Student Affiliates
Deja Workman
- Informatics
- CSRAI Student Affiliate
College: College of Information Sciences and Technology
Major/Program: Informatics
Email: dqw5409@psu.edu
Research Interests: Understanding antiblackness in the development of AI systems in software engineering.
Biying Wu
- Mass Communications
- CSRAI Student Affiliate
College: Bellisario College of Communications
Major/Program: Mass Communications
Email: bvw5507@psu.edu
Research Interests: Interaction among digital journalism, psychology of media technologies, and comparative politics. I’m particularly interested in the underlying mechanism (affective, social, and political) of people’s digital consumptions (mobile media, social media, AI) and how these media uses impact affective, social, and political environments.
Chuhao Wu
- Informatics
- CSRAI Student Affiliate
College: College of Information Sciences and Technology
Major/Program: Informatics
Email: cjw6297@psu.edu
Research Interests: The integration and implementation of innovative technologies within higher education environments, approached from a human-centered perspective. I explore how technologies, such as Generative AI, can be thoughtfully designed and governed to better support the diverse needs of students, faculty, and the broader university community.
Siyu Wu
- Information Sciences and Technology
- CSRAI Student Affiliate
College: College of Information Sciences and Technology
Major/Program: Information Sciences and Technology
Email: sfw5621@psu.edu
Research Interests: Cognition intelligent systems, human-computer interaction, computational modeling
He Zhang
- Informatics
- CSRAI Student Affiliate
College: College of Information Sciences and Technology
Major/Program: Informatics
Email: hpz5211@psu.edu
Research Interests: I am interested in affective computing, studying on human behavior, motivation, strategy, and cognitive patterns. I also have a strong interest in researching ethical and collaborative issues related to generative AI. Currently, my primary focus is on studying human behavior, emotions, human-centered design, and decision-making in virtual reality and smart home environments.
Wenbo Zhang
- Informatics
- CSRAI Student Affiliate
College: College of Information Sciences and Technology
Major/Program: Informatics
Email: wjz5120@psu.edu
Research Interests: I’m interested in topics related to natural language processing, AI for social impact, computational game theory, and speech processing. Research during my Ph.D. program focuses on using advanced natural language processing techniques to solve real-world problems which lead to profound social impact.