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. 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. I am now on my way to receive a second PhD, this time in information science, which I expect to complete in 2027.
My inquiry centers on the problem of Reasoning as Data. I study how reasoning can be recovered or transformed into data and used as evidence or subjected to computational analysis. I combine conceptual inquiry with computational methods in my work, with the aim of supporting a future in which knowledge will be co-created by humans and AI.
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It took me a while to find myself. In the end, I came to recognize that my interests lie in reasoning and argumentation, and that I am a deeply conceptual person, fascinated by how we can structure and represent the physical world in the digital world. And I finally find my home in information science.
I owe much to the iSchool at U of I for helping me find my way. There, I was fortunate to be mentored by generous and brilliant scholars in theoretical information science, argumentation studies, philosophy, science and technology studies, machine learning, and natural language processing.
I am now finishing my dissertation and am excited about the next chapter of my life. I hope to give back to the world with the same kindness and generosity I received at U of I.
