The iSchool Student Showcase will be held online on Wednesday, April 8, from 3:00-5:00 p.m. CT and in person on Thursday, April 9, from 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. CT in Room 104, Illini Union.
These events are free and open to all.
For the online event, a live discussion forum will allow participants to engage with presenters, submit questions, and share feedback. To register for the online showcase, click here.
For the in-person event, students will feature their poster presentations during two sessions, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. and 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Attendance at both live poster sessions is not required.) From 12:00-1:00 p.m., there will be remarks from the iSchool deans, program directors, etc. Light refreshments will be provided.
Both formats will allow opportunities for robust discussion and enhanced networking during the events.
Online Presentations: Wednesday, April 8, from 3:00-5:00 p.m. CT
Via Zoom
Theme: Influences on Information Behavior
Impact Metrics on Publisher Platforms: Who Shows What Where?
Presented by Heather Greta Parkin (MSLIS)
Modeling Risk Decisions in Roguelike Games
Presented by Kaikun Hu (BSIS+DS)
Weak-Supervision Expectation–Maximization Framework for Predicting Decision- Making Capacity in Older Emergency Department Patients
Presented by Ayan Bhakta (BSIS+DS)
PlantFit: Precision Irrigation Management
Presented by Prisha Singhania (MSIM), Priyal Maniar (MSIM) Yuyang Liu (MSIM), Vimin Piao
Theme: Data & Society
Bibliographic Essay on Caesarism and Bonapartism
Presented by Lucas Steinberg (MSLIS)
Theological Institutions: Addressing Their Communities Through a Comprehensive Collection Development Policy
Presented by Rayna Ehlert (MSLIS)
AI Literacy Initiatives in Academic Libraries
Presented by Elena Zilar (MSLIS)
Theme: Data Analysis
Using Games to explore embodied animal-environments interaction
Presented by Boyuan Qiu (BSIS+DS)
Clarification-Seeking in Biomedical LLMs Under Controlled PICO Ambiguity
Presented by Vasistha Eranki (MSIM)
Data Cleaning and Standardization of National Drug Stockpiles
Presented by Yuran Zhang (MSIM)
Hallucination Mitigation
Presented by Keegan Barbee (BSIS+DS)
Theme: Inclusion, Access and Representation
Reducing Sexual Harassment In Academic Libraries
Presented by Ani Kalousdian (MSLIS)
Developing a Digital Library User Needs Assessment
Presented by Rebecca Thurber (MSLIS)
El Informador de Champaign-Urbana Oral History Project
Presented by Kathia Perez-Enriquez (MSLIS)
Accession Records: More Than Just a List of Books
Presented by Michaela Van Wicklin (MSLIS)
In-Person Poster Presentations: Thursday, April 9, from 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. CT
In Room 104, Illini Union (light refreshments will be provided)
Theme: Inclusion, Access and Representation
Decomposing the Causal Effects of Gender Quotas and Women’s Parliamentary Representation on Female Education and Employment Outcomes
Presented by Priyal Maniar (MSIM)
Naming the Enslaved at Richmond’s Tredegar Iron Works 1862-1864
Presented by Ryan Courtney (MSLIS)
From Orange Room to Blue Room: Rethinking Library Space Through Design Thinking
Presented by Abubakari Ssemwogerere (MSLIS)
Specialized Information Booths for Libraries
Presented by Nicholas Spezia-Shwiff (MSLIS)
Librarian Led Open Access Advocacy in Uganda: Perceptions, Challenges, and Skills Needs
Presented by Koyada Ssemirembe (MSLIS)
Theme: Data & Society
Privacy in Digital Preservation: A FIPPs-Based Analysis of Major Preservation Standards
Presented by Paulina Grzybowicz (MSLIS)
Climate Event and Social Vulnerability
Presented by Duaa Shalan (MSLIS)
Are AI Model Weights Protected Speech Under the First Amendment?
Presented by Julia Trevino (BSIS)
Ukraine and Russia: Librarianships of Resistance and Aggression
Presented by Joseph Mosse’ (MSLIS)
Hidden truths about AI Data Centers
Presented by Monica Ramos (BSIS+DS)
An Atlas of America’s AI Data Center Boom
Presented by Zhanchen Kang (MSIM)
Mapping the Global Network of Youth Football Exploitation: A Data-Driven Analysis of Recruitment Pathways
Presented by Pratham Alavandi (BSIS+DS)
Effect of Extreme Heat on Health in Illinois
Presented by Priyal Maniar (MSIM)
Theme: Data Analysis
Using Transformers for Sections Header Normalization in Biomedical Articles
Presented by Sylvey Lin (MSIM)
Equity Mapping of Healthcare in Illinois
Presented by Eshan Velidandla (BSIS+DS)
The Growth of America’s Library Network: Using OCR to Extract Legacy Library Data
Presented by Nicky Martin (MSLIS)
Quantifying the Effects of Miscropping Synthetic Histograms on VQA Performance
Presented by Benedetto Lozzano (BSIS+DS)
Visualizing 75 years of Book Reviews from The Bulletin of the Center of Children’s Books
Presented by Marshall Warner (BSIS+DS)
Evaluation of Visual Language Models for Early Printed Books
Presented by Yunsu Han (BSIS+DS)
Self-Healing RAG: Securing Fact-Checking with Credibility Awareness
Presented by Yushan Li (MSIM)
Creating Metadata Schemas for Skeuomorph Press
Presented by Amanda Riggenbach (MSLIS)
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
Presented by Chenxi Zhang (BSIS+DS)
Theme: Data Classification & Management
ScholarBot – Healthcare Verifiable RAG
Presented by Yvonne Yang (MSIM)
The Reading Time Machine: Transforming Astrophysical Literature into Actionable Data with Citizen Scientists
Presented by Yu-Chen Tung (MSIM)
A Methodical Approach to Planning Out A Library Book Shift
Presented by Kaylie Lusk (MSLIS)
Encrypted Concealment for Robust Yet Private Transmission Image as a Steganography Tool (ENCRYPT)
Presented by Emily Bae (BSIS+DS)
Environmental, Air Quality and Respiratory Illness Patterns in Illinois: Large-Scale Analysis of Emergency Department Data
Presented by Aditi Amit Patil (MSIM)
Theme: Information Sciences and the Humanities
The Spread of Anti-Lynch Laws
Presented by Abraham Frank (MSLIS)
Balancing Music Librarianship: Exploring the Dichotomy of Music Librarianship and the Educational Opportunities Available to Librarians
Presented by Alex Reyes (MSLIS)
Stylometric Authorship Attribution Under Generative AI Imitation: A Feature-Based Analysis Using the King James New Testament
Presented by Yuxing Yang (BSIS)
HarmonyForge: Reducing “Mechanical Toil” in Music Arrangement through Axiomatic Generation and Glass-Box Explainability
Presented by Dulf Vincent Genis (BSIS+DS)
Developing Campus and Community Partnerships to Support Student Wellness in the Academic Library
Presented by Isabel Braico (MSLIS)
Conscientious Engagement: The Dataset of U.S. Lynching Reports (DUSLR) as Context for Research into Individual Cases of Racial Violence
Presented by Amanda Riggenbach (MSLIS) and Matthew Kollmer (Ph.D.)