[Asis-l] Funded PhD Opportunities with the HathiTrust Research Center at the University of Illinois

[J. Stephen Downie]

Funded PhD Opportunities with the HathiTrust Research Center at the 
University of Illinois

The Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) and the 
Illinois Informatics Institute (I3) at the University of Illinois are 
actively recruiting outstanding doctoral candidates interested in 
research assistantships with the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) to 
develop the HTRC infrastructure, create mechanisms for outreach and 
engagement with scholarly communities, and cross-pollinate ideas among 
HTRC stakeholders.

The HTRC is the research arm of the HathiTrust 
(http://www.hathitrust.org). The HTRC represents a unique collaboration 
between the University of Illinois and Indiana University. The center 
conducts research addressing the technical challenges associated with 
the analysis of massive amounts of digitized text.  HTRC faculty and 
students develop cutting-edge software tools and cyberinfrastructure to 
enable advanced computational access to the growing digital record of 
human knowledge.

The Office of the Provost of the University of Illinois has generously 
provided support for two doctoral students with up to 4 years of 
funding, including tuition waivers, stipends, and benefits. Successful 
candidates will work closely with leading faculty in a cooperative and 
highly interdisciplinary environment. We are particularly interested in 
students with research interests in: information organization and 
access, cultural informatics, digital humanities, data curation, data 
modeling, metadata, machine learning, data mining, and socio-technical 
data analytics.

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, and information organization.  For more 
information about the GSLIS PhD program, please visit: 
http://www.lis.illinois.edu/academics/programs/phd or contact program 
staff directly at <LISapply at illinois.edu>.

Research and education in the Informatics PhD program has a strong 
interdisciplinary flavor involving experts in information and 
computation foundations together with experts in a wide range of 
application areas. It supports interdisciplinary research and promotes 
the creation of new fields of research enabled by the development and 
application of new technologies.  For more information about the 
Illinois Informatics PhD program, please visit: 
https://rhino.ncsa.illinois.edu/display/infophd/Home or contact program 
staff directly at <info-phd at illinois.edu>.

For more information about the HathiTrust Research Center, please visit: 
http://www.hathitrust.org/htrc or contact Prof. J.Stephen Downie, 
Co-Director of HTRC, at <jdownie at illinois.edu>.

The application process is competitive. Research assistantships will be 
assigned to the most qualified applicants only after admission to the 
PhD program. Students from historically and statistically 
underrepresented groups are particularly encouraged to apply.

Deadline for PhD applications to both programs is December 15, 2012 for 
Fall 2013 enrollment.

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    "Research funding makes the world a better place"
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J. Stephen Downie, PhD
Associate Dean for Research
Professor
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
[Vox/Voicemail] (217) 649-3839
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