Faculty

Dr. Muhammad Abdul-Mageed publishes article in Nature Communications

Dr. Muhammad Abdul-Mageed publishes article on a deep learning model for de novo peptide sequencing

Congratulations to Associate Professor Muhammad Abdul-Mageed for co-authoring an article that has been published in Nature Communications! The article, “π-PrimeNovo: an accurate and efficient non-autoregressive deep learning model for de novo peptide sequencing” introduces π-PrimeNovo, a non-autoregressive Transformer-based model for peptide sequencing.

Adjunct Spotlight: Eugene Barsky

Meet Eugene Barsky, who is teaching LIBR 559S/ARST 556K Research Data Management for Information Professionals this term! Where do you work outside of teaching at UBC iSchool, and how do you bring your professional experiences/expertise into the classroom? I have been very fortunate to work in the UBC Library for the last twenty years. The […]

Adjunct Spotlight: Trevor Smith

Meet Trevor Smith (he/him), who is teaching LIBR 574 Project Management in Information Organizations this term! Where do you work outside of teaching at UBC iSchool, and how do you bring your professional experiences/expertise into the classroom? I am the Monograph Acquisitions Librarian at Douglas College, and formerly the Metadata Librarian as well. I also […]

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Dr. Victoria Lemieux on the City of Vancouver’s Bitcoin motion

Dr. Victoria Lemieux quoted in CBC article on Internet Archive cyberattack

Adjunct Spotlight: Dan Farrell. Archival Studies (A.R.S.T.) 517 History of Recordkeeping.

Adjunct Faculty Spotlight: Dan Farrell

Meet Dan Farrell (he/him), a UBC iSchool adjunct professor who is teaching ARST 517 History of Recordkeeping this academic year during Winter Term 2 (January to April 2025)! Where do you work outside of teaching at the UBC iSchool, and how do you bring your professional experiences/expertise into the classroom? I recently retired after 15+ years […]

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Welcome Dr. Alexander Ross to the UBC School of Information!

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Alexander Ross will be joining the UBC School of Information in January 2025 as an Assistant Professor in Indigenous Information Studies. Dr. Ross completed his PhD at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information. He is a critical communications scholar, focusing on the political economy of communication, contingent […]