Program Committee

The JCDL 2026 Program Committee includes researchers and practitioners from digital libraries, information science, computer science, artificial intelligence, data science, and related interdisciplinary areas.

Program Committee Members

• Timo Breuer, TH Köln – University of Applied Sciences
• Florian Reitz, Trier University
• Bofu Dong, Indiana University, Indianapolis
• Praveen Rao, University of Missouri
• Mosab Rezaei, Department of Computer Science at the Northern Illinois University
• Mengqi Luo, Wuhan University
• Reva Freedman, Northern Illinois University
• Bhanuka Mahanama, Old Dominion University
• Mengjia Wu, University of Technology Sydney
• Maureen Henninger, University of Technology Sydney
• Lingzi Hong, University of North Texas
• Rajesh Piryani, AKKODIS Research
• Kazunari Sugiyama, Osaka Seikei University
• Saber Zerhoudi, Universität Passau
• Wenqing Wu, Nanjing University of Science and Technology
• Yi Bu, Peking University
• Ibrahim Al Azher, Northern Illinois University
• Laxmigayathri Challa, University of North Texas
• Bipasha Banerjee, Virginia Tech
• Abdul Rahman Shaikh, Northern Illinois University
• Nuno Freire, INESC-ID
• Jeonghyun (Annie) Kim, University of North Texas
• Satvik Chekuri, Virginia Tech
• Guillaume Cabanac, IRIT – Université de Toulouse
• Michael Nelson, Old Dominion University
• Jacob Jett, Association of State Floodplain Managers
• Miftahul Jannat Mokarrama, Northern Illinois University
• Daniel Alemneh, University of North Texas
• Makanjuola Ogunleye, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• Gilles Hubert, IRIT
• Robert H. McDonald, University of Texas at Austin
• Kristen Scotti, Carnegie Mellon University
• Jiangping Chen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Milena Dobreva, University of Strathclyde
• Sawood Alam, Internet Archive
• Xiaorui Jiang, University of Sheffield
• Harish Varma Siravuri, Northern Illinois University
• Katrina Fenlon, University of Maryland, College Park
• Daniel Evans, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Udo Kruschwitz, University of Regensburg
• Sarantos Kapidakis, University of West Attica
• Mat Kelly, Drexel University
• Patrice Bellot, Aix-Marseille Université – CNRS (LIS)
• Dietmar Wolfram, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• Hamed Alhoori, Northern Illinois University
• Le Yang, University of Oregon
• Yongjun Zhu, Yonsei University
• Ralf Schenkel, Trier University
• Iris Xie, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• Suchetha Nambanoor Kunnath, Open University
• Monika Akbar, University of Texas at El Paso
• Maja Žumer, University of Ljubljana
• Songphan Choemprayong, Chulalongkorn University
• Douglas Tudhope, University of South Wales
• Alex Thurman, Columbia University
• Yuhan Zhou, University of North Texas
• Eman Abdelrahman, Virginia Tech
• Yunhan Yang, The University of Hong Kong
• Chengzhi Zhang, Nanjing University of Science and Technology
• Lei Li, Department of Information Management, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
• Qingqing Zhou, Nanjing Normal University
• Zhongyi Wang, Central China Normal University
• Dion Goh, Nanyang Technological University
• Davy Tsz Kit Ng, The University of Hong Kong
• Marie Katsurai, Doshisha University
• Chen Qiao, The University of Hong Kong
• Yuan Sun, National Institute of Informatics
• Yuzhuo Wang, Anhui University
• Suppawong Tuarob, Mahidol University
• Rui Tao, Nanjing University
• Edward Fox, Virginia Tech
• David Nichols, University of Waikato
• Pengyi Zhang, Peking University
• Rongqian Ma, Indiana University Bloomington
• Nicholas Taylor, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Yohei Seki, University of Tsukuba
• Daniela Gifu, Romanian Academy – Iasi branch & "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi
• Meijun Liu, Fudan University
• Jingzhu Wei, Sun Yat-sen University
• Andrew Cox, The University of Sheffield
• Yi Zhao, Nanjing University of Science and Technology
• Ina Fourie, University of Pretoria
• Jenq-Haur Wang, National Taipei University of Technology
• Thomas Risse, University Frankfurt, University Library J. C. Senckenberg
• George Tsatsaronis, RCO Data Science, Elsevier B.V.
• Peter Mutschke, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
• Monica Landoni, Università della Svizzera italiana, USI
• Dhruv Gupta, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Jinzhu Zhang, School of Economy and Management, Nanjing University of Science and Technology
• Martin Schäler, University of Salzburg
• I-Chin Wu, National Taiwan Normal University
• Antoine Doucet, University of La Rochelle
• Erin Canning, University of Oxford
• Anderson Ferreira, UFOP
• Murtuza Shahzad, Northern Illinois University
• Boyuan Guan, Florida International University
• Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, University of Padua
• Israel Mendonça, Kumamoto University
• Marc Bertin, Université Marie & Louis Pasteur
• Jean-Marc Ogier, University of La Rochelle, Laboratoire L3i
• Guoxiu He, East China Normal University
• Ali Shiri, University of Alberta
• Harald Sack, FIZ Karlsruhe, Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure & KIT Karlsruhe
• Sampanna Kahu, Virginia Tech
• Zihang Lin, Northwestern University
• Lulwah Alkulaib, Kuwait University
• Jie Zhou, Northern Illinois University
• Jiqun Liu, The University of Oklahoma
• Jim Jansen, Qatar Computing Research Institute
• Jian Wu, Old Dominion University
• Jin Mao, Center for the Studies of Information Resources, Wuhan University
• Yasunobu Sumikawa, Takushoku University
• Chao Min, Nanjing University
• Amun Kharel, Virginia Tech
• Jodi Schneider, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
• Vivek Radhakrishnan, Google
• Shaobo Liang, Wuhan University
• Brenda Ayala, University of Alberta
• Sallyjo Cunningham, University of Waikato
• Philipp Schaer, TH Köln – University of Applied Sciences
• Fahmid Shahriar Iqbal, University of North Texas
• Tamjid Azad, Northern Illinois University
• Sung Hee Park, Hannam University
• Yu Chi, San Jose State University
• J. Stephen Downie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Himarsha Jayanetti, Old Dominion University
• Shijie Song, Hohai University
• Zhiwu Xie, Wenzhou-Kean University
• Miriam Blake, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Pradeep Teregowda, IBM
• Tim Gollub, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
• Alexander Nwala, William & Mary
• Vikas Ashok, Old Dominion University
• Unmil Karadkar, University of Graz
• David Koop, Northern Illinois University
• Joseph Tennis, University of Washington
• Ryan Shaw, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Claire Timpany, University of Waikato
• Plaban Kumar Bhowmick, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
• Hussein Suleman, University of Cape Town, South Africa
• Marcel R. Ackermann, Schloss Dagstuhl LZI
• Ian Ruthven, University of Strathclyde
• Soohyung Joo, University of Kentucky
• Roman Kern, Know-Center GmbH
• Shuo Xu, Beijing University of Technology
• Chong Chen, School of Management, Beijing Normal University
• Tanja Friedrich, DLR
• Michele Weigle, Old Dominion University
• Adiba Ibnat Hossain, Northern Illinois University
• William Ingram, Virginia Tech University Libraries
• Venkat Srinivasan, Independent Scientist
• Ingo Frommholz, Modul University Vienna
• Haoxuan Zhang, University of North Texas
• Haihua Chen, University of North Texas