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Hello, and welcome to my website. I am Yuanxi Fu (傅元曦), a doctoral student in Information Science at the School of Information Sciences, UIUC [school page]. Rosa was originally my Starbucks name, but it has grown on me, so feel free to call me Rosa as well. I made a career transition from chemistry to information science in 2019. After successfully defending my dissertation proposal, I am now on my way to receive a second PhD, this time in information science, which I expect to complete in 2027. You can view my CV here.

I am interested in reasoning and argumentation, particularly their applications to information management. I am also deeply interested in the ethics of knowledge. In my second life as an information scientist, I have been fortunate to be mentored by many brilliant and generous scholars in information science, argumentation studies, philosphy, causal machine learning, and natural language processing. My dissertation, Unreliability Propagation in Science: Conceptual Foundations and Mitigation Measures, investigates how we can theoretically and computationally construct justifications concerning whether a knowledge product that depends on unreliable sources should be scrutinized or sanctioned. I am now on the job market and excited about the next chapter of my life.