Assistant Director, M. Douglas & V. Kay Ivester Institute for Business Analytics and Insights Katherine Ireland is the Assistant Director of the M. Douglas & V. Kay Ivester Institute for Business Analytics and Insights at the Terry College of Business, University of Georgia. Her scholarship sits at the intersection of data science, linguistics, and computational methods, and she is a faculty fellow in UGA’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence. She recently completed a Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Georgia, specializing in corpus linguistics and computational humanities, and has published in venues such as Applied Corpus Linguistics, BYU Law Review, and the Journal of English Linguistics, with additional articles forthcoming in Cambridge’s Data Intensive Investigations of English. Ireland’s professional experience includes serving as Interim Head of the UGA Libraries’ DigiLab, as well as research assistant roles with the DigiLab and the Linguistic Atlas Project. She has also contributed to teaching as a TA for John Hale’s Text and Corpus LING/ENGL 4/6{886} course. Her work is highly interdisciplinary, drawing on linguistics, data science, and technology to address questions across business and society. Education: Ph.D. Linguistics, The University of Georgia, 2022. Research Research Interests: Data science Business and technology Corpus linguistics Social media Computational methods at the intersection of data science and linguistics
