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SI SpotlightMatthew Bietz (MSI '99, Ph.D. '08)
"One of the great things about the School of Information is that it's possible to get a lot of practical experience at the same time that you're doing your book-learnin'."
E-mail Matthew
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Before SI: Earned undergrad degrees in English and cello performance and a master's in historical musicology.
At SI: While an MSI student, Matt developed multimedia presentations for K-12 schools and museums, working with SI's Cultural Heritage Initiative for Community Outreach (CHICO) on the Detroit Timeline Project, the African-American Curriculum Project, and the Instrument Encyclopedia. Co-developed a prototype for a search engine interface (see a Shockwave demo) as an Information Visualization project. He served as an executive board member of the Lavender Information and Library Association. He also was an intern at Microsoft.
After SI: Now is a post-doctoral researcher at the Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California-Irvine. He is studying collaboration in the development of cyberinfrastructure.
During his second year in the MSI program, Matt applied to and was accepted into the SI doctoral program. He completed the degree program and successfully defended his dissertation in 2008 on "Interactivity and Electronic Communication: An Experimental Study of Mediated Feedback."
His research focused on how scientists build and maintain relationships, mentor students, and interact in international research projects. That work was part of the International AIDS Research Collaboratory and the Science of Collaboratories project.
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