The Socio-technical Data Analytics (SODA) research group
(soda.lis.illinois.edu) at the iSchool at Illinois
(www.lis.illinois.edu) conducts research on how to design, develop,
and evaluate new technologies in order to better understand the
dynamic interplay between information, people and technology. The
group has recently introduced a new SODA specialization and is
actively recruiting outstanding MS and PhD students in the areas of
information retrieval, natural language processing, machine learning,
network analysis, text and data mining, knowledge discovery and
informetrics.

The application process is competitive and research assistantships
will be assigned to the most qualified applicants only after admission
to the MS or PhD programs. Successful PhD applicants will receive up
to 4 years of funding, including tuition waivers, stipends and
benefits. Successful MS applicants will receive 1 year of funding
including tuition waivers, stipends and benefits. Funded research
assistantships provide students with increased opportunities to work
closely with the following faculty:
• Catherine Blake (text mining, discovery and health informatics,
summarization),
• Jana Diesner (NLP, machine learning, network analysis, covert information),
• Miles Efron (information retrieval, language technologies, temporal
information),
• Vetle Torvik (informetrics, data mining, literature-based discovery,
name disambiguation).

The Graduate School of Library and information Science supports a
broad range of interdisciplinary research in areas such as youth
services, user services and outreach, information history and policy,
social and community informatics, data curation, and information
organization. More information about available fellowships can be
found at soda.lis.illinois.edu and questions can be directed to
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underrepresented groups are particularly encouraged to apply.

Rolling deadlines are available for the MS program and the deadline
for PhD applications is December 15, 2012.

Dr. Catherine Blake
http://people.lis.illinois.edu/~clblake/


-- 
Kathryn La Barre
President ISKO C/US
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign