Hemalata Iyer

Hemalata Iyer, PhD, is Associate Professor at the School of Information Science and Policy, University at Albany, State University of New York. Her academic interests focus on structuring and representing information, user behavior, Web-based instructional technology, cognitive aspects of retrieval, including applications of WordNet to information retrieval. Her book, Classificatory Structures: Concepts, Relations, and Representations, examines knowledge structures from a variety of...See more

Hemalata Iyer, PhD, is Associate Professor at the School of Information Science and Policy, University at Albany, State University of New York. Her academic interests focus on structuring and representing information, user behavior, Web-based instructional technology, cognitive aspects of retrieval, including applications of WordNet to information retrieval. Her book, Classificatory Structures: Concepts, Relations, and Representations, examines knowledge structures from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. She is also Editor of the book Electronic Resources: Use and User Behavior. Dr. Iyer teaches courses at the master's level and is also a full faculty member in the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Information Science. In addition to her teaching and research, she served for several years as the U.S. Regional Coordinator for the International Society for Knowledge Organization. See less