics, and Ubiquitous Computing. With an overarching goal of empowering individuals, her research centers on examining major challenges people face in leveraging personal data, such as personal data collection and exploration. More recently, she has been exploring multimodal interaction as a means to collect rich personal data, promote reflection, and help people dive into their data. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and Microsoft Research. She has been serving on the editorial boards of PACM IMWUT and Foundations and Trends in Human-Computer Interaction. She received her Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of Washington.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor Associate Director, PhD in Information Studies Associate Director of the HCIL
Dr. Chan's research and teaching explore systems that support creative knowledge work. He conceives of "systems" very broadly, from individual cognitive skills, interfaces, tools and practices, to collaborative and organizational dynamics and tools, collective intelligence and crowdsourcing, social computing, all the way to sociotechnical infrastructures within which knowledge work is done. Dr. Chan is also broadly interested in creative work across many domains, although he spends most of his time considering the disciplines of design and scientific discovery. His long-term vision is to help create a future where any person or community can design the future(s) they want to live in.
Before coming to the College of Information Studies, Dr. Chan was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Project Scientist in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Chan received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
- Academic Program Administration
- Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Katherine (Kate) oversees the iSchool's five degree programs and overall curriculum. During Kate's tenure, the College has generated and maintained a 300% increase in its student body and doubled its academic staff. Kate is applying her broad experience in educational policy and academic administration to the development of new degree programs in innovative areas of information science, including information design, social data science, gaming and media analytics, data journalism, library leadership, and smart and connected communities. Kate also teaches in the College and holds a faculty affiliation with the UMD Department of Anthropology. Her teaching and research interests focus on the study of disasters and community resilience, and she has further teaching interests in pedagogy and instructional design.
Prior to joining the UMD iSchool, Kate served as UMD's Undergraduate and Graduate Director for Terrorism Studies and as the Education Director for UMD's National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. She has also held positions with UMD's College of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Center for the Advanced Study of Language (CASL). She has over 15 years of experience in teaching and research in interdisciplinary social sciences.
EDUCATION
PhD, History & Anthropology, University of Michigan
MA, History, University of Michigan
BA, History, Duke University
Job Titles:
- Dean
- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
- Professor and Dean
Keith Marzullo, Dean of the UMD College of Information Studies (the iSchool) since 2016, is leading the college through a period of dynamic growth driven by the growing importance of information and technology in the service of people. Since joining the iSchool, Marzullo has revitalized the college's strategic plan, overseen the development of new academic programs in tandem with rapid growth in faculty, staff and students, and supported the expansion of the college's research areas and expertise. He has strengthened the iSchool's focus on developing external academic, community, and industry partnerships to enhance the college's academic and research capabilities, while also strengthening and creating partnerships across the university.
Marzullo is on the advisory board for the National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering and is the head of the North American section of the international iSchools organization. He is also an ACM Fellow, who comprise an elite group that represents less than 1% of the ACM's global membership and who are recognized for significant contributions to the field of computation and computer science. In recent years, Marzullo's research has focused on technology in the service of people, with a growing interest in cybersecurity, privacy, and socio-technical systems, such as technology that assists in emotion regulation.
Marzullo joined the iSchool from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he served as director of the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development program. In this role, he coordinated R&D and strategic planning activities across 20+ Federal agencies in several areas, including AI, data analytics, cybersecurity, and privacy. Prior to this, Marzullo spent five years at the National Science Foundation, where he directed the Division of Computer and Network Systems in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate.
Previously, Marzullo held faculty positions at the University of California, San Diego (where he chaired the Department of Computer Science and Engineering), the University of Tromsø, Norway, and Cornell University. Marzullo received an A.B. in physics from Occidental College and both an M.S. in applied physics and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University. While earning his Ph.D., Marzullo developed the Xerox Research Internet Clock Synchronization protocol, one of the first practical fault-tolerant protocols for keeping widely-distributed clocks synchronized with each other. Marzullo has contributed over 100 publications and articles to the fields of computing and information science.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
- Associate Dean for Faculty
Job Titles:
- PR, Communications & Marketing
Job Titles:
- Chief Development Officer
- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
- Alumni Relations & Giving
Job Titles:
- Professor Distinguished Scholar - Teacher Faculty Director, Museum Scholarship and Material Culture ( MSMC ) Certificate
Paul T. Jaeger, PhD, JD, MEd, MLS, is a Professor and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher in the College of Information Studies, Director of the Museum Scholarship and Material Culture graduate certificate program, and Associate Director of the Maryland Initiative for Digital Accessibility at the University of Maryland. He previously served as the Director of the MLIS Program.
He studies the impacts of law and policy on information access and behavior, with a focus on human rights and civil rights. He is the author of 20 books and more than 200 journal articles and book chapters. Recent books include Foundations of Information Policy, Foundations of Information Literacy, Libraries and Global Retreat of Democracy, and Foundations of Information Law. His research has been funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services, the American Library Association, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution, and the National Science Foundation, among others.
He is an editor of the journals Library Quarterly and Including Disability. He is the founder of the Conference on Inclusion and Diversity in Library and Information Science (CIDLIS) and co-founder of the Including Disability Global Summit. He has also previously served as an editor for Advances in Librarianship, Government Information Quarterly, the International Journal of Information, Diversity, and Inclusion, and the Information Policy Book Series from MIT Press, but not at the same time. In 2014, he received the Library Journal/ALISE Excellence in Teaching Award. A 2019 study published in Public Library Quarterly named him one of the two most influential scholars of public library research in the past 35 years (it was a tie) and a 2020 study published in Library Quarterly found his publications to have the highest prestige value in the field.
Education
PhD, JD, MLS, Florida State University; MEd, University of North Florida
Job Titles:
- Director for Undergraduate Operations
Job Titles:
- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
- Associate Dean for Research
Dr. Winter studies the co-evolution of technology and work practices, and the organization of work. She has recently focused on ethical issues surrounding civic technologies and smart cities, the social and organizational challenges of data reuse, and collaboration among information workers and scientists acting within highly institutionalized sociotechnical systems. She has published over 70 refereed articles in journals, conference proceedings, and edited books. Her work has been supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation and by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. She was previously a Science Advisor in the Directorate for Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences, a Program Director, and Acting Deputy Director of the Office of Cyberinfrastructure at the National Science Foundation supporting distributed, interdisciplinary scientific collaboration for complex data-driven and computational science. She received her PhD from the University of Arizona, her MA from the Claremont Graduate University, and her BA from the University of California, Berkeley.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Program Assistant
Job Titles:
- Member of the Senior Leadership Team
- Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives
Dr. Jelveh, an expert in data science for public policy, record linkage, and the science of science, joined the iSchool in January 2021 as a former research director at Crime Lab New York looking at the role of prediction in the criminal justice system. At Crime Lab New York, a University of Chicago Research Institute, Dr. Jelveh partnered with civic and community leaders to design, test, and scale promising programs and policies to reduce violence and the harms associated with the criminal justice system.
Dr. Jelveh's research connects techniques from machine learning to problems in the social sciences. He is currently developing and evaluating the impact of prediction models in the areas of domestic violence and gun violence with the objective of improving outcomes. He is also developing record linkage algorithms that are tailored for the unique features of criminal justice data. Dr. Jelveh additionally studies how science gets made, specifically the incentives that drive how research is presented.
Prior to entering the data science field, Dr. Jelveh was a journalist covering economics for outlets like The New York Times, Condé Nast Portfolio, and The New Republic. He holds a BA in economics from the University of Chicago, an MA in quantitative methods in the social sciences from Columbia University, and a PhD in Computer Science from New York University.