Scholar
William A. Ingram
Google Scholar ID: L-R5NXwAAAAJ
Associate Dean and Executive Director for IT, University Libraries, Virginia Tech
Citations & Impact
Citations
222
H-index
9
i10-index
8
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- 1. June 2025: Workshop paper "When LLMs Disagree: Diagnosing Relevance Filtering Bias and Retrieval Divergence in SDG Search" accepted for presentation at LLM4Eval at SIGIR '25.
- 2. April 2025: Paper "Evaluating the Impact of Automated Labeling on Retrieval Instability in Neural IR" accepted to the doctoral consortium at SIGIR.
- 3. January 2025: Paper "VTechAGP: An Academic-to-General-Audience Text Paraphrase Dataset and Benchmark Models" accepted for publication in the NAACL 2025 Main Conference.
- 4. November 2024: Three posters and one workshop paper accepted at the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2024).
- 5. November 2024: Workshop paper "Automating Chapter-Level Classification for Electronic Theses and Dissertations" accepted at the 9th Computational Archival Science (CAS) Workshop, part of IEEE BigData 2024.
- 6. June 2024: Awarded continued appointment and promotion to Associate Professor at Virginia Tech.
- 7. May 2024: Journal article "Building Datasets to Support Information Extraction and Structure Parsing from Electronic Theses and Dissertations" published in the International Journal on Digital Libraries.
- 8. October 2023: Paper titled "ETDPC: A Multimodality Framework for Classifying Pages in Electronic Theses and Dissertations" accepted for presentation at IAAI-24.
- 9. June 2023: Long paper "Integrated Digital Library System for Long Documents and their Elements" nominated for Best Student Paper Award at JCDL 2023.
- 10. June 2023: Short paper "MetaEnhance: Metadata Quality Improvement for Electronic Theses and Dissertations of University Libraries" nominated for Best Short Paper at JCDL 2023.
- 11. March 2023: Panel proposal "AI and Public Archives: Collaborative Leadership for Responsible Adoption" accepted at JCDL 2023.
Research Experience
- Since 2008, he has been involved in projects and services related to scholarly communication, digital preservation, repositories, and digital libraries.
Education
- B.A. in Cognitive Science from the University of Virginia; M.S. in Library and Information Science from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008; currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Virginia Tech, under the supervision of Professor Edward A. Fox.
Background
- William A. Ingram is an associate professor at Virginia Tech, where he serves as Associate Dean and Executive Director for IT for the University Libraries and Director of the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship. His research is centered on the integration of AI and machine learning with big data applications within academic and scholarly contexts. Specifically, he focuses on employing natural language processing to enrich digital library systems and scholarly data management.
Miscellany
- Interests include using platforms such as ORCID, Google Scholar, DBLP, Scopus, LinkedIn, GitHub, Bluesky, and Strava.
Co-authors