Manika Lamba

Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma

I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Library & Information Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Before joining the University of Oklahoma, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the HathiTrust Research Center in the School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. My research sits at the intersection of knowledge organization, social computing, and critical AI studies.

I examine how knowledge is organized, represented, discovered, and accessed across scholarly and digital information systems. I use large language models, natural language processing, and machine learning alongside user-centered methods to study how people create, share, and encounter knowledge through digital platforms and to develop more inclusive, and accessible information systems.

My research has received support from the University of Oklahoma, Princeton University, National Science Foundation through a microgrant and the Innovation Corps (I-Corps), Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), and Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science (SICSS).

I will be recruiting multiple PhD and master students from the iSchool (primarily) and other OU programs. If you are interested in working with me, please read through Mentorship section carefully. I am always excited to hear from motivated students!✨