Affiliates
Dana Calacci
- Assistant Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Information Sciences and Technology
Email: dvc5952@psu.edu
Research Interests: The socio-technical and legal impacts of datafication and AI on communities, especially worker groups. Through collaborations like the Workers Algorithm Observatory, which she helps direct, she designs and deploys technologies with communities that aim to answer their most pressing questions about the impact of AI, new platforms, and surveillance on their lives.
Daryl Cameron
- Associate Professor of Psychology
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of the Liberal Arts
Email: cdc49@psu.edu
Research Interests: Dr. Cameron’s research and teaching focus on the psychological processes involved in empathy and moral decision-making. Much of his work examines motivational factors that shape empathic emotions and behaviors toward others.
Betsy Campbell
- Associate Teaching Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Information Sciences and Technology
Email: bjc28@psu.edu
Research Interests: Diversity inclusion and belonging; Transparency of process; Team work; Use of AI in innovative entrepreneurial work
Jiyoung Cha
- Associate Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Bellisario College of Communications
Email: jjc7735@psu.edu
Research Interests: Media industries, media management and entrepreneurship, platforms, AI-powered recommendation algorithms, AI-powered companion chatbots, communication technology, consumer behavior
Jinghui Chen
- Assistant Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Information Sciences and Technology
Email: jzc5917@psu.edu
Research Interests: My research interests broadly include the theory and applications in different aspects of machine learning (machine learning robustness, machine learning efficiency, machine learning safety and privacy, etc.), especially adversarial machine learning.
Xiao Chen
- Teaching Professor in Human Resource Management
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of the Liberal Arts
Email: xiaochen@psu.edu
Research Interests: My research explores the intersection of human behavior, technology, and ethics in organizations, with a focus on goal-setting, (subconscious) motivation, and evidence-based management in AI-enabled workplaces. I examine how AI can enhance, rather than replace, human decision-making, creativity, and learning. Keywords: AI in Human Resource Management and Employment Relations; Human–AI Collaboration; Evidence-Based Management; Ethical and Responsible AI; Goal-Setting and Motivation; Cross-Cultural Management.
Huanyu (Larry) Cheng
- James L. Henderson, Jr. Memorial Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Engineering
Email: huanyu.cheng@psu.edu
Research Interests: The research in the Cheng group focuses on the design, fabrication, and application of skin-like wearable devices and degradable electronics for biomedicine.
Sy-Miin Chow
- Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Health and Human Development
Email: quc16@psu.edu
Research Interests: Intensive longitudinal data, mobile health, dynamical systems, missing data, personalizing AI and forecasts
Kelley Cotter
- Assistant Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Information Sciences and Technology
Email: kcotter@psu.edu
Research Interests: My research explores how algorithms and AI shape social, cultural, and political life, and vice versa. Much of my work focuses on how people learn about and make sense of (social media platform) algorithms. In this, I'm interested questions about power, individual and collective agency, governance of algorithms (particularly bottom-up governance), life chances and opportunities, among other matters.
Daren Coudriet
- Education Program Manager, Nittany AI Aliiance
- CSRAI Steering Committee
Department/Unit: College of Information Sciences and Technology
Email: dlc122@psu.edu
Research Interests:
Rick Crossen
- Assistant Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Pennsylvania College of Technology
Email: jrc51@pct.edu
Research Interests: Interest in Information Systems research with a focus on the crossroads between enterprise information systems, education, and artificial intelligence use as well as improving engagement in online learning environments.
Max Crowley
- Professor
- CSRAI Steering Committee
Department/Unit: College of Health and Human Development
Email: dmc397@psu.edu
Research Interests: Max Crowley is a prevention scientist investigating how to optimize investments in healthy development and wellbeing. This work sits at the intersection of social policy, prevention science and public finance. His program of research is motivated by a desire to increase the use of cost-effective, evidence-based preventive strategies to improve the lives of children and families. To accomplish this, his work aims to (1) strengthen methods for benefit-cost analyses of preventive interventions, (2) optimize prevention strategies’ impact and (3) develop best practices for how to translate these investments into evidence-based policy. In this manner, Dr. Crowley seeks to not only understand the costs and benefits of prevention, but aim to develop better interventions and encourage them to be disseminated widely.Dr. Crowley's research is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institute of Child Health & Human Development and National Institute on Aging as well as the Robert Wood Johnson, Laura & John Arnold, Annie E. Casey, Michael and Susan Dell and Doris Duke Charitable Foundations.
Christopher Dancy
- Harold and Inge Marcus Industrial and Manufacturing Career Development Associate Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, of Computer Science and Engineering, and of African American Studies
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Engineering
Email: cld5070@psu.edu
Research Interests: I have research interests in AI and Cognitive science and related research interests in AI & Society, particularly as it relates to antiblackness. With my research, I explore the intersections between individuals, sociocultural processes and systems (especially those related to antiblackness), and AI systems.
Michelle Darnell
- Director, Tarriff Center for Business Ethics and Social Responsibility
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Smeal College of Business
Email: mzd560@psu.edu
Research Interests: Normative decision making; organizational ontology and institutionalism; authenticity; developing/sustaining ethical organizational cultures; pedagogical techniques in values-based education; ethical leadership
Bruce Desmarais
- William and Monica DeGrandis-McCourtney Early Career Professor in Political Science
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of the Liberal Arts
Email: bdesmarais@psu.edu
Research Interests: Bruce's research is focused on methodological development and applications that further our understanding of the complex interdependence that underlies politics, policymaking, and public administration. Methodologically, Bruce focuses on methods for modeling networks, analyzing dynamics on networks, and experiments on networks. Primary application areas of interest to Bruce include public policy diffusion, campaign finance, legislative networks, and internal government communication networks.