Padmini Srinivasan - Coordinator, Information Science Informatics Subtrack

Padmini Srinivasan, Ph.D., is Professor of the University of Iowa's School of Library Information Science, Department of Management Science, Computer Science Department (Courtesy), and College of Nursing (Courtesy). Srinivasan, who is also a Research Fellow in the Henry B. Tippie College of Business, joined the University of Iowa in 1989.
Professor Srinivasan earned an M.S. (Hons) in Biological Sciences from Birla Institute of Technology and Science in 1978 and her Ph.D. in Information Studies from Syracuse University in 1985. Since her appointment, Professor Srinivasan has been instrumental in the award of several grants to the SLIS, including close to $1M to recruit and train 20 students in the area of digital librarianship. She was also the recipient of the prestigious Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
Her research interests include text mining, web mining, topical crawlers, text categorization, information filtering, and formal models for information retrieval (with special emphasis on biomedical applications).