Student Affiliates
Mengqi Liao
- Mass Communication
- CSRAI Student Affiliate
College: Bellisario College of Communications
Major/Program: Mass Communication
Email: mul914@psu.edu
Research Interests: I am interested in studying the process and psychological effects of human interactions with communication technology, including mobile devices, social media and the emerging artificial intelligence.
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.
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.
Sanjana Mendu
- Informatics
- CSRAI Student Affiliate
College: College of Information Sciences and Technology
Major/Program: Informatics
Email: spm6450@psu.edu
Research Interests: I am interested in designing, developing, and deploying novel sensing and intervention systems focusing on health and wellbeing. My dissertation work focuses on how context-sensitive conversational agents can support vulnerable populations.
Hannah Merseal
- Psychology
- CSRAI Student Affiliate
College: College of the Liberal Arts
Major/Program: Psychology
Email: hmerseal@psu.edu
Research Interests: I am a PhD candidate in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Creativity Lab at Pennsylvania State University. My research interests include the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying music improvisation, building fairness and equity in neurocognitive research using open and reproducible methods, and using large-scale creativity studies to inform policy decisions in education and the workplace.
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
Pranav Narayanan Venkit
- Information Sciences and Technology
- CSRAI Student Affiliate
College: College of Information Sciences and Technology
Major/Program: Information Sciences and Technology
Email: pnv5011@psu.edu
Research Interests: My research focuses on the effect of sociodemographic bases enabled by Natural Language Models, especially on the minority population. I intend to bring awareness of the negligence shown by the AI and NLP communities on the social effects of their models. I am currently working on parameterizing and solving disability and nationality bias issues in sentiment and language generation models. Keywords: Ethics and NLP, Social NLP, Social Informatics, AI for Good
Seda Oturak
- Materials Science and Engineering
- CSRAI Student Affiliate
College: College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
Major/Program: Materials Science and Engineering
Email: sedaoturak@psu.edu
Research Interests: I’m specializing in data-driven inverse materials design by generative deep learning and finite element techniques. My research focuses on the implementation of these techniques to accurately predict necessary structure and process parameters for a given material property, instead of following traditional design method which uses trial-and-error strategy.
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
Mingean Park
- Public Administration
- CSRAI Student Affiliate
College: School of Public Affairs
Major/Program: Public Administration
Email: mup377@psu.edu
Research Interests:
Khushi Patel
- Management Information Systems
- CSRAI Student Affiliate
College: Smeal College of Business
Major/Program: Management Information Systems
Email: kmp6402@psu.edu
Research Interests: Data visualization , human- machine interface
Kamala Payyapilly Thiruvenkatanathan
- Informatics
- CSRAI Student Affiliate
College: College of Information Sciences and Technology
Major/Program: Informatics
Email: kkp5523@psu.edu
Research Interests: AI for women's health; Human Centered Explainable AI; Human AI Interaction
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
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.