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The School of Information Management, Dalhousie University, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd as Assistant Professor. Dr. Gruzd completed his PhD in Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2009. Dr. Gruzd holds a MS in Library & Information Science from Syracuse University and both a BS & MS in Computer Science from Dnipropetrovsk National University in Ukraine.

Dr. Gruzd will continue to expand his innovative research and development of various automated text mining techniques and visualization tools for uncovering social networks between online participants based on their digital footprints alone. Dr. Gruzd's research interests include also Online Communities, Context-aware Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries.

Dr. Gruzd’s work has been presented and published in several peer-reviewed journals and conferences, including Information Processing & Management, the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Digital Libraries, GROUP, and Networked Learning. Most recently, Dr. Gruzd's paper "Studying collaborative learning using name networks" received the ALISE 2009 Best Paper Award and has been published in the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science. More recently, Dr. Gruzd has been interviewed and filmed by Epigeum, a company associated with Imperial College in London, UK on his innovative use of various interactive learning technologies in the classroom such as iClickers. The interview will be featured in a series of high-quality, online training courses for faculty, students and staff in higher education. In early 2010, Dr. Gruzd will participating in a two-year collaborative research initiative called Network Assessment and Validation for Effective Leadership (NAVEL). NAVEL is funded as part of a larger $23.2 million Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) initiative called the GRAND (Graphics, Animation and New meDia) network which goal is to develop Canada’s position as a global leader in new media, animation and games.