Student Affiliates

Debra Salorino

Information Systems Design
CSRAI Student Affiliate

College: College of Information Sciences and Technology

Major/Program: Information Systems Design

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

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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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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.

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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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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

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Yuan Sun

Mass Communications
CSRAI Student Affiliate

College: Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications

Major/Program: Mass Communications

Email: yws5055@psu.edu

Research Interests: AI transparency; User trust; Digital health

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Trivi Sunil

Computer Science
CSRAI Student Affiliate

College: College of Engineering

Major/Program: Computer Science

Email: tvs5971@psu.edu

Research Interests: Applied Machine Learning for Animal Sciences; GenAI and AI Agent Tools Development

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Apoorv Thite

Data Sciences (Applied Data Sciences)
CSRAI Student Affiliate

College: College of Information Sciences and Technology

Major/Program: Data Sciences (Applied Data Sciences)

Email: aat5564@psu.edu

Research Interests: Exploring and developing ethical frameworks for AI systems, impact of AI on society, ensuring fairness, transparency, and accountability in AI algorithms, and promoting responsible deployment to address real-world challenges while minimizing potential risks and biases

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Matt Viana

Informatics
CSRAI Student Affiliate

College: College of Information Sciences and Technology

Major/Program: Informatics

Email: Mmv5513@psu.edu

Research Interests: My research operates at the intersection of human-computer interaction and AI interpretability, focusing on the internal decision-making processes of Large Language Models (LLMs). I investigate how user interactions with these complex 'black box' systems can change and expose unintended model behaviors, such as my previous collaboration on uncovering sycophancy and perspective mimesis. The goal is to move beyond simply observing these behaviors by building user-facing tools to probe, understand, and ultimately steer the model's internal logic, enhancing its transparency and reliability to create safer, more aligned human-AI collaborations.

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Ruyuan Wan

Informatics
CSRAI Student Affiliate

College: College of Information Sciences and Technology

Major/Program: Informatics

Email: rjw6289@psu.edu

Research Interests: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Social Computing, focusing on communication dynamics in human-human and human-AI interactions, such as annotation disagreement in subjective data, logic fallacy detection in misinformation narratives, and user behavior analysis in social media.

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