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slafia@umich.edu

(626) 513-3646

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Applications:
Informatics, Social Science
Methodologies:
Data Mining, Data Visualization, Databases and Data management, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Statistics
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NSF


Sara Lafia

Research Investigator

ICPSR

Research Investigator, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, Institute for Social Research and Adjunct Lecturer In Information, School of Information

I am a Research Fellow in the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan. My research is currently supported by a NSF project, Developing Evidence-based Data Sharing and Archiving Policies, where I am analyzing curation activities, automatically detecting data citations, and contributing to metrics for tracking the impact of data reuse. I hold a Ph.D. in Geography from UC Santa Barbara and I have expertise in GIScience, spatial information science, and urban planning. My interests also include the Semantic Web, innovative GIS education, and the science of science. I have experience deploying geospatial applications, designing linked data models, and developing visualizations to support data discovery.