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Hello, and welcome to my website. I am Yuanxi Fu, a doctoral student in Information Science at the School of Information Sciences, UIUC [school page]. 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.

My research broadly concerns theoretical and practical issues in information quality. On the theoretical side, I study how epistemic reliance impacts information quality, focusing on a problem I call “unreliability propagation.” On the practical side, I develop methods for measuring and assuring information quality in complex and error-prone information environments. For example, I have developed methods for assessing confidence in evidence synthesis and for tracking unreliability propagation in digital libraries. More recently, my work has turned toward workflow designs for AI-assisted conceptual modeling.

My advisor is Prof. Jodi Schneider, who leads the Information Quality Lab in UIUC and UW-Madison. I hope to one day lead my own research lab on information quality.