Kalpana Shankar

Assistant Professor of Informatics

E-mail

Phone

(812) 856-1867

Fax

(812) 856-1995

Office

Informatics West, Room 303

Hours

Fall 2009: 4-5, MW

Web Site

www.informatics.indiana.edu/shankark

Other Titles

• Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science

Research Interests

Recordkeeping and scientific memory, emergent technologies and scientific practice, ethnography of information, data sharing and use across communities of practice

Research Projects

ETHOS - Ethical Technologies in the Homes of Seniors

Education

• BA, molecular biology, Princeton University PhD, library and information science, UCLA

Biography

Prof. Shankar completed her Ph.D. in Library and Information Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher on data and metadata management for the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) at UCLA and worked as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science Policy Fellow in the Office of Evaluation at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, MD.