Research Roundup

University of Michigan School of Information faculty and PhD students are creating and sharing knowledge that helps build a better world. Here are some of their recent publications.

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1st Paper Friday. Haobo Zhang. PhD Student. Unraveling LoRA Interference: Orthogonal Subspaces for Robust Model Merging. 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

First Paper Friday: Haobo Zhang

07/11/2025

Zhang’s first paper as a UMSI PhD student tackles a major challenge in large language model efficiency.

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Fewer women amplify their scientific voices online

07/09/2025

A new paper from UMSI researchers Daniel Romero and Misha Teplitskiy finds that women are about 28% less likely than men to promote their scientific papers on X (formerly Twitter).

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UMSI Research. Different Norms of Sexual Activity and Consent Seeking Among College Students: Social Identity and Statistical Discrimination." Hanna Hoover, Lecturer. Erin Krupka, Professor.

When identity shapes the norm: How college students perceive consent and social appropriateness

07/07/2025

New research by UMSI lecturer and research investigator Hanna Hoover and UMSI professor Erin Krupka reveals how social identity and statistical discrimination affect perceptions of sexual behavior on college campuses.

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UMSI Research Roundup. ACM FAccT Conference. Check out UMSI faculty and PhD student publications.

ACM FAccT 2025: UMSI Research Roundup

06/24/2025

UMSI research and workshops for the 2025 FAcct conference.

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UMSI Reearch Roundup. Social Identity, Digital Divide Dynamics. Techno-Mediated Justice. Check out UMSI faculty and PhD student publications.

Social Identity | Digital Divide Dynamics | Techno-Mediated Justice: UMSI Research Roundup

06/09/2025

Recent UMSI faculty and PhD student publications.

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UMSI Research Roundup. Focus on AI. Literacy, emotional Intimacy. Gender Role Congruity. Check out UMSI faculty and PhD student publications.

Focus on AI: AI Literacy | Emotional Intimacy | Gender Role Congruity

06/09/2025

UMSI research on artificial intelligence.

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UMSI Research. Beyond Language Translation. Asian Americans, News and and Information Seeking, and the Circulation of Problematic Narratives Online. Matt Bui. Assistant Professor.

Beyond Language: How culture, context and misinformation shape Asian American experiences online

06/03/2025

New research by UMSI assistant professor Matthew Bui highlights how misinformation uniquely impacts diverse Asian American communities and why language translation alone isn’t enough.

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UMSI Research. Evaluating Interdisciplinary Research: Disparate Outcomes for topic and knowledge base. Sidney Xiang, PhD Candidate. Daniel Romero, Associate Professor. Misha Teplitskiy, Assistant Professor.

Study: Does interdisciplinarity pay off? Interdisciplinary knowledge, not topics, associated with publication success

05/21/2025

UMSI researchers find that interdisciplinary research is more likely to succeed when it draws from diverse knowledge, but faces setbacks if its presentation crosses disciplinary lines.

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National Science Foundation. Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Project. Allegra G. Fonda-Bonardi. Doctoral Candidate.

Allegra G. Fonda-Bonardi earns prestigious National Science Foundation grant

05/16/2025

Fonda-Bonardi’s project will explore the impact of AI on the government's ability to assess the environmental and societal impact of businesses.

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Feeling unheard: Marginalized voices ring out against emotion AI

04/30/2025

A new study by UMSI assistant professor Nazanin Andalibi and UMSI research fellow Alexis Shore Ingber reveals that technology claiming to read human emotions elicits widespread discomfort, especially among marginalized communities, raising serious concerns about privacy and ethics.

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