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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 addresses theoretical and practical issues in information quality. I am supervised by Prof. Jodi Schneider and work in her Information Quality Lab. On the theoretical side, I study how epistemic reliance can degrade information quality, focusing on a problem I call “unreliability propagation.” On the practical side, I develop frameworks and methods for auditing AI-generated artifacts in data science. Although I am primarily an information scientist, I also identify as a Science of Science researcher. I hope to use insights from Science of Science to inform the design of research support systems.