Teaching

Teaching Experience

University of South Carolina

  • Data Visualization (ISCI 560). Instructor. Graduate Students. School of Information Science. Fall 2022 to present. Online.
  • Visualization Tools (CSCE 567). Instructor. Graduate Students. Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Spring 2022. Face-to-Face.
  • Research Design and Evaluation (ISCI 705). Instructor. Graduate Students. School of Information Science. Fall 2018 to present. Online.
  • Information and Society (ISCI 803). Instructor. PhD Course. School of Information Science. Spring 2019. Face-to-Face.
  • Communication Processes and Information Seeking Behavior (ISCI 806). Instructor. PhD Course. School of Information Science. Fall 2018. Face-to-Face.
  • Information Organization and Access (ISCI 706). Instructor. Graduate Students. School of Information Science. Spring 2021 to present. Online.
  • Information Organization and Retrieval (ISCI 707). Instructor. Graduate Students. School of Information Science. Summer 2018 to 2020. Online.
  • Communication and Information Transfer (ISCI 420). Instructor. Undergraduate Students. School of Information Science. Spring 2018 to present. Face-to-Face.
  • Management in Data-driven Organizations (ISCI 402). Instructor. Undergraduate Students. School of Information Science. Spring 2018 to present. Face-to-Face.
  • Digital Information Infrastructure (ISCI 435). Instructor. Undergraduate Students. School of Information Science. Fall 2017. Face-to-Face.

University of Wolverhampton

  • Introduction to Data Analytics. Invited Lecturer. Postgraduate Students. School of Mathematics and Computing. Fall 2014; Winter 2013; Winter 2012. Face-to-Face.
  • Research Methods in Information Science. Invited Lecturer. Postgraduate Students. School of Mathematics and Computing. Winter 2015; Winter 2014; Winter 2012. Face-to-Face.

Course and Curriculum Development

  • PhD Curriculum Redesign. School of Information Science, University of South Carolina. 2025 to present.
  • Redesigned Technical Course Sequence for the Undergraduate Program. School of Information Science, University of South Carolina. 2024 to 2025.
  • User Experience (UX) Design. Minor Curriculum. School of Information Science, University of South Carolina. 2022.
  • Data Visualization. Undergraduate in-person course. School of Information Science, University of South Carolina. 2020.
  • Management in Data-driven Organizations. Undergraduate in-person course. School of Information Science, University of South Carolina. 2020.
  • Research Design and Evaluation. Masters online course. School of Information Science, University of South Carolina. Fall 2018 to present.
  • Information and Society. Doctoral in-person course. School of Information Science, University of South Carolina. 2020.
  • Communication Processes and Information Seeking Behavior. Doctoral in-person course. School of Information Science, University of South Carolina. 2018.

Mentorship and Supervising

Dissertation advisor

  • Advisor. PhD Dissertation. Kalantari, A. Exploring the impact of mindfulness-enhanced self-tracking applications on menstrual health and well-being. School of Information Science. USA. 2024 to present.
  • Advisor. PhD Dissertation. Borji, S. Identifying bias and unfairness in computer vision systems for medical image analysis. School of Information Science. USA. 2023 to present.

Dissertation and thesis committee

  • Member of committee. PhD Dissertation. Lookingbill, V. Users’ interactions with non-suicidal self-injury information and how users navigate these factors on social media platforms. School of Information Science. USA. 2020 to 2025.
  • Member of committee. PhD Dissertation. Salahirad, A. The state of the art of software testing research and quantitative analysis of mutation testing with some suggestions for automated test generation. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina. USA. 2019 to 2023.
  • Member of committee. PhD Dissertation. Tahamtan, I. What moves public opinion on COVID-19? A framing study on community-generated hashtags. School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee at Knoxville. USA. 2020 to 2021.
  • Member of committee. Master’s thesis. Rasti, P. Assessing the value of applied research via Altmetric: Scientific nursing publications as a case study. Library and Information Science Department, Isfahan University. Isfahan, Iran. 2015 to 2016.
  • Member of committee. Master’s thesis. Mehrabi, R. A comparative analysis of scientometric indicators for Iranian medical science journals indexed in Scopus and ISI Web of Science. Library and Information Science Department. Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. Tehran, Iran. 2014 to 2015.

Independent research

  • Alireza Salahirad. PhD Student. Computer Science.
  • Chinwendu Akalonu. PhD Student. Communication Science.
  • Valerie Lookingbill. PhD Student. Information Science.
  • Samaneh Borji. PhD Student. Information Science.
  • Ali Alajmi. PhD Student. Communication Science.
  • Kimanh Le. PhD Student. Public Health.
  • Yizhou Cai. PhD Student. Statistics.
  • Dalton Bickford. PhD Student. Computer Science.
  • Jiaxuan Zhang. PhD Student. Information Science.
  • Taylor Collier. Master’s Student. Library and Information Science.