Affiliates

Satadru Dey

Assistant Professor
CSRAI Affiliate

Department/Unit: Mechanical Engineering

Research Interests: As the human civilization becomes more and more urban-centric with time, the vision of Smart Cities has been gaining increasing attention worldwide. The high-level goal of such Smart Cities is to provide better quality of services by optimally using the available resources and minimizing the operational cost. Some desirable key features of such Smart Cities are sustainability, safety and security, and efficiency. Motivated by this scenario, our research goal is to utilize control, learning theory, and modeling techniques in order to improve energy efficiency, tighten safety and security, and maintain sustainability of these Smart Cities.

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Min Ding

Bard Professor in Marketing
CSRAI Affiliate

Department/Unit: Smeal College of Business

Email: minding@psu.edu

Research Interests: Min Ding is Bard Professor of Marketing at Smeal College of Business and Affiliate Professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University, and has held past visiting positions at Australian National University, China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Fudan University, and MIT. Min received his Ph.D. in Marketing (with a 2nd concentration in Health Care System) from Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology from the Ohio State University, and B.S. in Genetics and Genetic Engineering from Fudan University.His current scholarly interest are in three domains: Artificial Intelligence and its Application in Commerce (Deep Learning Methods; Artificial Empathy; Intraperson Game Theory; Artificial Decision; Prescriptive Recommenders; Matching Systems), Innovation (Logical Creative Thinking [LCT]; Incentive Alignment [IA]; Innovation in Medicine; Adoption of Near-Term Disruptive Technologies), and Human and Societal Development (The Bubble Theory [Fair Development, Fair Wealth, Enlightened Needs]; Hualish Culture [originated from the greater China region]).

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J. Dumas

Associate Teaching Professor
CSRAI Affiliate

Department/Unit: Bellisario College of Communications

Email: jad21@psu.edu

Research Interests: ICT4D and local and international efforts to bridge the digital divide and link ICT to peoples empowerment to build better lives.

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David Fusco

Associate Teaching Professor
CSRAI Affiliate

Department/Unit: College of Information Sciences and Technology

Email: djf3@psu.edu

Research Interests: My research focuses on the intersection of AI, cybersecurity, and responsible automation. I am particularly interested in building privacy-preserving, explainable AI systems that support ethical decision-making, business-based assistants, and generative agent design. Keywords: responsible AI, cybersecurity, RAG, LLMs, LangChain, multimodal interaction, automation ethics, educational technology.

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Chris Gamrat

Associate Teaching Professor
CSRAI Affiliate

Department/Unit: College of Information Sciences and Technology

Email: cwg118@psu.edu

Research Interests: I am currently teaching IST 130, Artificial Intelligence and Art, and I will be teaching the introductory course for the new Information Technology Ethics and Compliance major, IEC 100, Introduction to Social Implications of Information Technology. Both of these courses require a critical eye on artificial intelligence and it's capabilities.

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Brian Gardner

Assistant Teaching Professor
CSRAI Affiliate

Department/Unit: Penn State Schuylkill

Email: bkg113@psu.edu

Research Interests: I am actively engaged in cybersecurity and AI research, co-authoring several papers with top academic scholars that have been published in respected academic journals. My current research focus is on immersive education where we are looking for opportunities to help students leverage AI and VR/AR technologies to improve vital interpersonal communications skills that will benefit them as they grow in their professional careers.

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Raghu Garud

Professor, Resident Director of Farrell Center
CSRAI Affiliate

Department/Unit: Smeal College of Business

Email: rgarud@psu.edu

Research Interests: Socially responsible innovation.

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Vikash Gayah

Director of the Larson Transportation Institute and Professor
CSRAI Affiliate

Department/Unit: College of Engineering

Email: vvg104@psu.edu

Research Interests: Dr. Gayah’s research focuses on urban mobility, traffic operations, traffic flow theory, traffic safety and public transportation. His research approach includes a combination of analytical models, micro-simulations and empirical analysis of transportation data.

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John Gershenson

Director, Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship
CSRAI Affiliate

Department/Unit: College of Engineering

Email: jzg322@psu.edu

Research Interests: Product, process, and venture creation in developing communities. Particularly East Africa.

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Homero Gil de Zúñiga

Professor
CSRAI Affiliate

Department/Unit: Bellisario College of Communications

Email: hgzn@psu.edu

Research Interests: Professor Gil de Zúñiga's research generally seeks to clarify the impact and effects that AI and algorithmic based social media largely have over society. Particularly, his research sheds light on AI and social media benefits and perils revolving the creation of an informed public opinion and a healthier democracy.

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Rick Gilmore

Professor of Psychology
CSRAI Affiliate

Department/Unit: College of the Liberal Arts

Email: rog1@psu.edu

Research Interests: Visual and auditory perception, action, and memory in infants, children, and adults using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods; co-founder and co-director of Databrary.org, the world's only research repository specialized for storing and sharing video.

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Mahanth Gowda

Associate Professor
CSRAI Affiliate

Department/Unit: College of Engineering

Email: mkg31@psu.edu

Research Interests: Wireless Networking, Mobile and Wearable Computing, Machine Learning with applications to Cyber Physical Systems, IoT and human behavioral sensing.

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