Diane Kelly is a Professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research and teaching interests are in interactive information search and retrieval, information search behavior, and research methods. She is the recipient of the 2014 ASIST Research Award, the 2013 British Computer Society’s IRSG Karen Spärck Jones Award, the 2009 ASIST/Thomson Reuters Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award and the 2007 SILS Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award. She is the current ACM SIGIR treasurer and served as conference program committee co-chair in 2013. She serves on the editorial boards of several journals including ACM Transaction on Information Systems, Information Processing & Management, and Information Retrieval Journal. Kelly received a Ph.D., M.L.S. and graduate certificate in cognitive science from Rutgers University and a B.A. from the University of Alabama.
