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Research Areas
- Artificial Intelligence and Informatics
- Community Informatics
- Crisis Management and Emergency Response
- Cyberinfrastructure
- Cyber Security and Privacy
- Enterprise, Knowledge, and Process
- Geographic Information Systems
- Globalization*
- Health and Bio Informatics
- Human Capital in Knowledge Society
- Human Computer Interaction
- Information and Image Fusion
- Information Policy
- Learning and Innovation
- Psychology of Terrorism*
- Social Impact and Social Inclusion
- Social Network Analysis*
*Indicates new research area
IST Research
IST engages in what NSF Director, Dr. Arden Bement, calls "transformative research." We define a new discipline, which is the movement of the iSchools, by:
- Investigating information-centric research questions that have an impact to the real world
- Integrating innovative ideas from multiple disciplines to influence the future of information technology
- Shaping the contexts in which information and technology is used
- Studying the impact of novel information technology on people
IST Faculty
Starting with five members in 1999, IST has grown into a diverse faculty of more than thirty at the University Park campus. Our scholarly community offers a breadth of research interests that impact every aspect of information technology. The college continues to add faculty members with rich, new areas of intellectual pursuit.
Quick Facts
Inter and Multi-Discipline Research
In addition to having expertise in many areas, including human-computer interaction, data mining and information retrieval, intelligent systems, the social and behavioral aspects of information technology, and many more, our faculty collaborate in projects across disciplines such as:
- Health Informatics
- Medical Informatics
- Emergency Response
- Enterprise Informatics
- Globalization
