Faculty
The School of Information Sciences is home to 36 faculty members whose expertise ranges from wireless security and Web semantics to cyber-scholarship and record-keeping systems. As of the fall 2011 semester, the School also had 27 adjunct faculty and eight teachers with joint appointments from fields as diverse as pathology, medicine and business.
The chair of the Undergraduate program is Robert Perkoski.
The chair of the Graduate Information Science program is Peter Brusilovsky.
The chair of the Library and Information Science program is Sheila Corrall.
The chair of the Telecommunications program is David Tipper.
Some of the School’s more veteran academics – professors such as Roger Flynn, Michael Spring, Michael Lewis, Richard Cox and Stephen Hirtle – have been with the department for two decades or more.
Dean Ronald L. Larsen joined the School after having previously served as executive director of the Maryland Applied Information Technology Initiative and deputy director of the Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab. Before entering academia, Larsen had a nearly 20-year career as a mathematician, technologist and researcher for NASA.
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