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Professional Experience

Virginia Tech University Libraries

  • 2024– Associate Dean and Executive Director for IT (Associate Professor)
  • 2023–2024 Associate Dean and Executive Director for IT (Assistant Professor)
  • 2018–2023 Assistant Dean and Director for IT (Assistant Professor)
  • 2016–2018 Director for IT Services (Lecturer)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library

  • 2014–2016 Manager, Scholarly Communication and Repository Services
  • 2010–2014 Research Programmer
  • 2008–2010 Visiting Research Programmer

Rare Book School, University of Virginia

  • 2005–2007 Assistant Director for Programs

Professional contributions

  • 2023 Reviewer, International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL)
  • 2023 Member, Program Committee, 27th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL ’23), Zadar, Croatia
  • 2023 Member, Program Committee, 23rd ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in 2023 (JCDL ’23), Santa Fe, NM
  • 2023 Member, Program Committee, 26th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD 2023), Kevadia, Gujarat, India
  • 2022 Member, Program Committee, 25th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD 2022), Nova Sad, Serbia
  • 2022 Member, Program Committee, 22nd ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in 2022 (JCDL ’22), Cologne, Germany
  • 2021 Member, Program Committee, ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in 2021 (JCDL ’21), Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.
  • 2020 Member, Reviewing Committee, ETD2020 Virtual Conference, Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
  • 2020 Member, Program Committee, ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in 2020 (JCDL ’20), Wuhan, China.
  • 2020 Subreviewer, 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020), Xi'an, China.
  • 2019– Member, Board of Directors, Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD).
  • 2018 Member, Program Committee, ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in 2018 (JCDL ’18), Fort Worth, Texas
  • 2018– Representative, Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
  • 2015–2016 Member, DSpace Leadership Committee, DuraSpace
  • 2014–2016 Member, CSV on the Web, W3C Working Group

Education

  • Ph.D. (in progress), Computer Science, Virginia Tech, 2025 (expected)
  • M.S., Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008
  • B.A., Cognitive Science, University of Virginia, 2005