Inna Kouper
Assistant Scientist
Contact Information
inkouper@indiana.edu
Smith Research (2805 E. 10th Street) 120
http://inkouper.blogspot.com
Education
- Ph.D. in Information Science at Indiana University Bloomington, 2011
- Ph.D. in Sociology at the Institute of Sociology in Moscow, Russia, 2001
Courses Taught at Luddy
- I535 Management, Access, and Use of Big and Complex Data
Biography
Kouper's research interests are in the history and sociology of knowledge production and dissemination, with a particular emphasis on the emerging technologies and data practices.
She has published on the topics of hypertext, biotechnology, big data, and data curation.
She is involved in the projects funded by the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Institute of Museum and Library Services to study communities of data producers and consumers, promote data stewardship and sharing and develop innovative methods of data collection, preservation, and analysis.
Kouper has undergraduate and masters degrees in information systems, a PhD in sociology and a PhD in information science.
Research Areas
- Social Informatics
- Data Science for Applications
- Data Security and Privacy
- Data Visualization
- Social and Ethical Aspects of Data Science
- Data Science
Centers
- Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research
- Center for Survey Research