University of North Texas 
The Department of Information Science Research Meetings a.k.a Brown Bag meetings primarily focus on raising the awareness of ongoing and planned research to support scholarly collaboration within the department and College of Information. They are meant to support faculty and graduate students' in their research careers; therefore, the meetings are open to all faculty and students who wish to share their research ideas in: Information Science, Library Science, or Data Science, as well as their overlaps with other fields that College of Information specializes in.
The Brown Bag meetings will be held in the DIS Multipurpose room and also online on Fridays from 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. (CT) via Zoom
for the Fall 2024 semester.
A facilitator(s) will open the meeting with a presentation, followed by a discussion.
These meetings are designed to encourage scholarly discussion.
Fall 2024
| DATE | TIME/LOCATION | TOPIC | DISCUSSION LEADER(S) |
| 27 - Sep | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. | Kick-off meeting of the season: planning for the academic year | A roundtable discussion moderated by Research Committee |
| 11 - Oct | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. | Dr. Oksana Zavalina | |
| 18 - Oct | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. | Federated Learning: A privacy Preserving Decentralized Machine Learning Approach | Dr. Pretom Roy Ovi |
| 1 - Nov | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. | The Intersection of Bibliographic Control Research and Information Behavior Research | Dr. Shawne Miksa |
| 8 - Nov | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. | Lessons Learned from IMLS Grant Applications | Dr. Lingzi Hong |
| 15 - Nov | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. | Diffusion and Amplification of Misinformation on Social Media: psychological and technological approach (Presentation) | Dr. Suliman Hawamdeh |
| 22 - Nov | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. | Call for Research: Human Trafficking Awareness and Interventions on Social Networks | Dr. Jeff Allen |
| 6 - Dec | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. | TBD | TBD |
Spring 2024
| DATE | TIME/LOCATION | TOPIC | DISCUSSION LEADER(S) |
| 29 - March | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. | What do we mean by theory development | Dr. Shawne Miksa |
| 5 - April | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. | Outcome-constrained Large Language Models for Countering Hate Speech | Dr. Lingzi Hong |
| 12 - April | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. | Health Informatics Lecture: Participatory Design of Health Infographics for Patients, Research Participants, Caregivers, and the Community | Dr. Adriana Arcia |
| 24 - April | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Relational Possibilities: Using Generative Artificial Intelligence in Artful Digital Storytelling with Black and Indigenous Aesthetic Forms | kYmberly Keeton |
Fall 2023
| DATE | TIME/LOCATION | TOPIC | DISCUSSION LEADER(S) |
| 1 - Sept | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. | Fall 2023 kick off meeting | Dr. Jiangping Chen |
| 8 - Sept | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. | Edge-computing Supported Robust Multi-Robot System | Dr. Kewei Sha |
| 22 - Sept | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. | Deciphering Digital Discourse: An NLP Exploration of Online Incivility and Social Response | Dr. Lingzi Hong |
| 29 - Sept | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. | Introduction to our academic associations: ASIS&T, ALISE, and Other | Dr. Jiangping Chen |
| 6 - Oct | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. | Records of Refuge: Supporting Refugee Communities' Archival Needs | Dr. Ana Roeschley, Julie Miller, Kinza Alizai |
| 13 - Oct | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. | Bias-Aware User Modeling and Evaluation in Intelligent Search and Recommendation |
Dr. Jiqun Liu (University of Oklahoma) |
| 20 - Oct | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. | Generative Artificial Intelligence Entering Mainstream Society | Dr. Brady Lund |
| 3 - Nov | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. | Empowering the Next Generation: Exploring Data Literacy Perceptions and Practices in Community Colleges | Dr. Jeonghyun Kim |
| 10 - Nov | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. | Multilingual Support in Digital Environments: A Case Study of Online Catalogues in U.S. Public Libraries | Dr. Tae Hee Lee |
| 17 - Nov | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. | TBA | TBA |
Spring 2023
| DATE | TIME/LOCATION | TOPIC | DISCUSSION LEADER(S) |
| 25 - Jan | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Departmental Research Summary for 2022-2023 | Drs. Hossain, O'Connor and Moore |
| 1 -Feb | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Cancelled: University closed | - |
| 8 - Feb | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Fighting Misinformation : A systematic review | Dr. Jiangping Chen, Huyen Nguyen |
| 15 - Feb | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. | Attending Professional Conferences - Career Development | Dr. Jeff Allen, Millicent Njeri |
| 22 - Feb | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Identifying Informative Comments in Online News | Dr. Tozammel Hossain |
| 1 - Mar | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Symbiosis or friction: Understanding participant motivations for information sharing and institutional goals in participatory archive initiatives | Dr. Ana Roeschley |
| 8 - Mar | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Oral Histories of Childhood Reading from Diverse Perspectives | Dr. Sarah Evans, kYmberly Keeton, Lacy Molina |
| 22 - Mar | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Considerations for Supporting BIPOC First Generation College Students | Dr. Daniella Smith, Diane Gill, Lydia Oladapo, Ijay Kaz-Onyeakazi |
| 29 - Mar | 12:00 1:00 P.M. | Theory development in LIS | Dr. Shawne Miksa |
| 12 - Apr | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. | Social Support on Social Media for PTSD during the COVID-19 pandemic |
Dr. Heejun Kim, Yildiz Esener |
| 19 - Apr | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M | Diversity in the Curriculum: A Systematic Review, with Observations on Systematic Review Procedures | Dr. Sarah Ryan, Mohotarema Rashid |
| 26 - Apr | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M | The relationship between social noise and misinformation and their impact on the information ecosystem | Dr. Suliman Hawamdeh, Manar Alsaid |
| 3 - May | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M | An Autoethnographic Chronicle: The Evolution of Self-Documentation in African American Community Archives | kYmberly Keeton |
Fall 2022
| DATE | TIME/LOCATION | TOPIC | DISCUSSION LEADER(S) |
| 7 - Sept | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Departmental Research Summary for 2021-2022 | Dr. Jiangping Chen |
| 14 -Sept | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Developing your Digital Presence: Moving a Career Forward | Dr. Jeff Allen |
| 21 - Sept | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
What the Shelves Aren't Saying: An Exploration of Self-censorship in High School Libraries | Dr. Jennifer Moore and Alissa Tudor |
| 28 - Sept | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. | The Two Faces of Social Media in Big Data Analysis, Mining, and Modeling | Dr. Yunhe Feng |
| 5 - Oct | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Global, racial, and gender inequalities persistent in scholarly publishing | Dr. Brady Lund |
| 26 - Oct | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Knowledge representation in health and clinical informatics research | Dr. Muhammad Amith |
| 2 - Nov | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Web as user: The changing power dynamic in bibliographic control | Dr. Shawne Miksa |
| 9 - Nov | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Measuring the novelty of scientific literature through contribution sentence analysis using deep learning and cloud model |
Dr. Haihua Chen |
| 16 - Nov | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Informatics applications in multiple fields: A bibliometrics analysis | Dr. Ana Cleveland, Dr. Haihua Chen, and Natalie Tran |
| 30 - Nov | 12:00 1:00 P.M. | Real-Life Issues as Research |
Dr. Daniella Smith |
| 7- Dec | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. | Slow Writing: Thinkering Over Time |
Dr. Brian O'Connor |
Spring 2022
| DATE | TIME/LOCATION | TOPIC | DISCUSSION LEADER(S) |
| 26 - Jan | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Spring 2022 Brown Bag Kick-off | Dr. Jiangping Chen |
| 2 - Feb | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Involving Your Class in Research | Dr. Jiangping Chen, Haihua Chen and others |
| 9 - Feb | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Plato's Camera: Representation, Spatiotemporal Particulars, and Abstract Universals | Dr. Brian O'Connor |
| 16 - Feb | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. | Data Curation and Digital Preservation |
Dr. Suliman Hawamdeh & Dr. Jeonghyun Kim |
| 23 - Feb | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Candidate Presentation | Faculty Candidate |
| 2 - Mar | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Fostering Wisdom in the Workplace | Dr. Jeff Allen |
| 9 - Mar | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Web Archiving Research Activities at the UNT Libraries | Dr. Mark Phillips |
| 23 - Mar | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Costing & Planning for Empirical Corpus Research | Dr. Sarah Ryan, Irhmani & Mohotarema Rashid |
| 30 - Mar | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
The Web as User | Dr. Shawne Miksa |
| 6 - Apr | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Towards Data-driven Methods to Mitigate Online Aggression | Dr. Lingzi Hong, Xinchen Yu |
| 13 - Apr | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Riding the Wave: LIS Scholarship's Multidisciplinary Research Imperative | Dr. Maurice Wheeler |
| 20 - Apr | 12:00 1:00 P.M. | Legal Data Science | Dr. Angel Durr |
Fall 2021
| DATE | TIME/LOCATION | TOPIC | DISCUSSION LEADER(S) |
| 25 - Aug | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Fall 2021 Brown Bag Kick-off | Dr. Jiangping Chen |
| 1 - Sep | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
IR-TREC and SIGIR Proceeding Analysis | Haihua Chen and Huyen Nguyen |
| 8 - Sep | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Deep Thinking on Information Science | Dr. Shawne Miksa |
| 15 - Sep | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. | Collaborative Research Process |
Dr. Jeff Allen |
| 22 - Sep | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Finding Common Ground: Tips for Working Across Disciplines | Dr. Sarah Evans |
| 6 - Oct | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
An Optimization Method for Quiescience in Aspiration Negamax Alpha-Beta Search | Dr. Stephen Wheeler |
| 13 - Oct | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Reconceptualizing Computational Thinking: From Computer Science to Information Science | Dr. Jennifer Moore |
| 20 - Oct | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Prediction of Concrete Bridge Deck Conditions based on Climate and Weather Data in Addition to Bridge Data: Five States as a Case study | Fariba Fard, Dr. Junhua Ding, Dr. Zhenhua Huang, Sai Supriya Vadla |
| 27 - Oct | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
The Impact of Misinformation and Social Noise on the Original Intended Message: BLM as a Case Study | Dr. Suliman Hawamdeh, Nayana Pampapura, Manar Alsaid |
| 3 - Nov | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
I Need Data. What Do I Do? | Dr. Daniella Smith |
| 10 - Nov | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Research on Metadata in Digital Repositories | Dr. Oksana Zavalina |
| 17 - Nov | 12:00 1:00 P.M. | Construction and Evaluation of High Quality Corpus for Legal Intelligence using Semi-automated Approaches | Dr. Junhua Ding and Haihua Chen |
Spring 2021
| DATE | TIME/LOCATION | TOPIC | DISCUSSION LEADER(S) |
| 20 - Jan | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Spring 2021 Brown Bag Kick-off | Dr. Jiangping Chen |
| 27 - Jan | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Article Submission Process | Dr. Jeff Allen |
| 3 - Feb | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Leveraging Geographical Disparities of Socio-economic Factors to Predict Vulnerable Teenagers to Teen Birth: Chicago as a Case Study | Fariba Fard |
| 10 - Feb | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. | DIS Research Roadmap |
Jiangping Chen |
| 24 - Feb | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Multi-Disciplinary Information Research Symposium (MIRS) 2021 | Malak Khader and Mary Burke |
| 3 - Mar | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Computational Methods to Identify Informative Communications in Social Networks During Crisis | Dr. Lingzi Hong |
| 10 - Mar | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Preparing for Faculty Interviews | Dr. Daniella Smith |
| 17 - Mar | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
The Promises, Perils, and Payoffs of Research in the Public Library Setting | Dr. Sarah Evans |
| 24 - Mar | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Proximity & Anecdata: Constructing an Expanded Model of Information Access | Dr. Brian O'Connor |
| 31 - Mar | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Information Diffusion across Boundaries | Dr. Lingzi Hong |
| 7 - Apr | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Course Paper to Journal Article | Dr. Jeff Allen |
| 14 - Apr | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. |
Characteristics of YouTube Videos Regarding College Students' Mental Health and their Relationship to User Engagement | Dr. Heejun Kim |
Fall 2020
| DATE | TIME/LOCATION | TOPIC | DISCUSSION LEADER(S) |
| 16 -Sep | 1:00 - 2:00 P.M. Zoom Meeting |
Fall 2020 Brown Bag Kick-off | Dr. Jiangping Chen |
| 23 - Sep | 1:00 - 2:00 P.M. Zoom Meeting |
The Ph.D. Journey: Research and Publications | LeAnn Boyce |
| 30 - Sep | 1:00 - 2:00 P.M. Zoom Meeting |
Understanding Sensory Neural Processing Through Efficient Coding Principles | Dr. Mark Albert, Sahar Behpour |
| 7 - Oct | 1:00 - 2:00 P.M. Zoom Meeting |
Information Quality Improvement and Evaluation for Building High Performance Machine Learning Systems | Haihua Chen, Dr. Junhua Ding |
| 14 - Oct | 1:00 - 2:00 P.M. Zoom Meeting |
UNT ASIS&T Student Chapter | Malak Khader |
| 21 - Oct | 1:00 - 2:00 P.M. Zoom Meeting |
Preparing for Data Literacy Leadership: An IMLS Grant Implementation Experience |
Drs. Daniella Smith and Barbara Schultz-Jones |
| 28 - Oct | 1:00 - 2:00 P.M. Zoom Meeting |
Mental Health Information Seeking Behavior among College Students: A Systematic Review | Dr. Jiangping Chen and Xiaoyu (Monica) Zhang |
| 4 - Nov | 1:00 - 2:00 P.M. Zoom Meeting |
COVID-19 Misinformation and Social Noise | Dr. Suliman Hawamdeh, Tara Zimmerman, Nayana Pampapura Madali, Manar Alsaid |
| 11 - Nov | 1:00 - 2:00 P.M. Zoom Meeting |
Application of Data Mining to Social Media Data | Dr. Heejun Kim |
| 18 - Nov | 1:00 - 2:00 P.M. Zoom Meeting |
Data Science in Signal Processing: From Particle Accelerators to Inertial Sensors, Video, and Audio processing | Dr. Ting Xiao |
Spring 2020
| DATE | TIME/LOCATION | TOPIC | DISCUSSION LEADER(S) |
| 22 - Jan | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. IS Multipurpose Room |
Doctoral Student Meet & Greet | Drs. Daniella Smith & Jiangping Chen |
| 29 - Jan | 5:00 - 6:00 P.M. Zoom Meeting |
Digital Scholarship - Creating your Online Identity | Dr. Jeff Allen |
| 5 - Feb | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. IS Multipurpose Room |
Information Behavior Research Landscape | Dr. Jiangping Chen, Liuxing Lu, & Yu Shi |
| 12 - Feb | 5:00 - 6:00 P.M. Zoom Meeting |
Accepted. Now What? | Celenia Graves, Lidia Aviso, & Melissa Vang |
| 19 - Feb | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. IS Multipurpose Room |
Creating a Research Agenda: Advice for Early Career Scholars | Jeff Allen |
| 26 - Feb | 5:00 - 6:00 P.M. Zoom Meeting |
Introduction to the IRB | UNT Office of Research Integrity and Compliance Staff |
| 4 - Mar | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. IS Multipurpose Room |
Entering the Field - Ethnographic Methods | Dr. Sarah Evans |
| 18 - Mar | 5:00 - 6:00 P.M. Zoom Meeting |
Navigating Cayuse IRB | UNT Office of Research Integrity and Compliance Staff |
| 1 - Apr | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. IS Multipurpose Room |
A Literature Review on Web Archiving | Dr. Xin Wang, James Faulker, and Dr. Suliman Hawamdeh |
| 8 - Apr | 5:00 - 6:00 P.M. Zoom Meeting |
Scholarship that Crosses Boundaries: the road to an interdisciplinary research agenda | Dr. Maurice Wheeler |
| 30 - Apr | 5:00 - 6:00 P.M. Zoom Meeting |
ASIS&T Student Chapter & Professional Involvement | Malak Khader & Mary Burke |
Fall 2019
| DATE | Time/Location | Topic | Discussion Leader |
| 4- Sep | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. IS Multipurpose Room |
Applying for IRB using the Cayuse System | Dr. Shobhana Chelliah |
| 11- Sep | 5:00 - 6:00 P.M. Zoom Meeting |
Fostering Workforce Wisdom in a Global Knowledge Economy | Dr. Jeff Allen |
| 18 - Sep | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. IS Multipurpose Room |
REU Research in Summer 2019 & Preparing for Academic Year '19-20 | Drs. Jiangping Chen & Junhua Ding |
| 2 - Oct | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. IS Multipurpose Room |
How to get involved: ASIS&T | Malak Khader & Mary Burke |
| 9 - Oct | 5:00 - 6:00 P.M. Zoom Meeting |
Who is Responsible? Age Group Perceptions of Social Media Privacy with PowerPoint | Dr. Daniella Smith |
| 16 - Oct | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. IS Multipurpose Room |
Video Structure Meaning | Dr. Brian O'Connor |
| 30 - Oct | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. IS Multipurpose Room |
What is an Information Research Problem in Information Science Research? | Drs. Shawne Miksa & Bill Moen |
| 6 - Nov | 5:00 - 6:00 P.M. Zoom Meeting |
Construction and Applications of Knowledge Graphs | Dr. Junhua Ding & Haihua Chen |
| 13 - Nov | 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. IS Multipurpose Room |
Social Noise on Social Media | Dr. Suliman Hawamdeh, Tara Zimmerman & Sahar Behpour |
| 20 - Nov | 5:00 - 6:00 P.M. Zoom Meeting |
Embodied Values, Contextualized Literacies, and Developing Identities with Adolescents in the Public Library | Dr. Sarah Evans |
Spring 2019
| DATE | Topic | Discussion Leader |
| 18-Jan | A Brief Bibliometric Analysis of Information Science & Library Science Publications in 2018 | Dr. Jiangping Chen |
| 25-Jan | Finding Research Topics | Dr. Jiangping Chen |
| 1-Feb | Information Organization and Metadata Research | Dr. Oksana Zavalina |
| 8-Feb | Establishing a User Experience Lab at UNT-COI | Dr. Xin Wang |
| 15-Feb |
Multi-Disciplinary Information Research Symposium (MIRS) - Scholarly communication and abstract writing workshop Call for collaboration: Catapulting the data of today into the environment of tomorrow |
MIRS Committee
Chinami McLain |
| 22-Feb | Productivity: An Eternal Balance for Scholars | Dr. Jeff Allen |
| 1-Mar | "Something that feels like a community": The role of personal stories in building community-based participatory archives | Dr. Jeonghyun "Annie" Kim and Ana Roeschley |
| 8-Mar | When Failure is Success | Dr. Daniella Smith |
| 22-Mar | Software Engineering Process & Practices for Data Science | Dr. Junhua Ding |
| 5-Apr | Cybersecurity Research & Updates | Dr. Suliman Hawamdeh & Dr. Hsia-Ching "Carrie" Chang |
| 12-Apr | Video & Meaning | Dr. Brian O'Connor |
| 26-Apr | An overview of the 2019 iConference | iConference attendees |
Fall 2018
| DATE | Topic | Discussion Leader |
| 14-Sept | A Machine Learning Approach for Detecting Groundwater Runo Connectivity | Dr. Ding |
| 21-Sept | Dynamic capabilities of a smart city: An innovative approach to discovering urban problems and solutions |
Miyong and Habib |
| 5-Oct | Mirror with a Memory: Why Did Photography Explode into 19th Century America | Dr. O'connor |
| 12-Oct | A Typology of Public Knowledge | Dr. Miksa |
| 19-Oct | Deep Changes in law librarianship 1979 - present time | Mary Voegtle |
| 26-Oct | Life in the round: Investing intersection between digital world and ethnic minorities in Yunan, China | Dr. Ming Zhu and Dr. Yunfei Du |
| 16-Nov | ASIS&T Conference Experience | ASIS&T 2019 Attendees |
| 30-Nov | ASIST Presentation: The Current State of Data Governance in Higher Education | Dr. Chang and Cary Jim |
| An Overview of Data Governance, Information Governance and IT Governance | ||
| 7-Dec | Deep Transfer Learning for Classification | Dr. Shuyi Wang |