Student Affiliates
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
Sahil Pardasani
- Computer Science
- CSRAI Student Affiliate
College: College of Engineering
Major/Program: Computer Science
Email: sqp6023@psu.edu
Research Interests: Socially Responsible Consulting, ethical use of information especially with health data, protecting data and passwords from breaches, using AI to monitor and find trends in health data of humans and animals
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
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
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.
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
Xinhe Shao
- Public Administration
- CSRAI Student Affiliate
College: School of Public Affairs
Major/Program: Public Administration
Email: xshao@psu.edu
Research Interests: My research interest focus on AI governance, digital public administration, and socially responsible technology adoption. I am particularly interested in how governments design and implement AI policies to balance innovation with transparency, accountability, and social equity while also minimizing risks and unintended consequences.
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.
Shahriar Shayesteh
- Informatics
- CSRAI Student Affiliate
College: College of Information Sciences and Technology
Major/Program: Informatics
Email: sxs7285@psu.edu
Research Interests: RAI, HCI, NLP, Trustworthy NLP, Fairness in NLP models