The School of Information Management (SIM) is pleased to announce the cross-appointment of Dr. Gruzd to the Dalhousie Faculty of Computer Science. This cross-appointment reflects the interdisciplinary nature of Dr. Gruzd’s expertise and research interests in both Information Management and Computer Science (CS).
In addition to teaching classes within SIM, Dr. Gruzd is also teaching the Databases & Data Mining course (ECMM 6014 & HINF 6210) in the E-commerce and Health Informatics programs for the Faculty of Computer Science. He currently has three CS students working on projects in his Social Media Lab (www.SocialMediaLab.ca), along with three SIM students, and he is also on the PhD thesis committee for one CS student. Working with other CS faculty members, Dr.Gruzd plans to develop new courses that might be of interest to students from both the the School of Information Management and the Faculty of Computer Science such as Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing or Social Computing.

Dr. Gruzd has a PhD in Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2009, a MS in Library & Information Science from Syracuse University and a BS & MS in Computer Science from Dnipropetrovsk National University in Ukraine. Dr. Gruzd’s work has been presented and published in several peer-reviewed journals and conferences, including the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, American Society for Information Science and Technology, Information Processing & Management, Digital Libraries, GROUP, and Networked Learning. In early 2010, Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd along with Dr. Barry Wellman, Department of Sociology of the University of Toronto, was awarded $161,000 by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to study “How Online Social Media and Online Social Networks are Changing the Ways Scholars Disseminate Knowledge and Information”. Dr. Gruzd is also a collaborator in a five-year collaborative research initiative called Network Assessment and Validation for Effective Leadership (NAVEL). NAVEL is funded as part of a larger $23.2 million Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) initiative called the GRAND (Graphics, Animation and New meDia) network which goal is to develop Canada’s position as a global leader in new media, animation and games.