University at Albany - College of Computing and Information - Faculty of the Department of information Studies

Department of Information Studies

Faculty and Staff

The Department’s 10 faculty members have distinguished careers in disciplines that include:

Classification, indexing and access
Electronic information access technologies and users
Human-computer interactions
Archives and records management
Information literacy
Natural language processing and medical language processing
Multimedia organization and retrieval
Impact of information and communication technologies
Technology and learning

Recent faculty honors include:

Professor Philip Eppard was elected a fellow of the Society of American Archivists, the highest honor given to members who have made outstanding contributions to the field.
Assistant Professor Özlem Uzuner and her research team of students placed second out of 44 teams in a national challenge competition for classifying medical texts

Full-Time Faculty Listing

	Deborah Lines Andersen Information Studies, Associate Professor Phone: (518) 442-5122 Email: dla@albany.edu Research Interests: Research methods and statistics, electronic information access technologies and their users, public libraries More >>

	Stephen E. DeLong Geology, Professor Phone: 518-591-8888 Email: delong@albany.edu Research Interests: Decision support, expert judgment, and system dynamics modeling

	Philip B. Eppard Information Studies, Professor Phone: 518-442-5119 Email: pbe40@albany.edu Research Interests: Archives, records administration, preservation management, electronic records, history of recorded information

Hemalata Iyer
Information Studies, Associate Professor
Phone: 518-442-5116 Email: hi651@albany.edu
Research Interests: Information organization, visual resource management, access issues for variable media resources, vocabulary management, metadata, classification theory, user behavior and information services to virtual users

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	Terry Maxwell Information Studies, Associate Professor Phone: 518-442-5126 Email: tamaxwell@hvc.rr.com Research Interests: Intellectual property policy, organizational information management and use, information policy, information public domain More >>

	Abebe Rorissa Information Studies, Assistant Professor Phone: 518-442-5123 Email: arorissa@uamail.albany.edu Research Interests: multimedia information organization and retrieval, measurement and scaling of users’ information need and their perceptions of a multimedia information sources and services, the use/acceptance/adoption and impact of information and communication tech

	Joette Stefl-Mabry Information Studies, Assistant Professor Phone: 518-442-5120 Email: jstefl@albany.edu Research Interests: Integration and assessment of educational technologies, user needs; social implications of technology, media decision-making, and media exposure and its effects on brain functioning

	Ozlem Uzuner Information Studies, Assistant Professor Phone: 518-442-5110 Email: ouzuner@albany.edu Research Interests: Medical informatics, medical language processing, electronic health records, natural language understanding, natural language information access, information retrieval, information extraction, privacy, security, and intellectual property, & user interfaces

	Huahai Yang Information Studies, Assistant Professor Phone: 518-442-5118 Email: hyang@albany.edu Research Interests: Human-computer interaction, computer- supported cooperative work, information visualization, collaborative virtual environment, user modeling, and user adaptive interaction

	Xiaojun (Jenny) Yuan Information Studies, Assistant Professor Phone: 518-591-8746 Email: xy454777@albany.edu Research Interests: Information-seeking behavior, information retrieval, user interface design and evalua tion, information visualization, usability testing, human-computer interaction, and digital libraries

Adjunct Faculty Listing

	Deborah Bernnard Information Studies, Adjunct Professor Phone: (518) 442-3699 Email: dbernnard@uamail.albany.edu Research Interests: Information literacy and instructional design

	Josh Cohen Information Studies, Adjunct Professor Email: jcohen@midhudson.org Research Interests:

	Guy J. Cortesi Information Studies, Adjunct Professor Email: Cortesi@nycapp.rr.com Research Interests: Effective use of Information Technology in distance reporting and virtual organizational settings; the relation of communication channel and task on group composition, participation, and performance in virtual organizations

Staff Listing

	Kathleen Gurney Information Studies, Secretary Phone: (518) 442-5115 Email: gurney@albany.edu

	Frances Reynolds Information Studies, Assistant Dean Internship Placement Coordinator Phone: (518) 442-5110 Email: FReynolds@uamail.albany.edu

	Mary Emerson Information Studies, School Media Internship Coordinator Phone: (518) 442-5110 Email: MEmerson@uamail.albany.edu

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