Peggy Lindner

Peggy Lindner

Assistant Professor
Computer Information Systems

University of Houston

Biography

Peggy Lindner is an Assistant Professor in the department of Information & Logistics Technology at the University of Houston. Her 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
 
 
 
 
 

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

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

Grad Students

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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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Rahul Mogili

Graduate Assistant

Syrios Project

Undergraduate Students

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Michael Neugebauer

Full-stack web developer

National Women’s Conference 1977

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Shane Whitmire

Full-stack developer

Syrios project, HNET sensor network

Recent & Upcoming Talks

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

Higher Research Productivity = More pay? Gender Pay-for-Productivity Inequity Across Disciplines

Charissa Samaniego, Bobbie Dirr, Maryam Kazmi, Peggy Lindner, Dejun Tony Kong, Evonzia Jeff-Eke, Christiane Spitzmueller

Digital Numismatics and Data Visualization for Ancient Antioch

Kristina Neumann, Peggy Lindner

Gentle approaches to support large scale manual data curation

Peggy Lindner

Machine Learning for Measuring and Analyzing Online Social Communications

Chris Bronk, Amaury Lendasse, Peggy Lindner, Dan Wallach, Barbara Hammer

Optimization of an Algorithm Using Aerosol Optical Properties to Investigate the Influence of Biomass Burning on an Urban Atmosphere – (BC)2 2021 Field Campaign

Mackenzie Graham, Manisha Mehra, Peggy Lindner, Eugenia Velasco Moireira, Sujan Shresta, James H. Flynn, Rebecca Sheesly, Sascha Usenko
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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

Contact

  • plindner@uh.edu
  • 713 743 4581
  • 4730 Calhoun Road #387, Houston, TX 77204-4021
  • Enter College of Technology Building and take the stairs or elevator to Office 387 on Floor 3