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Research Areas


  • Artificial Intelligence and Informatics
  • Community Informatics
  • Crisis Management and Emergency Response
  • Cyberinfrastructure
  • Cyber Security and Privacy
  • Enterprise, Knowledge, and Process
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Globalization*
  • Health and Bio Informatics
  • Human Capital in Knowledge Society
  • Human Computer Interaction
  • Information and Image Fusion
  • Information Policy
  • Learning and Innovation
  • Psychology of Terrorism*
  • Social Impact and Social Inclusion
  • Social Network Analysis*
    *Indicates new research area

IST Research

IST Faculty with students in lab

IST engages in what NSF Director, Dr. Arden Bement, calls "transformative research." We define a new discipline, which is the movement of the iSchools, by:

  • Investigating information-centric research questions that have an impact to the real world
  • Integrating innovative ideas from multiple disciplines to influence the future of information technology
  • Shaping the contexts in which information and technology is used
  • Studying the impact of novel information technology on people

IST Faculty

Starting with five members in 1999, IST has grown into a diverse faculty of more than thirty at the University Park campus. Our scholarly community offers a breadth of research interests that impact every aspect of information technology. The college continues to add faculty members with rich, new areas of intellectual pursuit.

Quick Facts

Inter and Multi-Discipline Research

In addition to having expertise in many areas, including human-computer interaction, data mining and information retrieval, intelligent systems, the social and behavioral aspects of information technology, and many more, our faculty collaborate in projects across disciplines such as:
  • Health Informatics
  • Medical Informatics
  • Emergency Response
  • Enterprise Informatics
  • Globalization

Contacts

Research
email: research@ist.psu.edu phone: 814-865-6179