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Bryan Heidorn
P. Bryan Heidorn is the Director of the University of Arizona School of Information. Prior to coming to the UA, Heidorn was a faculty member of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For the last two years he also served as a program manager of the Division of Biological Infrastructure at the National Science Foundation. Bryan served in a number of posts including President, VP and Grants Committee Chair of the JRS Biodiversity Foundation (
www.jrsbdf.org/) which funds work in Africa and South America for biodiversity informatics projects for 7 years ending 2013. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Organization for Tropical Studies (
https://tropicalstudies.org). His areas of research include natural language processing, text mining for metadata and information retrieval, particularly in biodiversity literature, and museum informatics.