Rong Tang

Professor
School of Library and Information Science

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Rong Tang is a Professor at the School of Library and Information Science, College of Organizational, Computational, and Information Sciences, Simmons University. Her research interests center on usability and UX research, mobile news information behavior, research data management services, and open government data. Published in top-ranked journals, Rong Tang teaches primarily in areas of usability, digital information searching, evaluation of information services, theories of information science, and research methods.

Rong Tang is the founding Director of Simmons Usability Lab. She serves as the Director of the Ph.D. Program at SLIS. Rong has received multiple grants including a WGBH subcontracted grant from NEH (National Endowment of the Humanities) and an IMLS grant on developing an interprofessional informationist (IPI) post-master’s certificate program. Rong Tang is also a Co-Leader for the Research Data Management Librarian Academy (RDMLA) project.

Professionally, Rong Tang served as the Director for External Relations, Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) from 2017 to 2020. Currently, she serves as a vice-chair for ALISE Advancement Committee. She is the Co-Chair of the Programming Committee of the New England Chapter of the Association for Information Science & Technology.