Cassidy Sugimoto


Cassidy R. Sugimoto is an American information scientist who is Chair and Tom and Marie Patton Professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research considers the formal and informal production, sharing and consumption of knowledge. She is the author of the 2023 Harvard University Press book Equity for Women in Science and the 2018 Oxford University Press work on Measuring Research: What everyone needs to know. She has also edited several books including the 2016 MIT Press book Big Data is Not a Monolith.
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Early life and education

Sugimoto was an undergraduate student at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she studied music performance. She remained at the University for graduate studies, but moved to the department of Library Science for a Master's degree and then to the Information and Library Science doctoral program. Her doctoral research considered the scholarly development of information and library science. She evaluated mentoring, collaboration and interdisciplinary training in doctoral education.

Research and career

After earning her doctorate, Sugimoto joined the faculty at the Indiana University Bloomington where she served as President of the Faculty Senate. From 2018 to 2020 Sugimoto worked as program director for the National Science Foundation program on Science of Science and Innovation Policy. Sugimoto was appointed Professor of Informatics at Indiana University in 2019 and served as Director of Graduate Studies in Informatics from 2020-2021. She moved to the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2021 as Tom and Marie Patton Chaired Professor and Chair of the School of Public Policy. In 2024, under her leadership, the school formally became the Jimmy and Rosalynn School of Public Policy. She has also held several visiting professorships, including at KAIST, Stellenbosch University, Universiti Malaya, University of Granada, and Leiden University.
She was announced as a member of the Angewandte Chemie International Advisory board.

Awards and honors

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