Student Affiliates
Yansheng Liu
- Mass Communications
- CSRAI Student Affiliate
College: Bellisario College of Communications
Major/Program: Mass Communications
Email: yvl6116@psu.edu
Research Interests: Media effects, media psychology, psychology of communication technology
Simone Luchini
- Psychology
- CSRAI Student Affiliate
College: College of the Liberal Arts
Major/Program: Psychology
Email: skl5875@psu.edu
Research Interests: My research broadly focuses on the study of creativity, a complex human function which is yet to be fully understood. I employ techniques from several domains to achieve this goal, including psychometrics, natural language processing, linguistics, and cognitive neuroscience, so to advance creativity research through an interdisciplinary approach.
Aditya Majumdar
- Informatics
- CSRAI Student Affiliate
College: College of Information Sciences and Technology
Major/Program: Informatics
Email: apm6483@psu.edu
Research Interests: AI for Social Good, AI for healthcare, Code-mixing capabilities of LLMs
Mihir Mehta
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
- CSRAI Student Affiliate
College: College of Engineering
Major/Program: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Email: mihir.mehta@psu.edu
Research Interests: My research work is in the domains of inclusive pedagogy and trustworthy artificial intelligence. I am working on contextual inclusive pedagogy development based on my implemented inclusive teaching practices. Additionally, I am developing trustworthy AI applications for the public health context.
Kevin Mekulu
- Industrial Engineering
- CSRAI Student Affiliate
College: College of Engineering
Major/Program: Industrial Engineering
Email: kxm5924@psu.edu
Research Interests: Health informatics, Generative AI in healthcare, early-stage dementia detection, AI-powered behavioral analysis
Bonam Mingole
- Informatics
- CSRAI Student Affiliate
College: College of Information Sciences and Technology
Major/Program: Informatics
Email: bjm6940@psu.edu
Research Interests: Responsible AI, AI for social good
Sam Moradzadeh
- Informatics
- CSRAI Student Affiliate
College: College of Information Sciences and Technology
Major/Program: Informatics
Email: szm6500@psu.edu
Research Interests: Human Infrastructure; Cross-Platform Infrastructure; Deceptive Patterns; Fake Games; Human-Computer Interaction
Soumita Mukherjee
- Informatics
- CSRAI Student Affiliate
College: College of Information Sciences and Technology
Major/Program: Informatics
Email: szm6423@psu.edu
Research Interests: Legal, ethical, and privacy implications of autonomous vehicles with a focus on understanding the need for attentive human drivers in self-driving cars; ethics of automated decision-making and human-AI interaction
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
Melina Porro
- Anthropology
- CSRAI Student Affiliate
College: College of the Liberal Arts
Major/Program: Anthropology
Email: imp6@psu.edu
Research Interests: Evolutionary basis of gender and racial inequality through the lens of life history theory, signaling theory, and population genetics, critically re-engaging with elements from evolutionary psychology and behavioral endocrinology.
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
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
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
Debra Salorino
- Information Systems Design
- CSRAI Student Affiliate
College: College of Information Sciences and Technology
Major/Program: Information Systems Design
Email: dls6828@psu.edu
Research Interests: AI safety; AI governance; model auditing and monitoring; drift and bias detection; AI system architecture; safe integration of AI components; non-determinism and reproducibility in AI; accountability and contestability; privacy-preserving AI deployment; cross-domain best practices for responsible AI
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.