Vandana Singh
Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences
451 Communications Building, 1345 Circle Park Drive, Knoxville, TN, 37996 (email)
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Vandana Singh, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
University of Tennessee
School of Information Sciences
449 Communication Building
1345 Circle Park, Knoxville TN 37996
(865) 974-2785 email: vandana@utk.edu
EDUCATION
B.Sc. G.B. Pant University, Pantnagar, India Economics, 1998.
M.S. Wageningen University, the Netherlands, Knowledge Management Systems, 2001.
M.S. University of Chicago Computer Science, 2006.
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Library and Information Science, 2008.
AREAS OF INTEREST
Human Computer Interaction, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Open Source Software, Online Communities, Integrated Library Systems, Library & Information Sciences Education, User Experience, Usability, Bio-informatics
EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville August 2008 to date
Coordinator, Information Science and Technology Minor, School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville August 2008 to date
Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science, University of North Texas August 2007 to July 2008
Coordinator, Digital Imaging Track, School of Library and Information Science, University of North Texas August 2007 to July 2008
Instructor, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Academic year 2006-2007.
Research Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Academic year 2003-2004.
Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Academic year 2001-2002, 2002-2003, 2005-2006.
HONORS
Junior Faculty Fellow to Provost, nominated and selected by School of Information Sciences and College of Communication and Information, July 2010
Innovative Technology Award 2010, given by College of Communication and Information, University of Tennessee May 2010
Outstanding Assistant Professor for the year given by School of Information Sciences, College of Communication and Information, University of Tennessee, May 2010
Scholar of the Week, University of Tennessee, Week of 7/11/09.
Best Note of CSCW 2008 - Singh, V. and Twidale, M., “The Confusion of Crowds: non-dyadic help interactions” Short Paper Computer Supported Cooperative Work Conference, 2008.
Best research paper of the mini-track at Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences – 39 2006
Lucile-Huntington Fellowship by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at UIUC 2004-2005.
Dutch Government Fellowship for masters program Wageningen University (1999-2000)
First Female President of the International Students Organization at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. (2000)
National Debate Champion in India for two years (1996 & 1998)
President’s Award for Best Voluntary Worker of the State for National Service Scheme (1997)
PUBLICATIONS, GRANTS & PRESENTATIONS
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles Published
1- Mehra, B., Singh, V., & Parris, H. (2010). Open Source Software Collaborations in Tennessee’s Regional Library System: An Exploratory Study. Library Review, 59(9).
2- Payne, A. & Singh, V. (2010). Open Source Use in Libraries. Library Review 59(9).
3- Mehra, B., Black, K., Singh, V., Nolt, J. (2010). Collaboration between LIS Education and Rural Libraries in the Southern and Central Appalachia: Improving Librarian Technology Literacy and Management Training [Brief Communications and Research In Progress]. ALISE 2010 Conference Special Issue of the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 51(4)
4- Mehra, B., Black, K., Singh, V., Nolt, J. (2011). Collaboration between LIS Education and Rural Libraries in the Southern and Central Appalachia: Improving Librarian Technology Literacy and Management Training [Brief Communications and Research In Progress]. ALISE 2010 Conference Special Issue of the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 51(4).
Peer-reviewed Conference Proceedings
1. Singh, V., Johri, A. and Mitra, R. (2011) Types of Newcomers In An Online Developer Community. Proceedings, Computer Supported Cooperative Work 2011, (Shanghai, China), ACM, 2011
2. Mitra, R., Singh, V., and Johri A., (2011) Cyberlearning Ecosystem - Users, Technology and Tools. Proceedings, I-Conference, 2011, Seattle, Washington 2011
3. Singh, V. (2011) Technical Support for Open Source ILS, Presentation at Tennessee Library Association Conference 2011, Murfreesboro, TN, 2011
4. Mehra, B., Black, K., Singh, V., and Nolt, J. (2011). What is the Value of LIS Education? A Qualitative Analysis of the Perspectives of Rural Librarians in the Southern and Central Appalachia. 2011 ALISE Annual Conference: Competitiveness and Innovation, January 4-7, 2011, San Diego, CA.
5. Singh, V. (Moderator, Organizer and Presenter). Open Source Software Collaboration Efforts in Libraries and Library Education – ALISE 2010 Conference, January 11-15, 2010, Boston, Massachusetts.
6. Singh, V. (Presenter). (2010). Rural Library Professionals as Change Agents in the 21st Century: Integrating Information Technology Competencies in the Southern and Central Appalachian Region (ITRL) Phase I Planning and Recruitment [panel presentation]. Tennessee Library Association Annual Conference 2010: Marketing Matters, March 17-19, 2010, Memphis, Tennessee.
7. Singh, V. & Johri, A. (2010). Newcomer Particiption in Cyberlearning Environments: Lessons from Open Source Communities. National Science Foundation Engineering Education Programs Awardees Conference. January 31- February 2, 2010. Reston, Virginia.
8. Mehra, B., Black, K., Singh, V., Renfro, N., Reynolds, D., Simmons, S., & Williams, K. C. (2010). Rural Library Professionals as Change Agents in the 21st Century: Integrating Information Technology Competencies in the Southern and Central Appalachian Region. Tennessee Libraries.
9. Davis, M.L., Conger, M., Allard, S.A., Tenopir, C.T., and Singh, V. Increasing Biodiversity Information Sources (IBIS) for the Southern Appalachian Information Node (SAIN): Developing an Environmental Decision Making Matrix. University of Tennessee College of Communication and Information 32nd Annual Research Symposium, College of Communication and Information Auditorium on February 26, 2010, in Knoxville, Tennessee.
10. Singh, V. (2010) Comparison of Technical Support for Open Source Software and Proprietary Software. ASIS&T 73rd Annual Meeting: Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem, October 22-27, 2010, Pittsburgh, PA.
11. Singh, V., Twidale, M.B. and Nichols, D.M. “Users of Open Source Software: What are they contributing?” Hawaii International Conference on System Science (HICSS – 42), IEEE, January 2009.
12. Singh, V. and Twidale, M.B. “The Confusion of Crowds: non-dyadic help interactions” Proceedings, Computer Supported Cooperative Work 2008, (San Diego, CA, 2008), ACM .Winner of "Best Note of CSCW 2008" Award!
13. Rathi, D., Twidale, M. B., Singh, V. and Bisen, A. Users = Designers: A Participatory Approach in Designing Knowledge Management System, International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM), October 2008.
14. Singh, V., Modes of Technical Support in Open Source Software – Peer to Peer Digital Knowledge Creation, Sharing and Re-Use" Poster, ASIST 2008, Ohio, October 2008 .
15. Singh, V. "Open Help for Open Source: how a community shares technical help online" Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition, ALISE 2007,Seattle, Washington, January 15-19, 2007.
16. Rathi, D., Twidale, M. B. Singh, V. and Jones, M. C. "Your Mark is My Dirt: Impact of Email Signatures on Decision Making", 9th International Conference on Decision Support Systems, January 2-4, 2007 , India.
17. Singh, V., Twidale, M., Rathi, D., “Open Source Technical Support – A look at Peer Help Giving”. Hawaii International Conference on System Science (HICSS – 39), IEEE, January 2006. "Best Paper of the Mini-Track".
18. Rathi, D., Twidale, M., Singh, V. “Adapting Knowledge Management Systems for Collaborative Technical Problem Solving”. International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM), ASIST, October 2005.
19. Rathi, D., Singh, V., Gebauer, J., “Ubiquitous Computing for Knowledge Management.” Knowledge Sharing and Collaborative Engineering (KSCE 2004), IASTED, November 2004.
20. Jones, M. C., Medina, K. E., Rao, A., Rathi, D., Singh, V., “I-Vote: an audience voting system.” Student competition paper. CHI extended abstracts on human factors in computing systems, April 2004
21. Technical Report by TEC lab, Speech Communications. Contractor, N., Monge, P., Fulk, J. “Knowledge Networks and Distributed Intelligence” Brandon D., Dandi R., Huang, M., Palazzolo, E., Singh, V., Su, C. Presented to the Professional Development Workshop Academy of Management Seattle, Washington, August 2003.
GRANTS
Funded Grants
2008. Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board funded project “The Texas Course
Redesign Learning Object Repository: Research and Development for a Production
System”. V.Singh, Co-PI. Funds $250,000
2008. “Technical Support in Open Source Software – Peer to Peer Digital Knowledge
Creation, Sharing and Re-Use” Submitted to University of North Texas under Junior
Faculty Research Grant. ($10,000) V.Singh, PI
2009. IMLS Early Career Grant Comparison of Technical Support for Open Source vs
Proprietary Integrated Library Systems $321,178 V.Singh, PI
2009. NSF IEEE-Exploratory Grant Identifying Practices and Tools to Promote Newcomer
Participation in Cyberlearning Environments. V.Singh, PI
2009. IMLS Information Technology Competencies for Librarians IMLS Award Amount:
$567,660 Dr. Bharat Mehra,(PI), Dr. Kimberly Black and Dr. V. Singh, Co-PIs
2009. ScienceLinks2 PhD. Principal Investigator: Suzie Allard (SIS),Co-Principal
Investigators: Sally McMillan (Advertising/PR), and Carol Tenopir (SIS). Academic
Mentor V.Singh, L.Normore. Institute of Museum and Library Sciences. $711,727.
2009. Increasing Biodiversity Information Sources (IBIS) Principal Investigator: C. Tenopir. Co-Principal Investigators: S. Allard, L. Normore, V. Singh. USGS –National Biological Information Infrastructure. $498,518.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Courses taught at The University of Tennessee
IS585: Information Technologies Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009
IS567: Information Networking Application Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010
COURSES TAUGHT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS
SLIS Topics on Digital Imaging for Information Professional
COURSES TAUGHT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN
Undergraduate Courses
LIS 201 Information, Technology and Organizations
LIS 202 Social Aspects of Information Systems
LIS 210 Computing in the Humanities
LIS 290 Programming Web Mashups
Graduate Courses
LIS 310 Information, Organization and Access (on Campus and Online)
LIS 320 Libraries, Information and Society
Dissertation and Thesis Committees
Comps Committee:
Doctoral Student – Jason Rieger
Thesis Committee
James, Matthew Kirby
Dissertation Committees
Lei Wu
Chip Howley
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
1. Panelist for National Science Foundation Panel for Engineering Education Research proposals submitted to Area One of the Innovations in Engineering Education, Curriculum and Infrastructure (IEECI) announcement (NSF10-502). March 16-17, Washington D.C.
2. Mini-Track Co-chair for Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences – In this role I worked with other co-chairs to propose the mini-track, publicize the minitrack, solicit contributions, prepared a list of reviewers, organized the review process and wrote reviews and acceptance/rejection letters and will help in running the minitrack at the conference.
3. Reviewer for two mini-tracks in Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
4. Attended WebWise 2010 - Imagining the Digital Future - Conference on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World March 3-5, 2010 Colorado Convention Center Denver, Colorado
Other Professional Activities
Current member of:
1. American Society for Information Science & Technology
2. Association of Computing Machinery
3. Association of Library and Information Science Educators
4. Academy of Management
5. IEEE
6. TLA
UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL AND DEPARTMENT SERVICE
Coordinator Information Science and Technology Minor, UT School of Information Sciences, 2008-2009, 2009-2010, 2010-2011
Member Student Affairs Committee, UT School of Information Sciences, 2008- 2009, 2009- 2010, 2010-2011
Member Ad-hoc Students Chapter Committee for School Accreditation UT School of Information Sciences, 2008-2009
Member Comprehensive Examination, UT School of Information Sciences, Fall 2009, Summer 2010
Chair Comprehensive Examination, UT School of Information Sciences, Fall 2010
Member Undergraduate Affairs Committee, UT College of Communication & Information, 2008-2009, 2009-2010, 2010-2011
Member Convergence Lab Committee, College of Communication and Information University of Tennessee 2008-2009
Member Faculty Search Committee School of Information Sciences, 2009-2010
