Besiki Stvilia

Besiki Stvilia is a Professor in the School of Information at Florida State University's College of Communication and Information. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, along with an M.S. in Applied Mathematics from Tbilisi State University. His research focuses on data quality assurance, digital curation, social informatics, and knowledge organization. He has led projects on research data management, metadata frameworks, and collaborative data practices in scientific communities.

Stvilia has taught courses including LIS 6205 (Information Behavior), LIS 5263 (Information Retrieval Theory), and LIS 5787 (Metadata Practices). His funded research includes grants on data quality infrastructure for repositories, researcher identity curation, and mobile wellness application behavior studies. His work emphasizes bridging theoretical models with practical applications in digital libraries and academic systems.

His research spans topics like GenAI credibility assessment, ontology development for data repositories, and user engagement with social Q&A platforms. He has advised multiple collaborative projects involving interdisciplinary teams and has published extensively in journals like Journal of Documentation and Information Processing & Management.