Dr. Andrea Forte

Biography

Andrea Forte is the Dean of the School of Information at the University of Michigan. Her scholarship focuses on understanding wide-ranging features of online life, particularly how people collaborate and share information online. Forte's research group develops new tools and theoretical understandings to help build safer and more beneficial online experiences. She has held various academic roles since beginning her career in 2010, including assistant professor and associate department head. Forte is also the chair of the steering committee for the Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction and has received accolades including being named a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2021. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Language and Literature and Philosophy from Western Michigan University in 1996, followed by a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Texas in 1998 and a PhD in Human-Centered Computing from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2009.

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