Directory

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Saeed Abdullah

  • Assistant Professor
  • CSRAI Affiliate

Department/Unit: College of Information Sciences and Technology

Email: saeed@psu.edu

Research Interests: mHealth; sensing health behaviors and contexts; data-driven intervention; pervasive health technologies

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Youakim Badr

  • Professor
  • CSRAI Affiliate

Department/Unit: School of Graduate Professional Studies, Penn State Great Valley

Email: yzb61@psu.edu

Research Interests: Dr. Badr is developing a new chain of data analytical models, tools, and platforms for designing and deploying “Trustworthy AI Service Systems” by investigating a multidisciplinary and systematic approach, integrating AI, IoT, and Blockchains.

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Amit Banerjee

  • Associate Professor
  • CSRAI Affiliate

Department/Unit: Mechanical Engineering, Penn State Harrisburg

Email: aub25@psu.edu

Research Interests: Researcher in Machine Learning applications in manufacturing, machine health monitoring, predictive diagnostics, cognition and creativity, and engineering education. Research interests also include nonlinear optimization using evolutionary algorithms, data classification and clustering, pattern recognition, data modeling and visualization.

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Gregory Banyay

  • Assistant Research Professor
  • CSRAI Affiliate

Department/Unit: Applied Research Laboratory, Fluid Dynamics and Acoustics Office

Email: gab5631@psu.edu

Research Interests: development of enhanced methods for modeling and simulation, flow-induced vibration, and uncertainty quantification, with structural acoustics objectives

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Roger Beaty

  • Assistant Professor of Psychology
  • CSRAI Affiliate

Department/Unit: College of the Liberal Arts

Email: rub736@psu.edu

Research Interests: My research seeks to understand how people think creatively. Our lab develops educational technology to cultivate and evaluate creative thinking, using tools from machine learning and natural language processing. We aim to design educational tools that are culturally responsive and accessible to diverse populations.

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Matthew Beckman

  • Associate Research Professor of Statistics
  • CSRAI Affiliate

Department/Unit: Eberly College of Science

Email: mdb268@psu.edu

Research Interests: Assessment and learning in post-secondary Statistics and Data Science Education. I'm currently PI for NSF:IUSE Project CLASSIFIES--which seeks to develop and investigate tools that leverage LLMs and NLP to assist STEM instructors in large-enrollment classes with providing student feedback on short-answer tasks.

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Brian Belland

  • Associate Professor, Educational Psychology
  • CSRAI Affiliate

Department/Unit: Department of Educational Psychology, Counseling, and Special Education

Email: brb288@psu.edu

Research Interests: Machine learning to inform scaffolding customization; Scaffolding argumentation during problem-based learning in middle and high school science; Synthesis of scaffolding research across STEM education and education levels; Scaffolding in preservice teacher education

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Syed Billah

  • Assistant Professor
  • CSRAI Affiliate

Department/Unit: College of Information Sciences and Technology

Email: skb5969@psu.edu

Research Interests: Accessible Computing; Trustworthy AI for Accessibility Assistive Technology

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Elizabeth Boyer

  • Professor of Water Resources
  • CSRAI Affiliate

Department/Unit: Department of Ecosystem Science and Management

Email: ewb100@psu.edu

Research Interests: water resources, geoinformatics, environmental sciences, science-technology-society interactions, research ethics

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Rick Brazier

  • Dean, University College
  • CSRAI Steering Committee

Department/Unit: University College

Email: rab27@psu.edu

Research Interests: Rick Brazier is senior associate dean for faculty and research for the 14 campuses that comprise the University College. He oversees all aspects of faculty development from hiring through promotions and sabbaticals, including grant proposals.Dr. Brazier is a professor of mathematics and geology. He began his Penn State career in 1996 as a research associate in EMS and then as an instructor and subsequently tenure line faculty member at Penn State DuBois.

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Jennifer Breese

  • Assistant Professor, Information Sciences and Technology
  • CSRAI Affiliate

Department/Unit: Penn State Greater Allegheny

Email: jzb545@psu.edu

Research Interests: How technology changes social norms; Cybersecurity, Information Systems Technology and Changing Social Norms, Emerging Technology

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