Affiliates
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.
Brian Lee
- Assistant Professor of Information Systems
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Smeal College of Business
Email: brian.lee@psu.edu
Research Interests: My research centers around the future of work, with a specific focus on crowdsourcing, fintech, platform management, and social equity and sustainability.
Dongwon Lee
- Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Information Sciences and Technology
Email: dongwon@psu.edu
Research Interests: Building computational solutions to model, detect, or prevent cyber frauds and fakes and understanding their human factor issues
Siu Ling Leung
- Associate Teaching Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Engineering
Email: szl12@psu.edu
Research Interests: Undergraduate engineering education, particularly on creating innovative learning tools to enhance student engagement, improve cognitive skills, and equip students to address real-world challenges.
Daryl Lim
- Professor of Law
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Penn State Dickinson Law
Email: daryllim@psu.edu
Research Interests: I am interested in national and global trends in IP and competition policy and how they influence and are influenced by law, technology, economics, and politics. I help policymakers, attorneys, corporate counsel, scholars, and the public to make sense of the world around them.
Désirée Lim
- Associate Professor of Philosophy
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of the Liberal Arts
Email: dyl10@psu.edu
Research Interests: I am interested in the moral status of artificial intelligence, such as whether AI agents could have rights or even be accorded dignity. Relatedly, I am particularly interested in the phenomenon of AI-human relationships, such as between people and companion bots.
Lu Lin
- Assistant Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Information Sciences and Technology
Email: lxl5598@psu.edu
Research Interests: My research interest is trustworthy machine learning on graph-structured data, concerning multiple aspects of trustworthiness, including fairness, robustness, interpretability and privacy.
Shurong Lin
- Postdoctoral Researcher
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Eberly College of Science
Email: sfl5882@psu.edu
Research Interests: My research lies at the intersection of data privacy, modern statistics, and machine learning, with a focus on differential privacy and its applications in responsible data science. I develop privacy-preserving algorithms and synthetic data generation methods to enable trustworthy, reproducible analysis of sensitive datasets. My work is grounded in statistical theory and motivated by real-world deployments, such as the U.S. Census.
Siyu Liu
- Associate Professor of Criminal Justice
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Penn State Harrisburg
Email: sul445@psu.edu
Research Interests: Police legitimacy, police and constitutional protections, the death penalty, and criminal desistance
Siyuan Liu
- Assistant Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Supply Chain and Information Systems/ Smeal College of Business
Email: siyuan@psu.edu
Research Interests: Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Financial Technology
Fenglong Ma
- Associate Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Information Sciences and Technology
Email: ffm5105@psu.edu
Research Interests: My research interest is on artificial intelligence for healthcare, especially for disease risk prediction by modeling longitudinal electronic health data, medical natural language processing, robust and federated machine learning.
Andrea Matwyshyn
- Professor of Law and Engineering Policy
- CSRAI Steering Committee
Department/Unit: Penn State Law
Email: andreamm@psu.edu
Research Interests: Andrea Matwyshyn is founding director of the Penn State PILOT Lab (Policy Innovation Lab of Tomorrow), an interdisciplinary technology policy lab, and a professor with Penn State Law and the College of Engineering. She is an academic and author whose work focuses on technology and information policy and law, particularly information security/”cybersecurity,” artificial intelligence, consumer privacy, intellectual property, health technology, and technology workforce pipeline policy. Previously, she was professor of law/professor of computer science (by courtesy) at Northeastern University, where she served as co-director of the Center for Law, Innovation, and Creativity (CLIC). She is a faculty affiliate of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School and as a senior fellow of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcraft Center on International Security.
Heather McCune Bruhn
- Associate Teaching Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Art History
Email: hcm1@psu.edu
Research Interests: I specialize in medieval goldsmithwork, more broadly on medieval art, and the materials and techniques of art history. I also work on pedagogical innovations and the ethical use of AI in student work.