PEOPLE
Informatics People
The Informatics community at Illinois is broad and diverse, and spans multiple disciplines — from science and engineering, to arts and humanities, to the social sciences.
Most members are listed in the tables below. For more detail, and to see how faculty and grad students are connected by research area, see the specific pages for each group:
- Administration and support staff of I3 manage its education programs, research grants, and other institute activities.
- Faculty affiliates are faculty members who have ties with I3 through research interests, courses offered (either graduate or undergraduate), and/or the willingness to advise Informatics PhD students.
- Graduate students pursuing a PhD in Informatics concentrate their studies in one of seven research areas such as Bioinformatics or Spatial Informatics. Doctoral students who have recently graduated are also listed separately below, and more details can be found on the Recent PhD Graduates page.
Informatics staffAffiliated facultyGraduate studentsRecent PhD Graduates
Name | Department | |
---|---|---|
Allen Renear | renear@illinois.edu | iSchool |
Lisa Bievenue | bievenue@illinois.edu | Informatics |
Karin Readel | kereadel@illinois.edu | Informatics |
Lara Orr | larajobe@illinois.edu | Informatics |
Jeff Ginger | ginger@illinois.edu | Informatics |
Boris Capitanu | capitanu@illinois.edu | Informatics |
Michael Haberman | haberman@illinois.edu | Informatics |
Name | Department | |
---|---|---|
Diana Grigsby-Toussaint | dgrigs1@illinois.edu | |
Joseph Yun | jtyun@illinois.edu | Accountancy |
Robert Brunner | bigdog@illinois.edu | Accountancy |
Vic Anand | vanand@illinois.edu | Accountancy |
Brittany Duff | bduff@illinois.edu | Advertising |
Patrick Vargas | pvargas@illinois.edu | Advertising |
Luis Rodriguez | lfr@illinois.edu | Agricultural & Biological Engineering |
Lulu Rodriguez | lulurod@illinois.edu | Agricultural Communications |
Julian Catchen | jcatchen@illinois.edu | Animal Biology |
Alison Bell | alisonmb@life.illinois.edu | Animal Biology (SIB) |
Alfred Roca | roca@illinois.edu | Animal Sciences |
Anna Kukekova | avk@illinois.edu | Animal Sciences |
Juan Loor | jloor@uiuc.edu | Animal Sciences |
Sandra Rodriguez-Zas | rodrgzzs@illinois.edu | Animal Sciences |
Laura Shackelford | llshacke@illinois.edu | Anthropology |
Aaron Brakke | aaron@illinois.edu | Architecture |
John Stallmeyer | stallmyr@illinois.edu | Architecture |
Thérèse Tierney | tierney@illinois.edu | Architecture |
Ben Grosser | grosser@illinois.edu | Art & Design |
Stan Ruecker | sruecker@illinois.edu | Art & Design |
Atul Jain | jain@illinois.edu | Atmospheric Sciences |
Paul Jensen | pjens@illinois.edu | Bioengineering |
Arthur Schmidt | aschmidt@uiuc.edu | CEE |
Mani Golparvar-Fard | mgolpar@illinois.edu | CEE |
Praveen Kumar | kumar1@illinois.edu | CEE |
Huimin Zhao | zhao5@illinois.edu | Chemistry |
Martin Burke | burke@scs.uiuc.edu | Chemistry |
Gabrielle Allen | gdallen@illinois.edu | College of Education |
Janet Thorlton | thorlton@illinois.edu | College of Nursing- UIC |
Sally Jackson | sallyj@illinois.edu | Communication |
M. Scott Poole | mspoole@illinois.edu | Communications |
Jodi Flaws | jflaws@illinois.edu | Comparative Biosciences |
Adam Bates | batesa@illinois.edu | Computer Science |
Aditya Parameswaran | adityagp@illinois.edu | Computer Science |
Alex Kirlik | kirlik@illinois.edu | Computer Science |
Chengxiang Zhai | czhai@illinois.edu | Computer Science |
David Forsyth | daf@illinois.edu | Computer Science |
Derek Hoiem | dhoiem@uiuc.edu | Computer Science |
Gul Agha | agha@illinois.edu | Computer Science |
Jian Peng | jianpeng@illinois.edu | Computer Science |
Jiawei Han | hanj@cs.uiuc.edu | Computer Science |
John Hart | jch@illinois.edu | Computer Science |
Julia Hockenmaier | juliahmr@illinois.edu | Computer Science |
Karrie Karahalios | kkarahal@illinois.edu | Computer Science |
Kevin Chang | kcchang@illinois.edu | Computer Science |
Matthew Caesar | caesar@illinois.edu | Computer Science |
Paris Smaragdis | paris@illinois.edu | Computer Science |
Roy Campbell | rhc@illinois.edu | Computer Science |
Saurabh Sinha | sinhas@illinois.edu | Computer Science |
Svetlana Lazebnik | slazebni@illinois.edu | Computer Science |
Tao Xie | taoxie@illinois.edu | Computer Science |
Yizhou Yu | yyz@illinois.edu | Computer Science |
Alexander Lipka | alipka@illinois.edu | Crop Sciences |
Donald Bullock | dbullock@illinois.edu | Crop Sciences |
Gustavo Caetano-Anolles | gca@illinois.edu | Crop Sciences |
Lila Vodkin | l-vodkin@illinois.edu | Crop Sciences |
Maria B. Villamil | villamil@illinois.edu | Crop Sciences |
Matthew Hudson | mhudson@uiuc.edu | Crop Sciences |
Nicolas Martin | nfmartin@illinois.edu | Crop Sciences |
Stephen Long | slong@illinois.edu | Crop Sciences |
Stephen Moose | smoose@illinois.edu | Crop Sciences |
Steven Clough | sjclough@illinois.edu | Crop Sciences |
Emma Mercier | mercier@illinois.edu | Curriculum & Instruction |
Luc Paquette | lpaq@illinois.edu | Curriculum & Instruction |
Mark Dressman | mdressma@illinois.edu | Curriculum & Instruction |
Michael Tissenbaum | miketiss@illinois.edu | Curriculum & Instruction |
Robb Lindgren | robblind@illinois.edu | Curriculum & Instruction |
Rochelle Gutierrez | rg1@illinois.edu | Curriculum & Instruction |
John Toenjes | jtoenjes@illinois.edu | Dance |
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson | jhasegaw@illinois.edu | ECE |
Wen-Hao David Huang | wdhuang@illinois.edu | Education |
Nathan Castillo | nathanc@illinois.edu | Education Policy, Organization & Leadership |
Eboni Zamani-Gallaher | ezamanig@illinois.edu | Education Policy, Organization and Leadership |
Cynthia D'Angelo | cdangelo@illinois.edu | Educational Psychology |
Dan Morrow | dgm@illinois.edu | Educational Psychology |
H. Chad Lane | hclane@illinois.edu | Educational Psychology |
Umberto Ravaioli | ravaioli@illinois.edu | Electrical & Computer Engineering |
John Gallagher | johng@illinois.edu | English |
Spencer Schaffner | spencers@illinois.edu | English |
Gene Robinson | generobi@illinois.edu | Entomology/Institute for Genomic Biology |
Kevin Hamilton | kham@illinois.edu | Fine + Applied Arts |
Hannah Holscher | hholsche@illinois.edu | Food Science & Human Nutrition |
Zeynep Madak-Erdogan | zmadake2@illinois.edu | Food Science & Human Nutrition |
Margarita Teran-Garcia | teranmd@illinois.edu | Food Sciences and Human Nutrition |
Mei-Po Kwan | mkwan@illinois.edu | Geography |
Sara McLafferty | smclaff@illinois.edu | Geography |
Shaowen Wang | shaowen@illinois.edu | Geography |
Eric Benson | ebenson@illinois.edu | Graphic Design |
Lisa Mercer | lemercer@illinois.edu | Graphic Design |
John Randolph | jwr@illinois.edu | History |
Vivechkanand Chunoo | vchunoo@illinois.edu | Human Development and Family Studies |
Victor Jongeneel | vjongene@illinois.edu | IGB |
Yu-Feng Lin | yflin@illinois.edu | IL State Geological Survey |
Deana McDonagh | mcdonagh@illinois.edu | Industrial Design |
Dan Cermak | dcermak@illinois.edu | Informatics |
Jeff Ginger | ginger@illinois.edu | Informatics |
Charles Roseman | croseman@illinois.edu | Integrative Biology |
Allen Renear | renear@illinois.edu | iSchool |
Anita Chan | achan@illinois.edu | iSchool |
Bertram Ludaescher | ludaesch@illinois.edu | iSchool |
Bonnie Mak | bmak@illinois.edu | iSchool |
Carol Tilley | ctilley@illinois.edu | iSchool |
Catherine Blake | clblake@illinois.edu | iSchool |
Christine Jenkins | cajenkin@illinois.edu | iSchool |
David Dubin | ddubin@illinois.edu | iSchool |
David Hopping | dhopping@illinois.edu | iSchool |
Emily Knox | knox@illinois.edu | iSchool |
Halil Kilicoglu | halil@illinois.edu | iSchool |
Ian Brooks | ianb@illinois.edu | iSchool |
J. Stephen Downie | jdownie@illinois.edu | iSchool |
Jana Diesner | jdiesner@illinois.edu | iSchool |
Jerome McDonough | jmcdonou@illinois.edu | iSchool |
Jessie Chin | chin5@illinois.edu | iSchool |
Jing Rui He | jingrui@illinois.edu | iSchool |
Jodi Schneider | jodi@illinois.edu | iSchool |
Judith Pintar | jpintar@illinois.edu | iSchool |
Kate McDowell | kmcdowel@illinois.edu | iSchool |
Kate Williams | katewill@illinois.edu | iSchool |
Kathryn LaBarre | klabarre@illinois.edu | iSchool |
Kyungwon Koh | kkoh@illinois.edu | iSchool |
Linda Smith | lcsmith@illinois.edu | iSchool |
Lori Kendall | loriken@illinois.edu | iSchool |
Masooda Bashir | mnb@illinois.edu | iSchool |
Michael Twidale | twidale@illinois.edu | iSchool |
Nigel Bosch | pnb@illinois.edu | iSchool |
Peter Darch | ptdarch@illinois.edu | iSchool |
Ted Underwood | tunder@illinois.edu | iSchool |
Terry Weech | weech@illinois.edu | iSchool |
Vetle Torvik | vtorvik@illinois.edu | iSchool |
Victoria Stodden | vcs@illinois.edu | iSchool |
Yang Wang | yvw@illinois.edu | iSchool |
Yun Huang | yunhuang@illinois.edu | iSchool |
Matthew Turk | mjturk@illinois.edu | iSchool/ NCSA |
Andrew C. Phillips | aphillps@illinois.edu | ISGS |
Brant Houston | houstonb@illinois.edu | Journalism |
Christopher Ball | drball@illinois.edu | Journalism |
Citlali Lopez-Ortiz | lopezort@illinois.edu | Kinesiology & Community Health |
Hyojung Kang | hyokang@illinois.edu | Kinesiology & Community Health |
Sean Mullen | spmullen@illinois.edu | Kinesiology & Community Health |
Wendy Rogers | wendyr@illinois.edu | Kinesiology & Community Health |
Shannon Mejía | stmejia@illinois.edu | Kinesiology and Community Health |
Brian Deal | deal@illinois.edu | Landscape Architecture |
Arden Rowell | karowell@illinois.edu | Law |
Chilin Shih | cls@illinois.edu | Linguistics |
Jonathan MacDonald | jonmacd@illinois.edu | Linguistics |
Lane Schwartz | lanes@illinois.edu | Linguistics |
Randall Sadler | rsadler@illinois.edu | Linguistics |
Roxana Girju | girju@illinois.edu | Linguistics |
George Francis | gfrancis@illinois.edu | Math |
Lisa Stubbs | ljstubbs@illinois.edu | MCB |
Rachel Whitaker | rwhitaker@life.illinois.edu | MCB |
Bruce Schatz | schatz@uiuc.edu | Medical Info. Science |
Gary Olsen | gary@life.illinois.edu | Microbiology |
Eli Fieldsteel | eli@illinois.edu | Music |
Heinrich Taube | taube@illinois.edu | Music |
Stephen Taylor | staylor7@illinois.edu | Music |
Anand Padmanabhan | apadmana@illinois.edu | NCSA |
Daniel Katz | dskatz@illinois.edu | NCSA |
Donna Cox | cox@ncsa.illinois.edu | NCSA |
Felipe Menanteau | felipe@illinois.edu | NCSA |
Keith Kelley | kwkelley@illinois.edu | Neuroscience |
Ryan Griffis | ryan.griffis@gmail.com | New Media |
Schuyler Korban | korban@illinois.edu | NRES |
Zahra Mohaghegh | zahra13@illinois.edu | Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering |
Yuan-Xiang Pan | yxpan@illinois.edu | Nutritional Sciences |
Rebecca Smith | rlsdvm@illinois.edu | Pathobiology |
Amy Marshall-Colon | amymc@illinois.edu | Plant Biology |
Surangi Punyasena | punyasena@life.illinois.edu | Plant Biology |
Scott Althaus | salthaus@illinois.edu | Political Science |
Wendy Cho | wendycho@illinois.edu | Political Science |
David Enstrom | denstrom@illinois.edu | Prairie Research Institute |
Chadly Stern | chadly@illinois.edu | Psychology |
Cynthia Fisher | clfishe@illinois.edu | Psychology |
Daniel Simons | dsimons@illinois.edu | Psychology |
Dolores Albarracin | dalbarra@illinois.edu | Psychology |
Gary Dell | gdell@illinois.edu | Psychology |
Jaime Lane Derringer | jderr@illinois.edu | Psychology |
John Hummel | jehummel@illinois.edu | Psychology |
Dan Steward | djs@illinois.edu | Sociology |
Bo Li | libo@illinois.edu | Statistics |
Dave Zhao | sdzhao@illinois.edu | Statistics |
Douglas Simpson | dgs@illinois.edu | Statistics |
Feng Liang | liangf@illinois.edu | Statistics |
Jeff Douglas | jeffdoug@illinois.edu | Statistics |
Naveen Narisetty | naveen@illinois.edu | Statistics |
Steven Culpepper | sculpepp@illinois.edu | Statistics |
Xiaohui Chen | xhchen@illinois.edu | Statistics |
Yuguo Chen | yuguo@illinois.edu | Statistics |
Christopher Prom | prom@illinois.edu | University Library |
Bev Wilson | bevwilso@illinois.edu | Urban & Regional Planning |
Stacy Harwood | sharwood@illinois.edu | Urban & Regional Planning |
Name | Research area | |
---|---|---|
Mohammad Amanzadeh | amanzad2@illinois.edu |
Art and Cultural Informatics |
James Balamuta | balamut2@illinois.edu |
Data Analytics and Information Visualization |
John Bambenek | bambenek@illinois.edu |
Design, Technology and Society |
Priscilla Boff Ferronato | pf4@illinois.edu |
Design, Technology and Society |
John Capozzo | capozzo2@illinois.edu |
Data Analytics and Information Visualization |
Ryan Chandler | rchan8@illinois.edu |
Cognitive Science and Language Processing |
Si Chen | sichen12@illinois.edu | |
Eugene Cox | emcox3@illinois.edu |
Design, Technology and Society |
Juan De La Rosa | juanad2@illinois.edu |
Design, Technology and Society |
Daniela Delgado Ramos | dd6@illinois.edu |
Design, Technology and Society |
Gerry Derksen | gderksen@illinois.edu |
Design, Technology and Society |
Alvarez Dixon | alvarezd@illinois.edu |
Design, Technology and Society |
Craig Evans | csevans2@illinois.edu |
Design, Technology and Society |
Acton Gorton | agorton2@illinois.edu |
Data Analytics and Information Visualization |
Claudia Grisales | clg3@illinois.edu |
Design, Technology and Society |
Thierry Guigma | tguigma@illinois.edu |
Health and Medical Informatics |
Colleen Heinemann | heinmnn2@illinois.edu |
Data Analytics and Information Visualization |
Kelechi Ikegwu | ikegwu2@illinois.edu |
Cognitive Science and Language Processing |
Ryan Ingebritsen | ingebrit@illinois.edu |
Art and Cultural Informatics Design, Technology and Society |
Donald Keefer | dkeefer@illinois.edu |
Cognitive Science and Language Processing |
Alexis Kim | ankim2@illinois.edu |
Design, Technology and Society |
Susan Liepert | liepert@illinois.edu |
Design, Technology and Society |
Chang Liu | cliu100@illinois.edu |
Data Analytics and Information Visualization |
Yishuo Liu | yliu256@illinois.edu |
Cognitive Science and Language Processing |
Alexander Michels | michels9@illinois.edu |
Spatial Informatics |
Bushra Minhas | bfazal2@illinois.edu |
Bioinformatics |
Mark Moran | markdm2@illinois.edu |
Cognitive Science and Language Processing |
Fizza Mughal | fmughal2@illinois.edu |
Bioinformatics |
Siva Ratna Kumari Narisetti | srn3@illinois.edu |
Data Analytics and Information Visualization Design, Technology and Society |
Santiago Nuñez-Corrales | nunezco2@illinois.edu |
Cognitive Science and Language Processing |
Justin Pence | jpence2@illinois.edu |
Cognitive Science and Language Processing |
Monica Porteanu | monicap2@illinois.edu |
Design, Technology and Society |
Halie Rando | rando2@illinois.edu |
Bioinformatics |
Nate Russell | ntrusse2@illinois.edu |
Cognitive Science and Language Processing |
Janina Sarol | mjsarol@illinois.edu |
Cognitive Science and Language Processing Data Analytics and Information Visualization |
Tanusree Sharma | tsharma6@illinois.edu |
Design, Technology and Society |
Cliff Shin | thecliff@illinois.edu |
Design, Technology and Society |
Brandi Smith | brandis2@illinois.edu |
Health and Medical Informatics |
Yaguang Sun | yaguang2@illinois.edu |
Design, Technology and Society |
Joseph Troy | jmtroy2@illinois.edu |
Bioinformatics |
Mikko Tuomela | mstuomel@illinois.edu |
Data Analytics and Information Visualization |
Sam Walkow | swalkow2@illinois.edu |
Data Analytics and Information Visualization Design, Technology and Society |
Tian Wang | tianw7@illinois.edu |
Design, Technology and Society |
Bradley Woodruff | bsw@illinois.edu |
Data Analytics and Information Visualization |
Pingjing Yang | py2@illinois.edu |
Design, Technology and Society |
Pan Zhang | panz2@illinois.edu |
Bioinformatics |
Name | Department | |
---|---|---|
Aseel Addawood | aaddaw2@illinois.edu | Informatics |
Syed Abbas Bukhari | sbukhar@illinois.edu | Informatics |
Jarai Carter | carter31@illinois.edu | Informatics |
Usawadee Chaiprom | chaipro2@illinois.edu | Informatics |
Brent Fegley | Informatics | |
Hsiao-Ying Huang | hhuang65@illinois.edu | Informatics |
Michael Junokas | junokas@illinois.edu | Informatics |
Tom Le Paine | tom.le.paine@gmail.com | Informatics |
Kangjae Lee | klee171@illinois.edu | Informatics |
Kyungho Lee | klee141@illinois.edu | Informatics |
Yan Liu | yanliu@illinois.edu | Informatics |
Arshan Nasir | arshan_nasir@comsats.edu.pk | Informatics |
Scott Nixon | senixon@illinois.edu | Informatics |
Ankit Rai | rai5@illinois.edu | Informatics |
Khuram Shahzad | shahzad2@illinois.edu | Informatics |
Kiumars Soltani | soltani2@illinois.edu | Informatics |
Daniel Wickland | wicklan2@illinois.edu | Informatics |
Sean Wilner | swilner2@illinois.edu | Informatics |
Xuesong Yang | xyang45@illinois.edu | Informatics |
Joseph Yun | jtyun@illinois.edu | Accountancy |