[Air-L] Recruiting for University of Arizona's School of Information, PhD Program, Application Deadline: Jan. 2, 2021

[Zack Lischer-Katz]

*Recruiting Doctoral Students, PhD in Information*

*School of Information, University of Arizona ~ Arizona’s iSchool*

*ischool.arizona.edu <http://ischool.arizona.edu/>*



The School of Information at the University of Arizona is accepting
applications for its PhD program to begin Fall 2021. We are seeking a wide
variety of students and, especially, those with interests in:

• machine learning                                         • natural
language processing

• text retrieval                                                 • archival
studies

• digital curation                                             •
virtual/mixed reality

• game development and design                   • human computer
interaction (HCI)

• educational technology                               • qualitative and
mixed research methods

Having advanced object-oriented programming skills, experience with machine
learning toolkits such as scikit-learn or TensorFlow, and/or experience
with widely used real-time development platforms such as Unity would be a
plus. Instructional experiences are also beneficial and should be
highlighted in application materials but are not required. Funded positions
will be available for select graduate students; those students will receive
tuition remission and a stipend in exchange for research-related activity
or instructional work.

The School of Information is an academic department and a professional
school in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University
of Arizona, the state’s only public land grant university. The School of
Information aims to inspire interdisciplinary understanding, diverse
interpretation, creation, and use of the emerging knowledge and information
environments of the 21st century through innovative instruction and
state-of-the-art technology. The School is a place for the
interdisciplinary study of information, broadly conceived, and is focused
on preparing students for living, thinking, and working in the digital
age.

The school and the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences are dedicated
to creating a serious, open, free intellectual space for inquiry, one in
which faculty, students, staff members, and community partners can
participate fully, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender identity,
sexuality, age, socio-economic status, citizenship status, size, abled
status, language, religion, or any other characteristic. Strategically
positioned to lead the University of Arizona’s status as a Hispanic Serving
Institution, SBS foregrounds our awareness of the deep ancestral footprint
of our region’s populations and cultures, including the Tohono O’odham and
Pascua Yaqui peoples whose traditional lands we inhabit. We honor diverse
knowledge traditions and lived experiences, and we strive to foster
accessibility and equity, the conditions in which our members together can
produce new, rigorous, urgent, and evidence-based knowledge.

*For more Information, please
see: https://ischool.arizona.edu/phd-information
<https://ischool.arizona.edu/phd-information>*

*The application deadline is January 02, 2021.*

For quick questions about the application process or materials, please
reach out to our administrative support team through Barb Vandervelde at
barbv at arizona.edu


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Dr. Zack Lischer-Katz, PhD
Assistant Professor, Digital Curation & Preservation
School of Information, Harvill435B
University of Arizona
http://zacklischerkatz.com
zlkatz at email.arizona.edu