Before returning to academe, Craig had a long standing career as a computing professional specializing in enterprise computing solutions. He was recently employed as a sales engineer for a software company providing CRM solutions for financial services. Craig also has specific interests in software engineering for portable devices (PDA's, cell phones, embedded devices), and additional experience in technical support training, technical documentation, and extensive Internet experience in a wide range of client/server architectures. As the corporate sales engineer, he provided the technical liason between the business and technology side of the Financial Services CRM world and worked closely with corporate sales staff and technology staff to provide the answers to potential clients questions - be it via a product demonstration, an informal phone call, or a formal RFP/RFI response. All skills not unfamiliar to an academic environment. Craig started his return to academe as Senior Research Programmer in GSLIS where he worked on faculty projects as a software engineer for 2 years.
For academic and professional resumes, or his LinkedIn profile, see side bar.
That was then ...
When I entered the Informatics program, I thought my research would align closely with my personal interests in mobile devices (PDA's, Smartphones, fitness trackers, SmartWatches, etc). My notion was that I would bridge the confluence of three broader topics: information flow within an organization or community; public adoption of mobile computing technology; and social/collaborative information behaviours. While each of these areas have a wide range of research topics, my specific interest was in researching the information needs of an increasingly mobile, and digitally connected, population.
I shouldn't be surprised that as I took classes my interests would evolve. Working under Professor Jana Diesner, I became entrenched in the business aspects of Social Network Analysis and had a number of research projects using the Enron email corpus underway. Publications highlight the work done in that area.
... This is now
The research involved in the doctoral work was not panning out, but at the same time I developed an interest in teaching undergrads, and have been involved in this aspect of academe for a number of years. While I have withdrawn from the PhD program, I am completing course work necessary to obtain an MSLIS degree - which will allow me to continue teaching.
That should be complete 2023.
Upcoming Papers/Presentations
Past Papers/Presentations
Refereed Papers and Articles
DIESNER, J. and EVANS, C.S., (2015). Little Bad Concerns: Using Sentiment Analysis to Assess Structural Balance in Communication Networks. In Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (Paris, France, August 25-28 2015) DOI=10.1145/2808797.2809403
DIESNER, J., EVANS, C.S., and KIM, J., (2015). Impact of Entity Disambiguation Errors on Social Network Properties. In Ninth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. (Oxford, UK, 26-29 May 2015)
EVANS, C., (2014). Wiki As A Platform – Turning Dissemination into Collaboration. In Proceedings of the iConference 2014 (Berlin, Germany, 4-7 March, 2014 2014)
BILLSUS, D., BRUNK, C.A., EVANS, C., GLADISH, B., and PAZZANI, M. (2002). Adaptive interfaces for ubiquitous web, Communications of The ACM, May 2002, Vol 45, No 5. pg 34-38.
Peer-Reviewed Abstracts, Posters, Panels
EVANS, C.S. (2022) More Than a Snapshot – Adding Temporality to Social Network Analysis Poster at 8th Annual International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) (Chicago, IL, July 19-22 2022)
EVANS C.S., DIESNER, J. (2016) Mutual Impact and Stability of Personal Ethics and Structural Balance in a Communication Network over Time. Poster at 2nd Annual International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) (Evanston, IL, June 24-26 2016) Received HONORABLE MENTION for Advancing Methodology/Theory
EVANS, C.S., REZAPOUR, R., JIANG, M., and DIESNER, J. (2016). Interplay Between Personal Morals with Tie and Cluster Formation in a Corporate Communication Network SUNBELT XXXVI (Newport Beach, CA, 7-11 April 2016)
EVANS, C.S., DIESNER, J., and BLAKE, C., (2015). Email Data Analysis: An Alternate Lens into Historical Events. HASTAC 2015 (Lansing, Michigan, 29 May 2015)
SMITH, B.N.; LUGYA, F.K.; EVANS, C., (2013) Learning focused search in an online social network community, Social Media Expo Poster at iConference 2013, (Fort Worth, TX, USA. Feb 2013)
Current:
Instructor
Fall 2022 - IS206: Introduction to Database Concepts and Applications (Async Lectures / Live Labs)
Upcoming:
Instructor
- TBD -
Previous:
Instructor
Spring 2022 - IS206: Introduction to Database Concepts and Applications (Async Lectures / Live Labs)
Fall 2021 - IS206: Introduction to Database Concepts and Applications (Async Lectures / Live Labs)
Summer 2021 - IS206: Introduction to Database Concepts and Applications (Online)
Spring 2021 - IS206: Introduction to Database Concepts and Applications (Online)
Fall 2020 - IS206: Introduction to Database Concepts and Applications (Online)
Spring 2020 - IS206: Introduction to Database Concepts and Applications* (Moved online March 2020)
*New class - Curriculum Development Summer 2019, Course Instructor Spring 2020
Fall 2015 - LIS452: Foundations in Information Processing in LIS
Teaching Assistant
Fall 2019 - CS598: Foundations of Data Curation (Coursera - Co-Director)
Spring 2018 - IS532: Theory & Practice of Data Cleaning
Spring 2016 - LIS590DCL: Theory & Practice of Data Cleaning
Spring 2015 - LIS590NA: Social Network Analysis (including instructing class on Network Analysis in R)
Fall 2014 - LIS590NA: Social Network Analysis (including instructing class on Network Analysis in R)
Spring 2020
- Completed Informatics Preliminary/Field Exam (Easter 2020)
Fall 2019
- INFO510 - Research Practicum (2 of 2)
Spring 2015
- LIS590TX - Text Mining
- INFO490 - DIY with Galileo Development Boards
Fall 2014
- LIS590PV - Privacy in the Internet Age
- CPSC440 - Applied Statistical Methods
Spring 2014
- CS467 - Social Visualization
- LIS590AD - Socio-Technical Data Analytics
- INFO510 - Research Practicum (1 of 2)
Fall 2013
- CS498 - Digital Forensics
- LIS590AG - Evidence-Based Discovery
- LIS590NA - Network Analysis
Spring 2013
- CS565 - Human-Computer Interaction
- LIS456AG - Information Storage and Retrieval
Fall 2012
- INFO500 - Informatics Seminar
- CAS587/LIS590SSI - Social Spaces on the Internet
- LIS590SF - Social Computing
- LIS590CW - Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Fall 2011 (Pre-PhD as a OCE student)
- LIS590IIS - Interfaces to Information Systems