Current Info Sci PhD students are among the leading up-and-coming scholars in the cross-disciplinary field of information science, helping shape our understanding of technological systems and their use. Head over to our PhD page to meet our students and see what they're working on.

Upon graduation, Information Science's PhDs immediately become top candidates for competitive positions in academia, industry, and elsewhere. Here are the initial job placements for our most recent PhD cohorts:

2023

• Ian Anders Arawjo, Phd conferred May 2023, Assistant Professor at Université de Montréal

• Diana Freed, PhD conferred August 2023, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• David Goedicke, PhD conferred August 2023, Postdoctoral Researcher, Cornell Tech

• Menglin Jia, PhD conferred August 2023, Visiting Research Engineer, Facebook

• Negar Khojasteh, PhD conferred August 2023, Sr. UX Researcher, The Score

• Matthew Vance Law, PhD conferred August 2023, Assistant Professor, Denison University

• Jingjin Li, PhD conferred August 2023

• Sarah Riley, PhD conferred August 2023, IDEAL Provostial Fellow, Stanford University

• Sharifa Sultana, PhD conferred August 2023, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• Palashi Vaghela, PhD conferred August 2023, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, San Diego

• Cheng Yao Wang, PhD conferred August 2023, AR/VR Research Scientist in Global Technology Applied Research, JP Morgan Chase

2022

• Maria Alexandra Antoniak, PhD conferred August 2022, Young Investigator at the Allen Institute

• Andrea Paola Cuadra, PhD conferred May 2022, Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University

• Jiajing Guo, PhD conferred May 2022, Research Engineer, Bosch Research

• Maurice Jakesch, PhD conferred December 2022

• Laewoo Kang, PhD conferred May 2022, Independent artist and researcher in Ithaca, NY

• Anthony Poon, PhD conferred August 2022, Senior Technical Advisor at the University of Washington

• Samar Khalid Sabie, PhD conferred August 2022, University Toronto

• Luping Wang, PhD conferred August 2022, Senior User Experience Researcher, JPMorgan Chase 

2021

• Alex Adams, PhD conferred May 2021, Postdoctoral Researcher, Cornell University

• Vera Khovanskaya, PhD conferred May 2021

• Lauren Kilgour, PhD conferred August 2021, Postdoctoral Researcher, Princeton University

• Hajin Lim, PhD conferred May 2021, Research Associate, Unversity of Wisconsin-Madison

• Samir Passi, PhD conferred December 2021, Researcher, Microsoft

• Hongyi Wen, PhD conferred December 2021

• Vincent Tseng, PhD conferred May 2021, Data Scientist at Verily

• Justine Zhang, PhD conferred August 2021, Assistant Professor at University of Michigan (deferred for a one-year postdoc at Stanford University)

2020

• Jess Hohenstein, PhD conferred August 2020, Postdoctoral Researcher, Cornell University

• Margaret Jack, PhD conferred August 2020, Postdoctoral Researcher, Syracuse University

• Yuhang Zhao, PhD conferred August 2020, Postdoctoral Researcher, Cornell University

2019

• Jean Costa, PhD conferred December 2019, Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford

• Seongtaek Lim, PhD conferred August 2019, Software Engineer, Adobe

• Xiao Ma, PhD conferred August 2019, Software Engineer, Google

• Brian McInnis, PhD conferred August 2019, Postdoctoral Scholar, UC San Diego

• Fabian Okeke,  PhD conferred December 2019, UX Researcher, Facebook

• Minsu Park, PhD conferred August 2019, Research Fellow, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University

• Huaishu Peng, PhD conferred May 2019, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies

• Stephanie Santoso, PhD conferred December 2019, Director of Strategic Initiative, Citizen Schools Maker

• Lei Shi, PhD conferred December 2019 Software Engineer, Google

2018

• Gabe Culbertson, PhD conferred August 2018, Software Engineer, Google

• Ishtiaque Ahmed,  PhD conferred May 2018, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

2017

• Saeed Abdullah,  PhD conferred August 2017, Assistant Professor, Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State University

• Nitesh Goyal, PhD conferred August 2017, UX Researcher, Google

• Elizabeth Murnane, PhD conferred January 2017,  Postdoctoral Scholar in Computer Science, Stanford University

• Rifat Rahman, PhD conferred December 2017,  Assistant Professor, College of Information and Computer Sciences, UMass-Amherst

• Emily Sun, PhD conferred December 2017, UX Researcher, Airbnb

• Xiying Wang, PhD conferred August 2017,  Lead UX Researcher, WorkSpan

• Kaiton Williams, PhD conferred December 2017, Post-doctoral Researcher, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal

• Bin Xu,  PhD conferred December 2017, UX Researcher, Facebook

• Dongwook Yoon, PhD conferred August 2017,  Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia

2016

• Shion Guha, PhD conferred August 2016, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Marquette University

• Mohammod Mashfiqui Rabbi Shuvo, PhD conferred May 2016, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University