Yi-Yun Cheng is an assistant professor at the School of Communication and Information, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Her research and teaching focuses on how systems of organization affect the ways data are represented. In her work, she resolves interoperability problems in taxonomies, metadata, ontologies, and other knowledge organization systems (KOS) in biodiversity and geographic contexts.
Ms. Tian Yi Xu is a PhD student in Sociology at Western University. Tian’s research interests include gender inequality, gender-based violence, the life course theory, resilience, social demography, quantitative methods, and mix-methods research. Her dissertation research explores the Resilience in Childhood Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence in a Life Course Perspective. Tian has been recognized