Jodi Schneider

Jodi Schneider is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, with affiliate appointments at the Beckman Institute, Health Care Engineering Systems Center, European Union Center, and Center for Health Informatics. She directs the Information Quality Lab and focuses on the science of science through argumentation and evidence analysis.

• PhD in Informatics (National University of Ireland, Galway)
• M.S. in Library and Information Science (UIUC)
• M.A. in Mathematics (UT-Austin)
• B.A. in Liberal Arts (St. John's College)

Her research examines how scientific controversies persist through citation patterns, the role of knowledge brokers in public policy, and information quality in biomedical contexts. She has developed semantic frameworks for micropublications and knowledge maintenance in digital libraries.

Recent publications include citation integrity studies in Scientometrics, retraction indexing in STI Conference, and argumentation mining in Human Language Technologies. Collaborative projects span institutions like Harvard Radcliffe Institute and RWTH Aachen.

• NSF CAREER Award
• IMLS Early Career Award
• Senior Member, Association of Computing Machinery
• Marie Curie Fellow

She advises graduate students in information quality and knowledge representation, with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, NIH, and European Commission. Her lab develops tools to combat scientific misinformation and improve public health informatics.