Student Affiliates

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Neil Ashtekar

  • Computer Science and Enginerring
  • CSRAI Student Affiliate

College: College of Engineering

Major/Program: Computer Science and Enginerring

Email: nca5096@psu.edu

Research Interests: Continual/Lifelong Learning, Biologically-Inspired Algorithms, Causal Inference, Machine Learning, Data Science

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Afiya Ayman

  • Informatics
  • CSRAI Student Affiliate

College: College of Information Sciences and Technology

Major/Program: Informatics

Email: axa6517@psu.edu

Research Interests: My PhD research focuses on contemporary computational sciences, including and not limited to Machine Learning and Data Science. I work with different machine learning algorithms to solve real-world problems such as enhancing the energy efficiency of transit vehicles, detecting harmful tumors, identifying traffic congestion sources, etc. Keywords: Machine Learning; Data Science; AI for Social Good

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Penny Ann Barr

  • Workforce Education and Development
  • CSRAI Student Affiliate

College: College of Education

Major/Program: Workforce Education and Development

Email: pab10@psu.edu

Research Interests: Advanced leadership specializing in Artificial Intelligence. How software, networks, and AI are changing the fundamental nature of how companies do business and compete. Talent development through human and machine collaboration. Learning and employment in the twenty-first century. Brick & mortar versus online learning supported by tactile internet, VR/AR and 5G/6G network capabilities. Reimagining/Reinventing/Reengineering the future of HR. How has the Fourth Industrial Revolution redefined the workforce? Doctoral thesis: Artificial Intelligence, Automation, & Robotics and the Future of Work.

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Debjyoti Bhattacharya

  • Materials Science and Engineering
  • CSRAI Student Affiliate

College: College of Earth and Mineral Sciences

Major/Program: Materials Science and Engineering

Email: dxb5775@psu.edu

Research Interests: I work on using machine learning to study the behaviors of polymers. Recently, I have worked on studying the self-assembly behavior of sequence defined macromolecules using recurrent neural networks. Currently, I am working on manifold learning of sequence-defined macromolecules using dimensionality reduction techniques such as Umap, to study the trajectories of polymers to uncover hidden trend and patterns in the dataset via unsupervised learning.

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Bochuan Cao

  • Informatics
  • CSRAI Student Affiliate

College: College of Information Sciences and Technology

Major/Program: Informatics

Email: bxc5597@psu.edu

Research Interests: machine learning robustness, machine learning efficiency, adversarial machine learning, few-shot learning

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Ethan Capitano

  • English and Philosophy
  • CSRAI Student Affiliate

College: College of the Liberal Arts

Major/Program: English and Philosophy

Email: emc6398@psu.edu

Research Interests: In an age defined by data and dissemination, I critically analyze the rhetoric of artificial intelligence, journalism, and curricula to understand the bias and rhetoric implicit in major information outlets. I aspire to establish ethical, transparent AI dissemination that accurately reflects the systemic injustices in society and educate the masses on rhetorical methods used to create deceptive narratives.

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Tatiana Chakravorti

  • Informatics
  • CSRAI Student Affiliate

College: College of Information Sciences and Technology

Major/Program: Informatics

Email: tfc5416@psu.edu

Research Interests: Human-Computer Interaction, Human-Centered AI, Human AI interaction, Open Science Practices, AI Ethics, Qualitative methods, and Quantitative methods

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Kanishka Chandrakar

  • Computer Science
  • CSRAI Student Affiliate

College: College of Engineering

Major/Program: Computer Science

Email: kbc5646@psu.edu

Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, developing technologies in machine learning and robotics

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Marmik Chaudhari

  • Computer Science
  • CSRAI Student Affiliate

College: College of Engineering

Major/Program: Computer Science

Email: mbc6219@psu.edu

Research Interests: Natural language processing and computer vision, text generators, Markov chains

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Chenxi Chen

  • Transportation Engineering
  • CSRAI Student Affiliate

College: College of Engineering

Major/Program: Transportation Engineering

Email: ckc5844@psu.edu

Research Interests: Connected and autonomous vehicle, computer vision

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Vijay Bhaskar Chiluveru

  • Energy & Mineral Engineering
  • CSRAI Student Affiliate

College: College of Earth and Mineral Sciences

Major/Program: Energy & Mineral Engineering

Email: vbc5136@psu.edu

Research Interests: data analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, statistical learning, climate change, renewables, energy

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Firdaus Choudhury

  • Computer Science
  • CSRAI Student Affiliate

College: College of Engineering

Major/Program: Computer Science

Email: fac5186@psu.edu

Research Interests: Intersection of AI with social causes like public health or agriculture, finding solutions for issues affecting marginalized or impoverished communities, advocating for the safe and useful implications of AI in daily life

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Edwin Clatus

  • Computer Science
  • CSRAI Student Affiliate

College: College of Information Sciences and Technology

Major/Program: Computer Science

Email: emc6390@psu.edu

Research Interests: Machine learning, deep learning, ethical uses of AI, using AI to advance business

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Kiara Colon

  • Psychology
  • CSRAI Student Affiliate

College: College of the Liberal Arts

Major/Program: Psychology

Email: kzc5817@psu.edu

Research Interests: The policy and governance of artificial intelligence, the different ways to ensure privacy and protect data, ways to minimize the misuse of artificial intelligence.

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Soumyadeep Das

  • Computer Science
  • CSRAI Student Affiliate

College: College of Engineering

Major/Program: Computer Science

Email: sqd5790@psu.edu

Research Interests: NLP, solving gender bias using AI, how to make AI safer, finding trends in health data for humans and animals

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