Affiliates
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
Abhronil Sengupta
- Associate Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Engineering
Email: sengupta@psu.edu
Research Interests: Neuromorphic computing
Amit Sharma
- Edward Friedman and Stuart Mann Professor of Hospitality Management
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Health and Human Development, School of Hospitality Management
Email: aus22@psu.edu
Research Interests: My research, conducted through the Food Decision Research Lab (FDRL), uses choice modeling and behavioral economics to study food decisions in food-away-from-home contexts such as restaurants, schools, and other foodservice environments; and small business financial decision-making under uncertainty. I am increasingly interested in AI as a leverage point for improving both types of decisions, and in the ethical implications of AI and robotics in shaping consumer and business decision environments.
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
- Donald P. Bellisario Professor of Advertising
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Bellisario College of Communications
Email: fus1@psu.edu
Research Interests: Digital advertising and behavioral targeting, AI and algorithms in advertising, AI and privacy issues
Hajime Shimao
- Assistant Professor of Data Analytics
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Penn State Great Valley
Email: hjs5825@psu.edu
Research Interests: Economics of AI; Theoretical limit of AI preditability; Fairness/Interpretability of AI