Dr. Luanne Sinnamon

Biography

Luanne Sinnamon is a Professor and Director at the University of British Columbia's iSchool, where she has been involved in teaching and research focused on the human-centered aspects of information retrieval. Her academic work aims to explore the ways people interact with and make sense of digital information. Sinnamon has been a principal investigator on several SSHRC and NSERC funded research projects, and she has served as an Associate Editor for Information Processing & Management from 2017 to 2019. She has published extensively in areas such as interactive information retrieval, open data, and information access, contributing to significant events in the field including serving as General Chair for the ASIS&T 2018 Annual Meeting and Co-Chair for the ACM CHIIR 2020. She holds a PhD from the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto and multiple degrees from prestigious universities, including a Master's in Library Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Bachelor's degree from the University of Toronto. Her teaching includes courses on information retrieval and information services, contributing to the development of future professionals in the discipline.

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