Peggy Lindner

Peggy Lindner

Assistant Professor
Computer Information Systems

University of Houston

Biography

I’m an Assistant Professor in the department of Information Science Technology at the University of Houston. My research is on emerging patterns through data in areas where qualitative and quantitative data sources come together. Those emerging patterns can inform policy decisions or measure the impact of interventions as well as improve workflows for quantitative analysis in the Sciences and Humanities.

Interests

  • Data Science workflows
  • Computational Social Science
  • Information Retrieval
  • Text analysis

Education

  • PhD in Mechanical Engineering, 2007

    University of Stuttgart, Germany

  • MEng in Geotechnology/Mining, 2000

    Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, Germany

  • BSc in Geotechnology/Mining, 1996

    Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, Germany

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Assistant Professor

University of Houston, Department of Information & Logistics Technology

Sep 2019 – Present Texas

Affiliations:

  • The Honors College, University of Houston
  • Center for Public History, University of Houston”
 
 
 
 
 

Associate Director for Educational Programs

HPE Data Science Institute, University of Houston

Jan 2016 – Aug 2019 Texas
  • Development of Data science related academic programs across colleges
  • Lead for Summer workshop series “What is Data Science”
 
 
 
 
 

Research Assistant Professor

University of Houston, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Honors College

Nov 2013 – Aug 2019 Texas
  • Research: Object centered studies in digital humanities (Collaborator Dr. Dan Price)
  • Research: Real-Time data analysis workflows for air quality and health data (Collaborator Dr. Barry Lefer)
  • Assistance with assessment of effectiveness of research initiatives at the Honors College
  • Management and Analysis of large-scale datasets with specific focus on health, environment & the financial sector, Research Data Sharing, Digital Humanities Liaison for the Center for Advanced Computing and Data Science (CACDS)
 
 
 
 
 

Research Assistant Professor

University of Houston, Department of Computer Science

Nov 2009 – Dec 2012 Texas
  • Lead design and development of “StressBook” software – an analysis tool for large physiological & psychological datasets; funded through various grants from NSF and DoD (under Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis)

Projects

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All Digital Humanities Social Computing Other

AIceberg - Explainable AI

A industry sponsored research for effective AI risk management and responsible AI https://aiceberg.ai/.

Fairness and Bias in promotion & Tenure

Despite their sensitive nature, given the criticality of ERLs in academic promotion and tenure decisions, the limited research on validity and bias in ERLs is stunning. This project closes this gap by analyzing the linguistic characteristics of ERLs and examining the relationship between ERL linguistic characteristics, promotion candidate characteristics, letter writer characteristics, and promotion and tenure voting outcomes at the department, college, and university-level committees.

A Database of Digital News in Fifteen African Countries

National Women’s Conference

Democratizing Politics - Mapping the Stories and Significance of the 1977 National Women’s Conference. A comprehensive multi-institutional project to analyze the 1977 National Women’s Conference (NWC).

HNET Datamaps

A sensor data collection and analytics a framework https://hnet.uh.edu.

Mindfulness for Offshore Safety

A NASEM sponsored research project.

Scholar data base

A comprehensive collection of ~5600 academic scholars across 65 STEM departments at Universities across the US. We manually extraced data from department websites and augmented with automatically scraped publication data from Google Scholar.

The Syrios Project

An interactive, virtual exploration of the vastly different coins minted by Syrian cities within the Greco-Roman period.

Students

Graduate Students

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Jeremy Edwards

Research Assistant

AIceberg Project

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Sravan Koka

Research Assistant

AIceberg Project

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Tianhao Shao

Full-stack web developer

Syrios Project, National Women’s Conference 1977

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Vengal Pachava

Research Assistant

AIceberg Project

Undergraduate Students

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Onyemaechi Onwudiachi

Full-stack web developer

DataPlatform

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Philip Eriksson

Full-stack web developer

DataPlatform

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Thang Nguyen

Full-stack web developer

Syrios Project, National Women’s Conference 1977

Alumni

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Griffin Litwin

Research Assistant

Scholar data base

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Jamiu Adegbite

Graduate Assistant

Data Mining & Modeling

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Megan Stickler

Graduate Assistant

Data Mining & Natural Language Processing

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Michael Neugebauer

Full-stack web developer

National Women’s Conference 1977

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Rahul Mogili

Graduate Assistant

Syrios Project

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Rohan Sai Mendu

Full-stack developer

HNET sensor network

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Shane Whitmire

Full-stack developer

Syrios project, HNET sensor network

Recent & Upcoming Talks

Using Public History to Study Modern Feminism

Making the Case for the Humanities in the Data Center
Apr 13, 2024 1:30 AM — 3:00 AM Salt Lake City, Utah
Nancy Beck Young, Rahil Asgari, Cady Hammer, Peggy Lindner, Allison Perlman, Elizabeth Rodwell, Leandra Zarnow
Project website
Using Public History to Study Modern Feminism

How to keep your head above water during a digital project

Digital Project Management Workshop
May 24, 2020 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Online
Video Project website
How to keep your head above water during a digital project

Reconstructing Ancient Syria

Making the Case for the Humanities in the Data Center
Apr 9, 2020 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM Online
Video Project website
Reconstructing Ancient Syria

Recent Publications

The Democratic Value of Strategic Game Reporting and Uncivil Talk: A Computational Analysis of Facebook Conversations During U.S. Primary Debates

This study explores discourse features on Facebook pages of news organizations during the 2020 U.S. primary debates using a …
Lindita Camaj, Lea Hellmueller, Sebastián Vallejo Vera, Peggy Lindner
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Statistical and Machine Learning Analysis in Brain-Imaging Genetics: A Review of Methods

Brain-imaging-genetic analysis is an emerging field of research that aims at aggregating data from neuroimaging modalities, which …
Connor L. Cheek, Peggy Lindner, Elena L. Grigorenko
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Underrepresented Minority Faculty Face Double Standard in Promotion and Tenure Decisions

Theo Masters-Waage, Ebenezer Edema-Sillo, Ally Gutierrez, Erika Henderson, Michelle Penn-Marshall, Juan Madera, Peggy Lindner, Cynthia Werner, Tracey Rizzuto, Christiane Spitzmueller

Mindfulness and workplace safety: An integrative review

Abstract Mindfulness has recently gained popularity in applied settings to enhance workplace safety, especially in safety‐critical …
Zihan Liu, Kevin Hoff, Erica Baranski, Galen Snyder, Rhona Flin, Peggy Lindner, Christiane Spitzmueller
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A Computational Mapping of Online News Deserts on African News Websites

textlessspantextgreaterTo date, the study of news deserts, geographic spaces lacking local news and information, has largely focused on …
Dani Madrid-Morales, Joan Ramon Rodríguez-Amat, Peggy Lindner
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Data Analytics in Student Hands

In addition to my research projects and teaching in the CIS program, I’m the Director of the DASH program at the Honors College.

Professional Engagement

Association of Computer Machinery

ACM since 2018

Digital Research Commons Advisory Board

University of Houston Libraries 2018 – 2021

Future Infromation Technology Professionals

I’m currently a faculty advisor for the FITP Student Organization FITP at the Cullen College of Engineering.

Contact

  • plindner@central.uh.edu
  • 713-743-4581
  • 14000 University Blvd., Brazos Hall #343, Sugar Land, TX 77479-0800
  • Enter the Brazos Hall Building and take the stairs or elevator to Office 343 on Floor 3