Manika Lamba

Dr. Manika Lamba is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Previously, she was a Lecturer at the Department of Library & Information Science, School of Open Learning (SOL), University of Delhi for the academic year 2022-2023. She earned her Ph.D. in Library & Information Science from the University of Delhi. She is currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Library and Information Services (IJLIS), and the Chair of Professional Development Sub-Committee & Elected Standing Committee Member at IFLA Science and Technology Libraries Section. Recently, she received the Best Volunteer Award from ASIST SIG-III. Earlier, she served as the Newsletter Officer & Webmaster at ASIS&T South Asia Chapter, Secretary at ASIS&T SIG-DL, and Cabinet Representative at ASIS&T SIG-OIM from 2021-2022. She was Editor-at-large for dh+lib (an ACRL Digital Humanities Interest Group project) and was featured in the Information Professionals Share their Top Tips for 2019 blog by the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC). She is an active reviewer for more than 20 international journals, including IEEE Access, Scientometrics, Library Hi-Tech, and the Journal of Information Science. Her research focuses on information retrieval, digital libraries, social informatics, and scholarly communication using text mining, natural language processing, and machine learning techniques. She has worked extensively with textual data. Her work combines qualitative and quantitative methods, including focus groups, survey and field experiments, and computational approaches.

Margam Madhusudhan

Dr. Margam Madhusudhan is currently working as a Professor in the Department of Library and Information Science, University of Delhi, India. He has worked as Deputy Dean Academics and Member of Academic Council at the University of Delhi. He is a member of many academic bodies, editorial board of national and international LIS journals. He is the recipient of the “Award for Excellence” (Highly Commended) in 2019, “Excellence in Research” in 2017, P.V. Verghese Award in 2013. He has 22 years of teaching, administration, and research experience at the university level.