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My Research Team
You Peng
PhD student in Information Sciences at UIUC (since 2025)
You received his B.S. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech and his M.S. in Information Management from UIUC iSchool. He joined my group in 2025 and currently serves as a Research Assistant on the IMLS CAREER project. Together, we currently work on AI-enhanced digital libraries to improve the accessibility of poetry collections, develop annotation tools and viewers for better annotation practices, and analyze the mood and themes of poetry across multicultural groups, among other topics.
William Sideri
PhD student in Information Sciences at UIUC (since 2025)
Will earned his B.A. in English Language and Literature from Colby College and his M.A. in Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia from the University of Chicago. He joined my group in 2025 and currently serves as a Research Assistant on the IMLS CAREER project. Together, we are currently examining Shakespeare’s works from a classification perspective, including questions around the definition and ambiguity of author-annotated labels. We are also interested in exploring the relationship between punctuation in poetry and other aspects such as poetic prosody.