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.
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It took me a while to find myself. In the end, I recognize that I am interested in reasoning and argumentation, and I am interested in managing complex information. In my PhD study, I explored the selection of scientific evidence, logical dependencies among scientific publications, citation bias, downstream adverse impact of retracted science, and the incorpration of AI in science.
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, science and technology studies, machine learning, and natural langague processing. I am now finishing my dissertation, Unreliability Propagation: Conceptual Foundations for Justified Action. 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 School of Information Sciences.
