Affiliates

Vikash Gayah
- Associate Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Civil and Environmental 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.

John Gershenson
- Director, Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Engineering, SEDTAPP
Email: jzg322@psu.edu
Research Interests: Product, process, and venture creation in developing communities. Particularly East Africa.

Homero Gil de Zúñiga
- Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Donald P. 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.

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.

Mahanth Gowda
- Assistant Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Computer Science and 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.

John Greer
- Department Head, Geospatial and Data Sciences
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Penn State Applied Research Lab
Email: jbg6124@psu.edu
Research Interests: Machine learning, predictive analytics, mathematical and statistical modeling; applications in national defense and intelligence.

Xinning Gui
- Assistant Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Information Sciences and Technology
Email: xinninggui@psu.edu
Research Interests: Human-AI interaction; Human-Centered AI; AI in Healthcare

Ilgin Guler
- Assistant Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Civil and Environmental Engineering/COE
Email: sig123@psu.edu
Research Interests: Connected and autonomous vehicles, Infrastructure management

Anne Hoag
- Associate Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Center for Penn State Student Entrepreneurship/Undergraduate Education/Bellisario
Email: amh13@psu.edu
Research Interests: entrepreneurship, innovation, higher education, pedagogy

Jacob Holster
- Lecturer, Music Education
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Arts and Architecture
Email: jbh6331@psu.edu
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Relational Ethics, Educational Psychology

Vasant Honavar
- Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Information Sciences and Technology
Email: vuh14@psu.edu
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Causal Inference Deep Learning Knowledge Representation Data Sciences Scientific AI Biomedical and Health Informatics Algorithmic Bias, Fairness, and Accountability

Hadi Hosseini
- Assistant Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Information Sciences and Technology
Email: hbh5279@psu.edu
Research Interests: Algorithmic Economics Computational Social Choice Fairness in AI Multiagent Systems

Xianbiao (XB) Hu
- Assistant Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Email: xbhu@psu.edu
Research Interests: My research area is smart transportation systems, especially on the autonomous vehicles, electric vehicles, transportation big data analytics, and transportation system modeling. AI plays significant roles in my research, especially those related with autonomous vehicles.

Yuqing Hu
- Assistant Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Department of Architectural Engineering
Email: yfh5204@psu.edu
Research Interests: Urban energy modeling and community resilience, building information modeling

Jingzhi Huang
- Professor of Finance and Mathematics, Faculty Chair in Finance
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Finance Department, Smeal College of Business
Email: jxh56@psu.edu
Research Interests: Credit risk, Fixed-income markets, Derivatives markets, Mutual funds and Hedge funds, and Machine Learning