[Air-L] Funded Fall 2021 PhD student opportunities: School of Information Sciences, Illinois (due Dec 1 2020)

[Jodi Schneider]

We invite applications to our world-renowned and highly interdisciplinary
doctoral program at the School of Information Sciences (iSchool) at the
University of Illinois. Our students have backgrounds in a broad range of
fields, including the arts, humanities, social sciences, computing, and
artificial intelligence. Our students receive one-on-one mentorship from
faculty who have a global reputation for research excellence in a range of
overlapping areas:



   - Archives & Digital Curation: information preservation; data curation;
   data provenance
   - Artificial Intelligence & Data Science: information management;
   machine learning; natural language processing; data mining; data
   governance; information visualization; privacy, security and trust;
   reproducibility
   - Digital Humanities: cultural analytics, distant reading, computational
   music analysis, digital history
   - Health, Medical & Bioinformatics: learning health care systems,
   clinical informatics, biomedical ontologies, implementation science, health
   in social media, privacy in health, health devices, global health, evidence
   based medicine, semantic representations in medicine
   - Human-Computer Interaction: computer supported cooperative work;
   design and evaluation of information systems and services; mobile
   computing; user experience
   - Information Organization & Access: information literacy; information
   retrieval; foundations of information
   - Information, Culture & Society: community, cultural, and social
   informatics; diversity and social justice; information policy; science and
   technology studies; youth services
   - Library Technologies & Services: digital libraries; education of
   information and professionals; libraries and librarianship
   - Science of Science: knowledge representation and ontologies;
   bibliometrics, informetrics and scientometrics
   - Social Computing & Computational Social Science: crisis informatics;
   computing for social good; social networks; FATE (fairness, accountability,
   transparency, ethics)



For a comprehensive list of research areas, see:
https://ischool.illinois.edu/research/areas. For more about our faculty
visit http://ischool.illinois.edu/people/faculty.



The School's flexible program prepares students with the intellectual
guidance and experiences necessary for vibrant research careers in a wide
range of academic, business, and public sector settings. Accepted students
are guaranteed four years of funding in the form of research, teaching, and
service assistantships, which include tuition waivers and stipends. We also
offer travel support. We especially encourage students from historically
and statistically underrepresented minority groups to apply.



Our PhD program in Information Science is the oldest existing LIS doctoral
program in the U.S. with 270 graduates. Recent graduates are now faculty
members at institutions such as the University of Michigan, University of
Washington, University of Maryland, and UCLA, professionals at Baidu,
Google, and AbbVie, and academic library professionals at the Library of
Congress, Princeton University, and the University of Chicago.



APPLICATION

For more information about the application process, please visit:
https://ischool.illinois.edu/degrees-programs/phd-information-sciences/apply


Application deadline is Tuesday, December 01, 2020, at 11:00 p.m., Central
Time.



For additional information about our PhD program, see
https://ischool.illinois.edu/degrees-programs/phd-information-sciences

For questions, please contact Prof. Michael Twidale, PhD Program Director,
at ischool-phd at illinois.edu.


INFO SESSION

The iSchool is hosting a virtual information session for prospective
students interested in the Ph.D. in Information Sciences degree on
Wednesday, November 11, 2020 at 1pm to 2:30pm (CST).

The event will include interactive sessions with faculty and current Ph.D.
students and will conclude with a degree and application overview.

The event is free, but does require attendees to register prior to the
event. If you are unable to attend the live stream, we plan to record the
entire program and email it out to all registrants.

Event Registration Page
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Event Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Time: 1pm to 2:30pm (CST)

Registration Deadline: 11/11/20 at 9am