Affiliates
Kenneth Huang
- Assistant Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Information Sciences and Technology
Email: txh710@psu.edu
Research Interests: Dr. Huang's research lies in the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), imagining new possibilities of human-AI collaborations.
Eric Hudson
- Associate Professor, Physics
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Eberly College of Science
Email: ewh10@psu.edu
Research Interests: I'm interested in Physics Education Research. Specifically related to AI, I'm currently doing studies on using AI as a collaborative group member or learning assistant (LA) in student learning, and on the use of AI tools in grading complex, long-form physics problems.
Kirshna Jayakar
- Professor and Telecommunications Department Head
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Bellisario College of Communications
Email: kpj1@psu.edu
Research Interests: information policy, broadband access; AI policy; media and telecommunications economics
Matt Jordan
- Professor of Media Studies
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Bellisario College of Communications
Email: mjf3@psu.edu
Research Interests: The way in which media technologies, fueled by powerful technocentric ideologies, overdetermine how cultures communicate and maintain their sense of self.
Md Faisal Kabir
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Penn State Harrisburg
Email: mpk5904@psu.edu
Research Interests: Machine Learning (ML) and Data Science and their applications in healthcare and various interdisciplinary fields, Health Informatics, Explainable/Interpretable ML.
Nima Khodakarami
- Assistant Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Health Policy and Administration, Penn State Beaver
Email: nzk26@psu.edu
Research Interests: My research interests fall broadly within multiple areas of health services with a focus on vulnerable and underserved healthcare populations. I am especially interested in the evaluation of health policies and how socioeconomic factors affect the quality, access, and outcome of care.
Daniel Kifer
- Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Computer Science
Email: dkifer@cse.psu.edu
Research Interests: Creating data releases that protect confidentiality of data provided by individuals or businesses. Differential privacy and formal privacy.
ChanMin Kim
- Associate Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Education
Email: cmk604@psu.edu
Research Interests: I research various designs for improving equity through education. For example, my recently completed project, funded by U.S. Department of Justice, was for social justice among immigrant women and children through culturally sustaining design in gamified simulations. My newest NSF project is about science teacher learning to teach scientific writing and we are using NLP techniques to design automated scaffolding for *all* students. Research keywords: ethical and equitable use of AI in education; teacher learning; K-12 school outreach; STEM education
Younhee Kim
- Associate Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Public Administration
Email: yzk46@psu.edu
Research Interests: Public and performance management; Public entrepreneurship; E-governance; Data and information; Citizen participation
Aaron Knochel
- Associate Professor of Art Education
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Arts and Architecture
Email: adk176@psu.edu
Research Interests: I research creative practice and learning within digital visual culture. Areas of focus encompass generative AI, software studies, and digital fabrication.
David Koslicki
- Associate Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: CSE
Email: dmk333@psu.edu
Research Interests: My research involves developing rigorously justified algorithms for computational biology, focusing on metagenomics and high throughput sequencing data. In addition, I am interested in large-scale integration of biological data and learning on the resulting graph databases.
Yubo Kou
- Assistant Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Information Sciences and Technology
Email: yvk5270@psu.edu
Research Interests: Human-AI interaction; Fairness Perception of AI; AI in Content Moderation
Priya Kumar
- Assistant Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Information Sciences and Technology
Email: priya.kumar@psu.edu
Research Interests: Dr. Priya Kumar studies how privacy and agency operate when everyday life is datafied. She draws on theories and qualitative methods from social computing, digital media studies, and science and technology studies to critically examine how certain kinds of technology use come to be treated as problematic, particularly in the context of childhood and parenting. Her research aims to shift digital technology discourse and design away from a focus on individual control and toward more networked understandings of privacy and agency.
Nina Lauharatanahirun
- Assistant Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Health and Human Development
Email: nina.lauhara@psu.edu
Research Interests: Understanding the neurobehavioral mechanisms of social decision-making with the goal of leveraging theoretically grounded neurobehavioral signals for the design of algorithmic solutions that improve human-human and human-agent team decisions
Antonio Laverghetta Jr.
- Postdoctoral Scholar
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of the Liberal Arts
Email: aml7990@psu.edu
Research Interests: My research sits at the intersection of psychometrics, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing. I am broadly interested in the development and validation of educational and psychological assessments using AI. Specific areas of expertise include automated item generation, item parameter estimation, and automated scoring using large language models.