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EDUCATION
- Ph.D. candidate, School of Information Sciences
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Aug 2016 – present
Dissertation proposal title: Agreeing to Disagree: Applying a Logic-based Approach to Reconciling and Merging Multiple Taxonomies
Advisor: Bertram Ludäscher - M.A., Library and Information Science
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan (2013-2015)
Master’s thesis: Cheng, Y. –Y. (2015). A study on the best practice for constructing a cross-lingual geospatial information ontology (Master’s thesis, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan) (in Traditional Chinese).
Graduated with College Honors (GPA:4.22/4.3) - B.A., Library and Information Science
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan (2009-2013)
Minor in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Graduated with College Honors (GPA:4.24/4.3)
RESEARCH & INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCES
- iSchool, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research Assistant (Aug 2016—) - LEADS-4-NDP Program, Academy of Natural Sciences
Fellow (2019, 2020)
– Project: From Natural History Literature to Linked Open Data Biodiversity Knowledge Graph - WholeTale, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Summer Internship (2018)
– Project: Reproducibility Study in Biodiversity Informatics - Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Summer Research Assistant (2017)
– Project: Oxford-Illinois Digital Library Placement Program- Linked Data Digital Musicology Project - Department of Library and Information Science, National Taiwan University
Research Assistant (Aug 2015-Aug 2016)
– Project: Framework of a Semantic Web & Spatially-enabled Intelligent City - Taiwan Geographic Information System Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Research Assistant (Aug 2013- Aug 2014)
-Project: Multi-Agent Knowledge-Oriented Cyberinfrastucture Project (MAKOCI)
TEACHING EXPERIENCES
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Instructor of Record
– Course: Metadata in Theory & Practice, Summer 2021
-Lecture topics: different types of metadata (descriptive, administrative, provenance, etc), metadata interoperability, metadata harvesting, XML, oXygen, etc
Co-instructor
– Courses: Theory and Practice Data Cleaning, Spring 2020 (hybrid class), Fall 2020 (online)
-Lecture topics: developing use cases for cleaning, different types of datasets, Regular Expressions, OpenRefine, provenance and reproducibility
Graduate Teaching Assistant
– Courses:
– Theory and Practice Data Cleaning, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Summer 2020 (Coursera, 400+ students)
– Information Organization and Access, Spring 2021 - Full Day Workshop, IDCC 2020, iConference 2021
-Navigating through the Panoply of Provenance (PoP) Metadata Standards useful for Digital Curation
–workshop website - National Taiwan University
Graduate Teaching Assistant
– Courses: Introduction to Library Science, Fall, 2015; Special Topics on Digital Archives, Spring, 2015; Special Topics on Knowledge Organization, Fall, 2015
AWARDS & HONORS
- Beta Phi Mu Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 2021, Beta Phi Mu Honor Society
- Graduate Teacher Certificate, 2021, Illinois Center for Innovation Teaching & Learning
- Teacher Ranked as Excellent, 2020, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
- LEADS-4-NDP extended fellowship, 2020
- LEADS-4-NDP fellowship, 2019
- iSchool Student Travel Award, 2017, 2018, 2019
- ASIS&T Student Design Competition winner, 2018
– Project: ReTrackers: an automated and standardized solution to tracking retracted paper - NSF Student Travel Grant for US2TS 2018
- Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society Honorary Member of Taiwan, 2013, 2015
- Best Paper Award, 2015, Library Association of the Republic of China (Paper: Master’s thesis: A study on the best practice for constructing a cross-lingual geospatial information ontology)
- Outstanding Graduate Student Award, 2014, Chinese Association of Library & Information Science Education
- Presidential Award, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, National Taiwan University, ranked in the top 1% of the class
- Miss Mary Elizabeth Wood Award, 2010, Library Association of Taiwan
MEMBERSHIP
- Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T)
- International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO)
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
SERVICES
- Diversity and Inclusivity task force, LEADING
- Reviewer:
- ASIS&T: 2019, 2020
- iConference: 2018, 2019, 2020
- Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI): 2018, 2019
- Conference session chair:
- ASIS&T: 2021
- IDCC: 2020
- Organizer, iSchool Conceptual Foundations Group, 2017-now
- Vice Chair, UIUC ACM-Women Student Chapter, 2019-2020