Affiliates
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
Holly Overton
- Associate Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications
Email: hko104@psu.edu
Research Interests: Dr. Overton conducts public relations research in the areas of corporate social responsibility communication and corporate social advocacy. Her research also focuses on examining psychological factors that impact information processing and engagement among publics, nonprofit public relations, and the persuasive impact of messages and technological factors in public relations contexts.
Bing Pan
- Associate Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Health and Human Development
Email: bup63@psu.edu
Research Interests: My research interests include big data and data analytics in tourism and parks, including using machine learning and artificial intelligence to monitor, predict, and nudge visitor behavior.
Herschel Pangborn
- Assistant Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Mechanical Engineering
Email: hxp5027@psu.edu
Research Interests: My research lab focuses on the dynamic modeling, design, and control of energy systems, including aircraft, cars, and buildings. A particular focus is predictive hierarchical control frameworks that coordinate decision-making across multiple systems, timescales, and energy domains. Our goal is to develop and apply mathematical techniques for assuring safe and efficient autonomy in complex energy systems.
Becky Passonneau
- Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Natural Language Processing Department of Computer Science & Engineering College of Engineering
Email: rjp49@psu.edu
Research Interests: My area of research is natural language processing, with a focus on computational pragmatics. I investigate how the same combinations of words have different meanings in different contexts, in spoken or written language.
Vincent Perez
- Business Lecturer
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Penn State Brandywine
Email: vkp5236@psu.edu
Research Interests: Competitive and disruptive strategies, including the effective utilization of AI, and have a deep commitment to social entrepreneurship and supporting non-profit organizations.
Patrick Plaisance
- Don W. Davis Professor in Ethics
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Bellisario College of Communications
Email: plp22@psu.edu
Research Interests: Current research focuses on moral psychology in media practice & professional culture; moral ecology of digital media organizations; ethical implications of media technologies embedded in digital media cultures (algorithmic uses, social media platform affordances, etc.), to culminate in planned book project on philosophy of technology critiques of digital media. Theorizing also focuses on critiquing media technology implications with a virtue ethics framework with the aim of identifying, as Shannon Vallor says, a 'technological future worth wanting.'
Robin Qiu
- Professor of Information Science
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Information Science/Engineering Division at Penn State Great Valley
Email: robinqiu@psu.edu
Research Interests: Big Data, Data/Business Analytics, Smart Service Systems, Service Science, Social Computing, Service Operations and Management, Information Systems, and Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management
Ihab Ragai
- Associate Professor of Engineering
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Manufacturing Processes and Systems, Penn State Behrend
Email: ifr1@psu.edu
Research Interests: Advanced Manufacturing Processes, Smart Manufacturing Systems
Sarah Rajtmajer
- Assistant Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of IST & Rock Ethics Institute
Email: smr48@psu.edu
Research Interests: Machine learning and AI, trust in information, privacy, metascience
Arvind Rangaswamy
- University Distinguished Professor of Marketing
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Smeal College of Business
Email: axr15@psu.edu
Research Interests: Marketing Analytics and Digital Marketing, with a current focus on empirical analysis involving social networks, text and sentiment analysis, and influencer marketing.
Wesley Reinhart
- Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
- CSRAI Steering Committee
Department/Unit: College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
Email: reinhart@psu.edu
Research Interests: Wesley Reinhart received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. He attended Princeton University on a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, where he worked on strategies for predicting, understanding, and controlling colloidal crystallization using large-scale computer simulations and machine learning methods. After completing his Ph.D. in Chemical and Biological Engineering, he worked as a Research Scientist at Siemens Corporate Technology. His research initiatives there focused on computational geometry, knowledge representation, and exploiting the structure-function relationship in manufacturing contexts. He joined Penn State’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering in 2020 and holds an appointment as an Institute for Computational and Data Sciences Co-hire.
Steven Rice
- Assistant Professor of Composition and Music Technology
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: School of Music/Arts and Architecture
Email: scr5385@psu.edu
Research Interests: Anti-racist artificial intelligence, anti-racist music information retrieval, computer-assisted composition, computer-assisted music theory, digital signal processing, unsupervised detection of racist musical topics, unsupervised identification of sound sources within signals
Stuart Selber
- Professor of English and Director of Digital Education
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of the Liberal Arts
Email: selber@psu.edu
Research Interests: Technical Communication, Computers and Composition, Human-Computer Interaction
Abhronil Sengupta
- Monkowski Career Development Assistant Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Engineering
Email: sengupta@psu.edu
Research Interests: Neuromorphic computing