Cassidy R. Sugimoto is an American information scientist who is the Professor and Tom and Marie Patton School Chair in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She studies the ways knowledge is processed and disseminated. She is the author of the 2016

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book ''Big Data is Not a Monolith''.

Early life and education

Sugimoto was an undergraduate student at

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States ...

, where she studied music performance. She remained at the University for graduate studies, but moved to the department of Library Science. Her doctoral research considered the scholarly development of information and library science. She evaluated mentoring, collaboration and interdisciplinary training in doctoral education.

Research and career

After earning her doctorate, Sugimoto joined the faculty at the

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. From 2018 to 2020 Sugimoto worked as program director for the

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program on Science of Science and Innovation Policy. Sugimoto was appointed Professor of Informatics at

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in 2020. She moved to the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2021. Her research considers the formal and informal production, sharing and consumption of knowledge. She was announced as a member of the

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International Advisory board.

Awards and honors

* 2002

Concerto Competition Winner * 2009

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James M. Cretsos Leadership Award * 2014

Trustees Excellence in Teaching Award * 2014 Committee on Institutional Cooperation Academic Leadership Program Fellow * 2020 Indiana University Bicentennial Award for service

Publications

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References

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