Affiliates
Herschel Pangborn
- Assistant Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of 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.
Semin Park
- Assistant Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Smeal College of Business
Email: svp6397@psu.edu
Research Interests: My research examines how teams adapt, coordinate, and make sense of change, particularly when new technologies or shifting memberships disrupt established ways of working. I study the dynamic processes through which team members interpret one another’s expertise, contributions, and credibility over time. With CSRAI, I explore how the integration of generative AI into collaborative work reshapes team dynamics: how people utilize or conceal AI assistance, how such behaviors influence emerging power and status structures, and what this means for trust, fairness, and performance in hybrid human–AI teams.
Becky Passonneau
- Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: 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
- 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: 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
- Professor of Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Penn State Behrend
Email: ifr1@psu.edu
Research Interests: Advanced Manufacturing Processes, Smart Manufacturing Systems
Andrea Ragonese
- Associate Teaching Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Engineering
Email: amj108@psu.edu
Research Interests: My research investigates the socially responsible application of AI within online STEM and engineering education, focusing on its integration with equity, inclusion, and decolonizing approaches. I examine ethical methods for building, deploying, and using AI tools to support learning and foster inclusive communities of practice for online students."
Sarah Rajtmajer
- Associate Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Information Sciences and Technology
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
- 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.
Jason Reuscher
- Associate Librarian, Research and Instruction Librarian
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: University Libraries
Email: jar48@psu.edu
Research Interests: I am interested in how AI modelling can effectively transliterate culinary manuscripts written in Kurrentschrift to modern typeface and how AI can connect recipes and culinary techniques across anonymous and authored manuscripts in digitized collections.By using AI models to compare ingredients and cooking processes from German-language manuscripts in digitized holdings, my hope is to uncover clues to manuscript provenance and culinary novelty. On a broader level, I am also interested in how the introduction and spread of ingredients and culinary techniques as a result of the Colombian Exchange influenced European ingredient usage, culinary technique, and cuisine during the early modern period.
Steven Rice
- Assistant Professor of Music
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of 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
Donghyun Rim
- Associate Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Engineering
Email: dxr51@psu.edu
Research Interests: My research focuses on integrating artificial intelligence with indoor air quality science to improve human health and well-being. I develop AI-driven digital twins, predictive models, and smart control strategies that optimize building ventilation and filtration, reducing pollutant exposure and infection risks. Ultimately, my work advances healthier, more resilient, and energy-efficient built environments, with particular attention to protecting vulnerable populations.
Stuart Selber
- Professor of English
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of the Liberal Arts
Email: selber@psu.edu
Research Interests: Technical Communication, Computers and Composition, Human-Computer Interaction