Author: Ali Shiri

Ali Shiri is a Professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and is currently serving as the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies. He received his PhD in Information Science from the University of Strathclyde Department of Computer and Information Sciences in Glasgow, Scotland in 2004. He has been teaching, researching, and writing about digital libraries, digital information interaction, data and learning analytics, and more recently on the responsible and ethical use of generative AI in higher education. In his current research, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), he is developing mobile applications for cultural heritage digital libraries and digital storytelling systems for the Inuvialuit communities in the Northwest Territories in Canada’s Western Arctic.

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