Learning From Your Elders

I choose to do this blog entry about Mimi Zhang who works with Dr. Jansen. She is originally from China and has a Bachelor of Management, in Information Management and Information Systems from Hefei University of Technology in China and a Master of Science in Information and Knowledge Management from Loughborough University in the UK. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in IST at Penn State.  She came to IST in 2005. She does not have a dissertation topic yet. Her research interests are in human-computer interaction (HCI), computer-mediated communication (CMC), cognitive psychology, e-commerce, transaction log analysis, and experimental design. She is specifically interested in information seeking behavior and applying theories from multiple disciplines to gain a better understanding of users and advance the theoretical framework. She focuses on both theoretical and empirical aspects of how people search and has been involved in many different types of user studies. Mimi has one journal paper with two other journal papers in progress or being reviewed. In addition she has published several conference and workshop papers and presented several posters. Please see her personal website (http://www.personal.psu.edu/mxz178/index.html) for more information as most of the information in the posting was taken from there.