Bio
Christoph Becker is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Information of the University of Toronto.
He has published widely in software systems, digital libraries, and digital curation; created award-winning decision support tools for scalable digital preservation in collaboration with international consortia of universities, cultural heritage organizations and commercial partners; and developed open methods to evaluate digital preservation processes and capabilities.
Professor Becker’s work unites a concern for digital, software-dependent information resources with a focus on the human and collaborative factors of decision making and systems design. It pays primary attention to the longer-term concerns that arise as software and information systems are embedded in the fabric of our societies.
His core contributions lie at the intersection of information and computer science. First, his research addresses the general disciplines of software engineering and information systems through a focus on requirements engineering; second, he publishes within the cluster of fields comprising digital curation, digital preservation, digital libraries and archives.
Memberships
- Committee Member, Editorial Board – ACM Journal on Responsible Computing
Awards
- Best Paper Award, 6th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability, 2019
- German Academic Exchange Service Scholarship, 2019
- Emerald Literati Network Award for Excellence, OCLC Systems & Services, 2016
- Connaught New Research Award, University of Toronto, 2015-2016
- W. Kaye Lamb Prize, Association of Canadian Archivists
Supervision
Current Supervision
Eshta Bhardwaj
Supervisor: Christoph Becker
Han Qiao
Supervisor: Christoph Becker