Jian Qin

Jian Qin is Professor of the iSchool at Syracuse University. She conducts research in metadata, knowledge modeling and representation, ontologies, research collaboration networks, research impact assessment, and data curation. Jian Qin directs a Metadata Lab, a research group focusing on big metadata analytics and knowledge modeling. Her research has received funding from US NSF, NIH, IMLS, among others. She publishes widely with more than 100 journal and conference papers in the field of information science, scientometrics, knowledge organization, and metadata, and has been invited to give keynotes, lectures, and presentations at conferences and institutions inside and outside of the U.S. She is the co-author of the book Metadata and co-editor for several special journal issues on knowledge discovery in databases and knowledge representation. Jian Qin has served as the DCMI conference program chair and track chair and as a member/chair of numerous other conference program committees, including ASIST, iConference, JCDL, among others. She received the 2020 Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology. Jian Qin holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Further information can be found at https://ischool.syr.edu/jian-qin/. A complete copy of CV can be found from https://jianqin.metadataetc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Qin_CV.pdf.