Affiliates
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
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.
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.
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
- Assistant 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
- Associate Dean for Innovation and Technology
- 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.
Sascha Meinrath
- Palmer Chair in Telecommunications
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Telecom & Media Industries, Bellisario College of Communications
Email: sascha@psu.edu
Research Interests: Sascha Meinrath is the Palmer Chair in Telecommunications at Penn State University and a renowned technology policy expert. He is internationally recognized for his work over the past two decades as a community internet pioneer, social entrepreneur, and angel investor. Sascha is widely published in both academic and media outlets, including Critical Studies in Media Communications, International Journal of Communications, Journal of Communications Law and Policy, Journal of Internet Law, Journal for Community Informatics, IEEE Internet Computing Magazine, IEEE Spectrum, Foreign Policy, The Hill, Time Magazine, Politico, Slate, The Guardian, and many others. He was elected as an Ashoka Fellow for Social Entrepreneurship in 2012, and has been named to the “TIME Tech 40” as one of the most influential figures in technology, to the “Top 100” in Newsweek's Digital Power Index, and is a recipient of the Public Knowledge IP3 Award for excellence in public interest advocacy. Prior to joining Penn State, Sascha was Vice-President of the New America think tank, where he founded the Open Technology Institute in 2008 and built it into one of the largest public interest tech policy organizations in Washington, DC.
Michele Mekel
- Interim Director, Bioethics Program
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of the Liberal Arts
Email: mmekel@psu.edu
Research Interests: Biomedical Bioethics, Health Humanities, Bioethics and Emerging Technologies, Etc.
Kevin Munger
- Assistant Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Department of Political Science
Email: kmm7999@psu.edu
Research Interests: social media; media economics; digital field experiments; YouTube; meta-science
Rebecca Napolitano
- Assistant Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Engineering
Email: nap@psu.edu
Research Interests: Resilience of the built environment; adaptive reuse for sustainable, affordable housing; cultural heritage buildings; UAV monitoring of buildings; sustainable materials development
David Norloff
- Assistant Teaching Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Bellisario College of Communications, Telecommunications and Media Industries Department
Email: dcn101@psu.edu
Research Interests: The intersection of Autonomous Vehicles, Artificial Intelligence, Wireless Networks, and Wearable Devices.
Mary Beth Oliver
- Bellisario Professor of Media Studies
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Bellisario College of Communications
Email: mbo1@psu.edu
Research Interests: I am interested in the ways that media can enhance well-being and social good.
Ibukun Osunbunmi
- Assistant Research Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Leonhard Center for Enhancement of Engineering Education
Email: iso5023@psu.edu
Research Interests: Artificial intelligence and machine learning in engineering education, AI-enhanced pedagogy and assessment, virtual reality-enhanced learning, broadening participation in engineering education, student engagement and retention