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Dr. Hengyi Fu is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information, San José State University, a position she has held since 2025. Prior to joining SJSU, she was a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alabama, from 2019 to 2025, where she successfully passed the provost probationary review. She holds a Ph.D. in Information from Florida State University (2019), an M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2013), and a B.S. in Management Information Systems from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (2009).
- Institution: San José State University
- School: School of Information
- Rank: Assistant Professor
Dr. Fu's research is centered on socio-technical systems, particularly in the domains of online peer production (e.g., Wikipedia, Stack Exchange), health informatics, and human-computer interaction. She employs a multidisciplinary approach combining social science theories, quantitative and qualitative methods, and computational techniques to enhance information access and community wellbeing. Her work explores community governance, policy design, automation in knowledge curation, health disparities, and digital health information-seeking behaviors, including comparative studies of AI versus human-generated health communication.
Her teaching experience is extensive, covering both online and in-person instruction at undergraduate and graduate levels, with a focus on Human-Computer Interaction, Social Computing, Health Informatics, and AI applications in information science. She currently teaches INFO 287: Seminar in Information Science with a focus on Generative AI Prompt Engineering for Librarians.
There are no listed scientific awards, publications, or advisees in the provided text. Dr. Fu is actively engaged in research and teaching, with no indication of retirement or part-time status. She is not a former staff member at her current institution.
