Lab Director
Jessie Chin
Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences (iSchool)
I am a translational cognitive scientist with multidisciplinary research training in cognitive science, human factors, human-computer interaction and health informatics. These experiences enrich my research spectrum to approach research questions systematically by conducting (a) applied research: to understand the human behavior in the context (e.g., user study, cohort study); (b) use-inspired basic research: to model the fundamental mechanism of interactive human behavior in the complex environments (e.g., experimentation, predictive modeling); and (c) translational and intervention research: to develop both theory-grounded and pragmatic intervention and to validate its feasibility, acceptability, efficacy and effectiveness on human behavior and health (e.g., randomized controlled trial study).
The overarching goals of our research programs are (a) to advance our understandings about how human minds across the lifespan adapt to the complex information environments through information search and uptake; (b) to translate the findings in (a) to design information technologies that support complex cognitive activities (such as learning and decision-making); and (c) to apply the findings in (b) to develop sociotechnical solutions for health promotion and addressing health disparities.
Email: chin5@illinois.edu
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jessie_Chin
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=DvYvHnUAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Current Students
Graduate Students
Smit A. Desai
PhD Candidate in Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Current Projects:
Tre Tomaszewski
PhD Student in Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Current Projects:
Michelle (Chaewon) Bak
PhD Student in Information Sciences
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research interests:
Health misinformation, digital mental health, precision medicine
Current Projects:
- Identifying False HPV-Vaccine Information and Modeling Its Impact on Risk Perceptions
- Building a generalized model of misinformation growth in social media
- Bridging digital phenotype and behavioral promotion models to address evolving needs across the cancer continuum
- Developing a motivational-interview agent to promote COVID-19 vaccine uptake
- Development of a Chatbot for Delivering Long-Term Motivational Interviewing for Improving Exercise Adherence in Hemodialysis Patients
- Evidence identifying and foraging in domain-specific decision-making (medical and judgment systems)
Morgan Lundy
PhD Candidate in Information Sciences
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Research interests:
Health informatics, social informatics, micro-video social media, online health communities, and disability, women’s and LGBTQIA+ health advocacy
Current Projects:
Philo (Jiaqi) Wang
MS student in Library and Information Sciences
Research interests:
Educational games, cognitive agents
Current Projects:
Designing educational games for learning how to do misinformation verification
Precious Olalere
MS student in Library and Information Sciences
Research interests:
Health literacy, health information seeking, health equity
Current Projects:
Co-design large language models for health information seeking
Undergraduate Students
Alumni
Graduate Students
Lixcy Vega
MS Student in Library and Information Sciences
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Project: Exploring the Design of Sociotechnical Solutions for the People with Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms
Caywin Zhuang
MD Student in Carle Illinois College of Medicine
Projects:
Sheny Lin
MS in Information Management, 2023
Projects:
Conversational agents, search for learning
YuWei Lai
MS in Information Management, 2022 (First position after graduation: Delta Electronics)
Projects:
Information exchange, Cognitive games
Graduated with Faculty Special Award of Merit
Abhisha Tarimane
MS in Information Management, 2023 (First position after graduation: Deloitte)
Projects:
Cognitive games
Abhinav Reddy Thimma
Master of Computer Sciences, 2023 (First position after graduation: Bloomberg)
Projects:
Digital health, information exchange
Wen-Yuh Su
Master program in Computer Science
University of Illinois at Chicago
Sakshi Panday
MS, Computer Science, 2019
University of Illinois at Chicago
Current Position: Software Engineer, Amazon
Eileen M. Lopez
MS, Library and Information Science, 2020
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Shashi Roshan
MS Student in Statistics, 2020
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Undergraduate Students
Mia X. Smith
Research Interests: I-health and informatics.
Current Projects:
Ben Tsai
BS student in Information Sciences
Current Projects:
Bridging digital phenotype and behavioral promotion models to address evolving needs across the cancer continuum
Vaishnavi Myadam
BS in Statistics and Computer Science
Minor in Mathematics
Sizhi Tan
BS Program in Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lauryn Praet
Interdisciplinary Health Sciences
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Anoosheh Ghazanfari
BS, Applied Psychology, 2019
University of Illinois at Chicago
Current Position: Master Student of Information, University of Toronto (Fall 2019)
Ana S. Ongtengco
BS Student in Mathematics
University of Illinois at Chicago
Current Position: Doctoral Program of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago (Fall 2020)
Kevin Roy
University of Illinois at Chicago
Current Position: Doctoral Program of Osteopathic Medicine, Midwestern University (Fall 2020)
Liang Zhang
BS Student in Nursing
University of Illinois at Chicago