Faculty

Seungwon Yang

Associate Professor

225-578-7411 | 223P Peabody Hall
seungwonyang@lsu.edu | www.lsu.edu/chse/sis/about-us/bios/yang.php

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Biography

Seungwon Yang is a Associate Professor with a joint position in the School of Information Studies and in the Center for Computation and Technology (CCT) at Louisiana State University. He received his PhD, MS, and BS degrees from the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. He aims to provide his students with opportunities to learn about foundational concepts and theories, as well as to gain practical hands-on skills using software tools. For research, he focuses on the topics of crisis informatics, social media, and machine/deep learning. He often collaborates with his colleagues in SLIS and CCT. Especially, he values synergy generated from working together with others when tackle bigger problems. For leisure time, he rides bicycles on the banks of Mississippi river in Baton Rouge, LA.

Courses Taught

LIS 3510 Foundations of Digital Information Organization

LIS 4513 Information Techniques for Social Media

LIS 4900 Fundamentals of Data Curation

LIS 7008 Information Technologies and Systems

LIS 7011 Information Behavior

LIS 7505 Introduction to Digital Curation

LIS 7808 Audio-Visual Technologies for Librarians

Research Areas

Crisis Informatics, Social Media, Machine/Deep Learning, Information Retrieval and Visualization.