Student Affiliates

Shraddha Pathak

Informatics
CSRAI Student Affiliate

College: College of Information Sciences and Technology

Major/Program: Informatics

Email: ssp5547@psu.edu

Research Interests: Economics and computation, computational social choice

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Timothy Prestosh

Computer Science
CSRAI Student Affiliate

College: College of Engineering

Major/Program: Computer Science

Email: tjp6117@psu.edu

Research Interests: Aligning AI to human-based values and removing biases from its generation; developing reasoning models that can help to soon produce novel and feasible ideas.

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Oviya Raja

Information Sciences and Technology
CSRAI Student Affiliate

College: College of Information Sciences and Technology

Major/Program: Information Sciences and Technology

Email: omr5104@psu.edu

Research Interests: Natural language processing (NLP) and its uses in cybersecurity, with a focus on threat detection, anomaly identification, and privacy preservation

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Sahana Ramachandran

Data Sciences (Computational Data Sciences)
CSRAI Student Affiliate

College: College of Engineering

Major/Program: Data Sciences (Computational Data Sciences)

Email: ffs5175@psu.edu

Research Interests: Holistic use of AI, ML centric data science

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Rohan Rastogi

Computer Science
CSRAI Student Affiliate

College: College of Engineering

Major/Program: Computer Science

Email: rastogi@psu.edu

Research Interests: Intersection of robotics and AI with a focus on their applications within the medical industry; developing intelligent robotic systems and machine learning algorithms to enhance medical diagnostics, surgical procedures, and patient care, ultimately aiming to improve health care outcomes and quality of life.

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Asa Reynolds

Cybersecurity Analytics and Operations
CSRAI Student Affiliate

College: College of Information Sciences and Technology

Major/Program: Cybersecurity Analytics and Operations

Email: amr8356@psu.edu

Research Interests: Latent diffusion modeling; Image synthesis; Procedural generation; Agent simulation; Emergent behavior

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Tristian Schmidt

Political Science
CSRAI Student Affiliate

College: College of the Liberal Arts

Major/Program: Political Science

Email: tcs5501@psu.edu

Research Interests: Leveraging advanced technologies to enhance nuclear security, focusing on the integration of AI, quantum computing, and neuromorphic computing. My research seeks to improve nuclear command, control, and communication systems while addressing the implications for international arms control agreements. I am particularly interested in optimizing human-machine interaction in high-stakes environments.

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Jeffrey Schulman

Informatics
CSRAI Student Affiliate

College: College of Information Sciences and Technology

Major/Program: Informatics

Email: jss6099@psu.edu

Research Interests: Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), human-computer interaction (HCI), and information security; synthesizing emerging insights and practical applications; how complex AI systems can be made more transparent and user-friendly, with a focus on security; cognitive security, active inference, dark patterns, computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), and open-source software

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Agnimitra Sengupta

Civil Engineering
CSRAI Student Affiliate

College: College of Engineering

Major/Program: Civil Engineering

Email: avs6897@psu.edu

Research Interests: My research focuses on development and application of data-driven and machine-learning algorithms to various domains of transportation engineering. The specific application domains include structural condition evaluation, damage identification and quantification using NDTs; Traffic flow predictions; Traffic safety analysis; Reliability analysis of highway designs.

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Saiber Shaikh

Counselor Education
CSRAI Student Affiliate

College: College of Education

Major/Program: Counselor Education

Email: sjs8036@psu.edu

Research Interests: GenAI in Higher Ed and Counselor Education

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Zimeng Shao

Applied Linguistics
CSRAI Student Affiliate

College: College of the Liberal Arts

Major/Program: Applied Linguistics

Email: zvs5327@psu.edu

Research Interests: corpus-based genre analysis and pedagogy, second language (L2) writing and assessment, and computer-assisted language learning. I am particularly interested in applying LLMs to empower genre analytical approaches to language use, and promoting socially responsible use of AI to enhance language teaching and learning.

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