Speaker Bio

Tingting Jiang

Tingting Jiang is a third-year Ph.D. student at the School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh. She began to study information architecture as an undergraduate student and continued to pursue her academic interests during her master’s degree which resulted in a thesis entitled Evaluating the Information Architecture of University Websites. Her current professional experience includes working as a public reference service assistant for the University of Pittsburgh Library System where her responsibilities are offering direction in online search and digital library use, among others. These combine with her doctoral research that focuses on exploratory search and information architecture. She has a teaching background with experience in the graduate-level course Information Architecture, taught by Dr. Sherry Koshman, her dissertation advisor.