Mark Ackerman is a professor in the School of Information and in the Division of Computer Science and Engineering in the College of Engineering. Mark is a member of the CHI Academy (HCI fellow).

Current projects:

• Infrastructures for collaborative systems
• Analyses of online worlds and social computing
• Privacy in pervasive environments
• Reuse of information, especially in disease management

Xiaomu Zhou is a PhD student in the School of Information. She is interested in computer-mediated communication, information access and reuse in organizational settings, and organizational memory. Xiaomu has a BS in computer science and technology, Shandong University, and a MS in computer science and application, Beijing Institute of Technology.

Current projects:

• An ethnography of informal information use in a hospital setting

Jina Huh is a Ph.D. student in the School of Information. Jina is interested in the coevolution between people and the design of technology. She received a MHCI from HCI Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, and a BA in Multimedia design from the Korean National University of Arts.

Current projects:

• How people use cloud computing.
• How people with ADHD organize information online
• How we might better help people organize their online information

Kevin Nam is a PhD student in the School of Information. He is interested in human-computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work. Kevin has an MS in computer science from the University of Michigan and a BS in computer science from the University of Texas at Dallas.

Current projects:

• Arkose 2, a system to help distill knowledge from online Q&A communities

Jiang Yang is a PhD student in the School of Information. She is interested in interaction in large-scale social-tech systems such as Q&A forums, Wikipedia, and Facebook. Jiang has a BS degree in Information System & Management and a MS in Financial Engineering from the University of Science & Technology of China. Jiang is co-advised by Lada Adamic.

Current projects:

• Examining what keeps people online at three large Q&A communities
• Using social computational methods to understand the complexity in people's social interactions and co-evolution in the systems

Ayşe Büyüktür is a PhD student in the School of Information. Ayşe is interested in human-computer interaction, socio-technical systems, and large-scale cyberinfrastructures for science. She received a Master of Public Health in 2003 and Master of Science in Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2006, both from the University of Michigan. Ayşe is co-advised by Steve Jackson.

Current projects:

• Comparative study of large-scale scientific cyberinfrastructures

Tao Dong is a PhD student in the School of Information. Tao is interested in Human-Computer Interaction, Social Computing, and Computer-supported Cooperative Work. He received a BS in Management Information Systems from Fudan University, China, and a Master of Science in Information from the University of Michigan.

Current projects:

• Context-adaptive Privacy Configuration for Location-based Social Applications

Previous projects:

• iConnect: An Expertise Profiling and Finding System for Organizations