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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. I am now on my way to receive a second PhD, this time in information science, which I expect to complete in 2027.

It took me a while to find myself. In the end, I recognize that I am interested in reasoning and argumentation. I am also deeply interested in the ethics of knowledge: when can we responsibly claim that we know? I hope to contribute my skills and knowledge to data curation (in particular, scientific reasoning as data) and data science education (in particular, teaching students how to do data science responsibly)!

In my second life as an information scientist, I was fortunate to have been mentored by generous and brilliant scholars in theoretical information science, argumentation studies, philosophy, machine learning, and natural langague processing. I am now finishing my dissertation, Unreliability Propagation: Conceptual Foundations for Justified Action, and on the job market. I am excited about the next chapter of my life. I hope to give back to the world with the same kindness and generosity as I recieved at U of I’s iSchool.

For my track record as a scholar, please refer to my CV.