Student Affiliates
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
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
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
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.
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
Delaram Rezaeikhonakdar
- Law
- CSRAI Student Affiliate
College: Dickinson Law
Major/Program: Law
Email: dfr5433@psu.edu
Research Interests: In light of the recent holding of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Schrems II and the invalidation of the Privacy Shield Framework, I am currently co-authoring a paper on the challenges of transferring personal data, including health data, from the EU to the U.S. In this paper, she analyzes the scope of the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR) and the available legal mechanisms under this Regulation for the international transfer of personal data, including data concerning health. In this paper, she intends to make suggestions on how to address the legal obstacles to cross-border transfer of health data from the EU to the U.S. in a new Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework. Furthermore, the rapid development of consumer genomic app platforms raises privacy challenges, considering that these platforms collect large amounts of sensitive data from consumers. I am currently co-authoring a paper exploring the privacy aspects of these platforms. In particular, I examine privacy laws in the U.S. and Europe, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA), and the EU GDPR. Keywords: International Transfer of Personal Data, Direct-to-Consumers AI/ML Mobile Health Applications, Privacy and Liability of AI-driven Health Tools
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.
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
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
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.