Affiliates
Saeed Abdullah
- Associate Professor, Human-Centered Computing and Social Informatics
- 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
Sydney Axson
- Assistant Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Nese College of Nursing
Email: saaxson@psu.edu
Research Interests: Bioethics, informed consent, decision-making, nursing, substance use, pain
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.
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.
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
Roger Beaty
- Associate Professor of Psychology
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of the Liberal Arts
Email: rub736@psu.edu
Research Interests: I study human and AI creativity, developing large language model–based assessments and psychometric tools for education, and investigating cognitive and brain mechanisms with neuroimaging (fMRI, fNIRS).
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.
Liza Behrens
- Assistant Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Nese College of Nursing
Email: llb237@psu.edu
Research Interests: My research interest is in improving the quality of care and quality of life for older adults living in long-term care settings. I do this by developing and testing theory based interventions to improve decision-making for aging individuals with dementia.
Brian Belland
- Professor
- 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
Kevin Bennett
- Teaching Professor of Psychology
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Penn State Beaver
Email: klb48@psu.edu
Research Interests: My research explores individual differences in personality and human activity in the built environment.
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
Elizabeth Boyer
- Professor of Environmental Science
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Agricultural Sciences
Email: ewb100@psu.edu
Research Interests: water resources, geoinformatics, environmental sciences, science-technology-society interactions, research ethics
Rick Brazier
- Dean, University College
- CSRAI Steering Committee
Department/Unit: Vice President for Commonwealth Campuses
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.
Jennifer Breese
- Associate 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
Laura Cabrera
- Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Philosophy, and Bioethics
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Engineering
Email: lcabrera@psu.edu
Research Interests: My interests focus on the ethical and societal implications of neurotechnologies used for treatment as well as for enhancement purposes. I have been working on projects at the interface of normative, conceptual and empirical approaches, exploring attitudes and ethical concerns of professionals, patients and members of the public toward brain interventions.