Xiao Hu is joining the Library & Information Science Program at the University of Denver as Assistant Clinical Professor. 

Xiao's dissertation is titled “Improving Music Mood Classification Using Lyrics, Audio and Social Tags,” which represents the culmination of her work as a PhD student in Library & Information Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In 2008, she received a Master’s in Computer Science also from Illinois, and, previously a Master’s of Science in Electrical Engineering from Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, and a BS in Electronics and Information Systems from Wuhan University.

She has worked as a research engineer for RiverGlass Inc, designing and developing highly interactive web-based applications for building domain-oriented ontology and linguistic lexicons, as a digital library developer for the Illinois Fire Service Institute and Ames Library, as a Researcher exploring methods of miniring correlated words in multiple languages, and conducted research on usability engineering.  Her paper “Music and Mood: Where Theory and Reality Meet, was awarded the Best Student Paper award at the iConference in 2010 and she has presented at the International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval and the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries.

We're very excited about Xiao joining us in Denver.

Mary



Mary Stansbury, PhD
Associate Professor & Program Chair
Library & Information Science
Morgridge College of Education, University of Denver
303-871-3217