Directory
Shraddha Pathak
- CSRAI Student Affiliate
Department/Unit:
Email: ssp5547@psu.edu
Research Interests: Economics and computation, computational social choice
Vincent Perez
- Business Lecturer
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Penn State Brandywine
Email: vkp5236@psu.edu
Research Interests: Competitive and disruptive strategies, including the effective utilization of AI, and have a deep commitment to social entrepreneurship and supporting non-profit organizations.
Patrick Plaisance
- Don W. Davis Professor in Ethics
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Bellisario College of Communications
Email: plp22@psu.edu
Research Interests: Current research focuses on moral psychology in media practice & professional culture; moral ecology of digital media organizations; ethical implications of media technologies embedded in digital media cultures (algorithmic uses, social media platform affordances, etc.), to culminate in planned book project on philosophy of technology critiques of digital media. Theorizing also focuses on critiquing media technology implications with a virtue ethics framework with the aim of identifying, as Shannon Vallor says, a 'technological future worth wanting.'
Robin Qiu
- Professor of Information Science
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Information Science/Engineering Division at Penn State Great Valley
Email: robinqiu@psu.edu
Research Interests: Big Data, Data/Business Analytics, Smart Service Systems, Service Science, Social Computing, Service Operations and Management, Information Systems, and Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management
Ihab Ragai
- Associate Professor of Engineering
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Manufacturing Processes and Systems, Penn State Behrend
Email: ifr1@psu.edu
Research Interests: Advanced Manufacturing Processes, Smart Manufacturing Systems
Andrea Ragonese
- Associate Teaching Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Engineering
Email: amj108@psu.edu
Research Interests: My research investigates the socially responsible application of AI within online STEM and engineering education, focusing on its integration with equity, inclusion, and decolonizing approaches. I examine ethical methods for building, deploying, and using AI tools to support learning and foster inclusive communities of practice for online students."
Sarah Rajtmajer
- Assistant Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of IST & Rock Ethics Institute
Email: smr48@psu.edu
Research Interests: Machine learning and AI, trust in information, privacy, metascience
Arvind Rangaswamy
- University Distinguished Professor of Marketing
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Smeal College of Business
Email: axr15@psu.edu
Research Interests: Marketing Analytics and Digital Marketing, with a current focus on empirical analysis involving social networks, text and sentiment analysis, and influencer marketing.
Wesley Reinhart
- Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
- CSRAI Steering Committee
Department/Unit: College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
Email: reinhart@psu.edu
Research Interests: Wesley Reinhart received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. He attended Princeton University on a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, where he worked on strategies for predicting, understanding, and controlling colloidal crystallization using large-scale computer simulations and machine learning methods. After completing his Ph.D. in Chemical and Biological Engineering, he worked as a Research Scientist at Siemens Corporate Technology. His research initiatives there focused on computational geometry, knowledge representation, and exploiting the structure-function relationship in manufacturing contexts. He joined Penn State’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering in 2020 and holds an appointment as an Institute for Computational and Data Sciences Co-hire.