[Asis-l] Texas iSchool hires two new faculty members

[Ferguson, Wes]

The Texas iSchool is welcoming two new faculty members.

In August, Assistant Professor Amelia Acker<http://www.ameliaacker.com/> joined the School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin from the University of Pittsburgh's iSchool, where she was lead faculty of the archives program. Acker studies digital records and data traces created by mobile devices. She is the co-recipient of a $109,399 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services for research into public library support of youth data literacy.

Assistant Professor Danna Gurari will begin teaching at the iSchool in Spring 2017. Her research interests span computer vision, crowdsourcing, applied machine learning and biomedical image analysis. The recipient of the 2015 Researcher Excellence Award from the Boston University computer science department, Gurari was most recently a postdoctoral fellow in UT Austin's computer science department.

Find more information about Acker and Gurari's appointments at https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/news/two-new-faculty-members-join-ischool.


WES FERGUSON  Public Affairs Specialist II
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