Online Student Conference
The College of Information, Data and Society Online Student Research Conference seeks
to connect students across the college and promote student work. The conference allows
students to share their school or professional work, helps them communicate and connect
and fosters a stronger sense of community among students in the college. The Online Student Research Conference is organized annually by the College of IDS
RSCA Advisory Committee in collaboration with student organizers.
2025 Student ResearchConference:
March 4-6, 2025
The College of Information, Data and Society (College of IDS) is excited to announce the 2025 Online Student Research Conference, scheduled for March 4–6, 2025. This annual event is dedicated to connecting students across the college, promoting their scholarly and professional work, and fostering a vibrant community of emerging scholars.
All student presentations will be available on the conference website throughout the event. Engage with the content at your convenience and connect with presenters through provided discussion forums.
Student Presentations
Explore a diverse array of pre-recorded video presentations, complete with captioning, available exclusively on the conference website. These presentations showcase the innovative research and projects undertaken by students (graduate and undergraduate) from the SJSU School of Information and the Department of Applied Data Science.
All student presentations will be available on the conference website throughout the event. Engage with the content at your convenience and connect with presenters through provided discussion forums.
Live Opening Keynote Session
Thriving in an AI-Driven Professional Environment: Skills for Success in a Changing World
March 4, 2025, 12 - 1 PM (Pacific)
Speaker: Dr. Leo Lo
Discover how to harness the power of AI to enhance your career and research. Dr. Leo
Lo will explore the essential skills needed to thrive in an AI-driven workplace, from
leveraging AI tools for innovation to addressing ethical challenges. This session
will empower you with practical strategies and insights to stay competitive, adaptable,
and ahead of the curve in a rapidly evolving technological landscape.
Bio: Dr. Leo Lo is the Dean and Professor of the College of University Libraries & Learning Sciences at the University of New Mexico. A recognized leader in AI literacy and workforce development, Dr. Lo focuses on empowering library and higher education professionals through innovative training programs. As President of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), he spearheaded a national task force to develop comprehensive AI competencies. Dr. Lo studied Artificial Intelligence at the University of Oxford and holds a doctorate in Higher Education Management from the University of Pennsylvania, along with an MS in Information Studies from Florida State University.
Live Closing Keynote Session
Public Art Offers Digital Humanities a Chance to be Part of the Resistance
March 6, 2025, 12 - 1 PM (Pacific Time)
Speaker: Dr. Katherine D. Harris
Public art lives all over downtown San José, a city in the San Francisco Bay Area
that is arguably becoming the “heart” of Silicon Valley. The public art exists on
the sides of buildings, within public courtyards, behind gates in the community garden,
and out in the open at cross-streets. People walk by this public art often without
giving it a second thought primarily because there’s no single space to tell their
history – with almost all of them representing diverse communities of San José and
their staunch resistance to Silicon Valley assimilation. A team of faculty and students
from the College of Humanities & the Arts at San José State University created the
Public Art as Resistance in San José project that focuses on a walking tour of 12 of those public works of art that has
become a successful community engagement connector between the university and different
agencies in San José. Because of the nature of wavering funding, as a Digital Humanist
and experienced project manager, I was keenly aware of the need for creating a sustainable
digital footprint and embedding an ethics of (digital) care for the local artists
who created these works. With attention to issues such as data privacy and intellectual
property rights, we collaboratively created the digital story of 12 public works of
art and their representative resistance in a way that’s valuable for all parties,
including future users of the materials. In this way Digital Humanities becomes part
of the resistance – resistance against the belief that public art is ephemeral, according
to the developers who are knocking down buildings without thinking about preservation
of these representations of resistance. This presentation focuses on the digital interventions
inherent to this collaborative project that aided in preserving the voices of those
diverse communities: https://www.sjsu.edu/ha-public-art-tour/about/
Bio: Katherine D. Harris is Director of Public Programming, College of Humanities & the Arts and Professor of Literature & Digital Humanities at San José State University (SJSU). She teaches and publishes about literature and technology. After publishing her monograph Forget Me Not: The Rise of the British Literary Annual, a digital edition of 19th-century periodicals, and a print edition focusing on British 19th-century literary annuals and women’s voices, she co-edited the award-winning un-book, Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities. She is the architect of the existing H&A in Action initiative in the College of Humanities & the Arts and is responsible for fostering cross-disciplinary programming and community engagement all across SJSU. She is the project investigator on the DH@CSU initiative to build a Digital Humanities consortium across all 23 Cal State campuses funded by the Mellon Foundation and the Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium and is involved in spearheading the new H&A center, Advanced Institute for Ethical Technologies which is currently focusing on the speeding development of artificial intelligence. Her work with community engagement has garnered several grants for the Public Art as Resistance in San José project and allowed her to explore the field of Public Humanities. You can find her as @triproftri on BlueSky or visit her WordPress site.
