Biography
Gobinda Chowdhury is a Professor within the Information and Knowledge Management programme in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at UTS. After acquiring an honours, a postgraduate and two PhD degrees, he worked as an academic and a researcher in different parts of the world for nearly two decades. Before joining UTS, he was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK, and prior to that an Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
Professional
Over the years Professor Chowdhury has supervised a number of PhD students, and conducted a number of research projects funded by government agencies and the European Commission in the following broad areas of Information Studies:
* design and usability of digital libraries and information services
* information organization and access in online information systems
* digital preservation and information access.
Prof. Chowdhury has also successfully conducted contract research for several UN bodies, national government bodies and charities. Prof. Chowdhury was awarded a Fellowship of CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, UK’s largest, and one of the world’s oldest, professional bodies) in 1999 for his contributions to the field of information studies.
Prof. Chowdhury has an extensive list of publications that include nine well reviewed books and over 100 refereed journal articles and conference papers in different areas of information studies.
He has also served as an editorial board member of several major international journals including:
Journal of Documentation (2002- )
Online Information Review (2002 – 2008 )
Library Review (2002- )
International Yearbook of Library and Information Management (2003–2006)
World Digital libraries: an international journal (2007 – )
He has also acted as an international program committee member at various international conferences including:
Joint Conference of Digital Libraries (2003- )
International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (2002- )
International Conference on Digital Libraries (2004 – )
International Society for Knowledge Organization (2004)
ACM SIGIR (2006- )
Areas of Expertise
Prof. Chowdhury’s interest in teaching include:
* information retrieval
* digital libraries
* knowledge organization
He has written several books in these areas and those are used widely to teach post graduate students in Information Studies throughout the world. Professor Chowdhury has acted as an external examiner and assessor for post graduate Information Studies programmes at several universities.
Research Area
* Information studies
* Knowledge management
