Katy Borner:Biography

 

Name: Katy Börner

Title: Victor H. Yngve Associate Professor

Organization: Indiana University

Email: katy@indiana.edu

Address:

Katy Borner, Victor H. Yngve Associate Professor of Information Science
Director of the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center
School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University

10th Street & Jordan Avenue   
Wells Library 021            
Bloomington, IN 47405, USA    

Phone Number: Phone:  (812) 855-3256

 

Katy Börner is the Victor H. Yngve Associate Professor of Information Science at the School of Library and Information Science, Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Informatics, Core Faculty of Cognitive Science, Research Affiliate of the Biocomplexity Institute, Fellow of the Center for Research on Learning and Technology, Member of the Advanced Visualization Laboratory, and Founding Director of the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University.
She is a curator of the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit, http://scimaps.org.

Her research focuses on the development of data analysis and visualization techniques for information access, understanding, and management. She is particularly interested in the study of the structure and evolution of scientific disciplines; the analysis and visualization of online activity; and the development of cyberinfrastructures for large scale scientific collaboration and computation.

She is the co-editor of the Springer book on ‘Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries’ and of a special issue of PNAS 101 (Suppl. 1) on 'Mapping Knowledge Domains' published in April 2004. She also co-edited a special issue on ‘Collaborative Information Visualization Environments’ in PRESENCE: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, MIT Press (Feb. 2005), ‘Information Visualization Interfaces for Retrieval and Analysis’ in the Journal of Digital Libraries (March 2005), and ‘Mapping Humanity’s Knowledge’ in Environment and Planning B (Sept 2007). Her new book ‘Atlas of Science: Guiding the Navigation and Management of Scholarly Knowledge’ published by ESRI will become available end of 2008.

She and her colleagues at the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center serve the
• Scholarly Database of 18 million scholarly records, https://sdb.slis.indiana.edu
• Information Visualization Cyberinfrastructure, http://iv.slis.indiana.edu
• Network Workbench Tool and Community Wiki, http://nwb.slis.indiana.edu

For more information on her research agenda, teaching, and other activities, visit:
http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy/