Affiliates
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
Priya Sharma
- Associate Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Education
Email: psharma@psu.edu
Research Interests: Ethical integration of AI and technology for teaching and learning, especially how to engage with AI as a collaborator in the process of pedagogical design, teaching, learning, and reflection/evaluation
Fuyuan Shen
- Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications
Email: fus1@psu.edu
Research Interests: Digital advertising and behavioral targeting, AI and algorithms in advertising, AI and privacy issues
Heather Shoenberger
- Associate Professor of Advertising
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Bellisario College of Communications
Email: hus503@psu.edu
Research Interests: How consumers navigate the media landscape of today's world, particularly in understanding individual and societal impacts of generative AI technologies.
Paul Shrivastava
- Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Smeal College of Business
Email: pxs993@psu.edu
Research Interests: AI for sustainable development, climate change, and AI ethics and policy
Puneet Singla
- Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Aerospace Engineering
Email: psingla@psu.edu
Research Interests: Data driven modeling, uncertainty quantification, control of aerospace vehicles
Martin Skladany
- Professor of Law
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Penn State Dickinson Law
Email: mus67@psu.edu
Research Interests: AI and culture, AI and politics, AI and ethics
Aleksandra (Seša) Slavković
- Professor of Statistics; Associate Dean for Research
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Eberly College of Science
Email: abs12@psu.edu
Research Interests:
Dawn Sowers
- AAC Research and Clinical Outreach Coordinator
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Email: djs6974@psu.edu
Research Interests: communication disorders, multiple disabilities, augmentative communication, visual support design
S. Shyam Sundar
- James P. Jimirro Professor of Media Effects
- CSRAI Director
Department/Unit: Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications
Email: sss12@psu.edu
Research Interests: S. Shyam Sundar is James P. Jimirro Professor of Media Effects and founder of the Media Effects Research Laboratory in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications. His research investigates social and psychological effects of interactive media, including mobile phones, social media, chatbots, robots, smart speakers and algorithms. His experiments investigate the role played by technological affordances in shaping user experience of mediated communications in a variety of interfaces. Current research pertains to fake news, chatbots and smart speakers, AI algorithms, online privacy, social media uses and effects, persuasive aspects of human-computer interaction (HCI), and the strategic use of communication technologies for motivating healthy and prosocial human behaviors.
Andrea Tapia
- Associate Dean for Research
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Information Sciences and Technology
Email: axh50@psu.edu
Research Interests: Dr. Tapia is a scholar of Crisis Informatics, the study of information discovery, needs, use and sharing in disaster or crisis settings. Dr. Tapia seeks to develop information and communication technology solutions that promote better decision-making across all responders. Dr. Tapia’s work focuses on making data generated by individuals or social networks via mobile information technologies useful to decision-makers within large institutions. Dr. Tapia’s work contributes to the solution of one of the stickiest problems currently facing emergency response organizations—the organizational inability to take advantage of an abundance of citizen-produced social media data.
Richard Taylor
- Palmer Chair and Professor of Telecommunications Studies and Law Emeritus
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Information Policy and Emerging Information Technologies
Email: rdt4@psu.edu
Research Interests: Assessing policy and legal implications of "Datasphere". Legal, political, social and economic impacts of new technologies including AI and "quantum" based applications. Seeking solutions to "irresolvable" normative disputes. Addressing challenges to digital human rights. Seeking theoretical foundation future information policies.