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 on shared resources (e.g., data, software, methods) 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, I have shifted my attention to scientific question answering (QA) systems and study how they might further amplify existing bias in scientific literature.
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.
Yuanxi Fu 