Dr. Andrea Wiggins
Lab Director
Andrea studies infrastructures supporting open knowledge, focusing on citizen science and data management practices. She enjoys learning more about science by studying projects that involve members of the public in real-world scientific research.
Dr. Alyson Young
Research Associate
Alyson is a postdoctoral researcher studying scientific cyberinfrastructure, data sharing, and data use. Her dissertation focused on understanding research practices in the emergent interdiscipline of land change science.
Yurong He
Research Assistant
Yurong is a doctoral candidate in the UMD iSchool, where she studies social and technological issues related to information sharing. Her dissertation focuses on the processes and challenges of collaborative data sharing among scientific and public communities.
Jonathan Brier
Research Assistant
Jonathan is a PhD student at the iSchool studying social computing applications in citizen science.
Brenna McNally
Research Affiliate
Brenna is a UX Designer and a PhD student in Human-Computer Interaction at the UMD iSchool, where she researches ways mobile devices can promote learning opportunities.
Snigdha Petluru
Research Affiliate
Snigdha is a MIM student at the UMD iSchool. She is interested in the analysis of open data to detect user behaviors and understand their relative impacts on decisions.