The College of Information, Data and Society (CIDS)’s 2025 Online Student Research Conference will held March 4-6, 2025. The Conference seeks to connect students across the college and promote student work and aims to provide an opportunity for CIDS students to share their school or professional work, help students communicate and connect with each other, and ultimately foster a stronger sense of community among students.
View Student Presentations on Conference Website
All student presentations are pre-recorded videos with captioning that are viewable here on the conference website.
Live Opening & Closing Sessions
Webinar link for both sessions: https://sjsu.zoom.us/j/86962576183
Opening Session: March 4, 2025, 12:00-1:00 pm (Pacific)
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Leo Lo
Title: “Thriving in an AI-Driven Professional Environment: Skills for Success in a Changing World”
Description: 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.
Closing Session: March 6, 2025, 12:00-1:00 pm (Pacific)
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Katherine D. Harris
Title: “Public Art Offers Digital Humanities a Chance to be Part of the Resistance”
Description: Public art lives all over downtown San Jose, 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 Jose and their staunch resistance to Silicon Valley assimilation. A team of faculty and students from the College of Humanities & the Arts at San Jose State University created the “Public Art as Resistance in San Jose” 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 Jose. 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.
