Bob Losee's Research, Teaching, and Advising areas:

Representing, organizing, classifying, and browsing information,    

Natural language processing and text mining,    

Retrieval performance measurement,    

Information retrieval, filtering, search engines,    

Digital libraries,    

Library operations    

Information and communication,    

Web navigation and organizing information,    

Bibliometrics, Webmetrics, Scholarly Communication,    

Material selection and collection management,    

Evolutionary processes,    

Machine learning, Adaptive systems, Personalization, Decision making,    

Knowledge management and information management, along with cooperation and economics of information,    

Databases.

• At UNC-CH SILS, Master's papers require only one advisor and no oral defense. Doctoral dissertation committees require 4 SILS faculty members and one external person. There is an oral defense of the doctoral dissertation.
• I am willing to act as a master's paper advisor in almost any of these areas, as well as in other areas.
• I am willing to act as a doctoral student's advisor or member of their dissertation committee in areas related to research I've conducted and where I and others in the area frequently talk about research. Each faculty member has their own group of faculty they talk with about research: some faculty include me in discussions (and I work with students in these areas), and some faculty do not include me in discussions (and I cannot effectively work with students in those areas.) Doctoral students need and deserve a quality dissertation committee, and students should settle for nothing less.