Directory
Priya Sharma
- Associate Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Education
Email: psharma@psu.edu
Research Interests: Ethical integration of AI and technology for teaching and learning, especially how to engage with AI as a collaborator in the process of pedagogical design, teaching, learning, and reflection/evaluation
Fuyuan Shen
- Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications
Email: fus1@psu.edu
Research Interests: Digital advertising and behavioral targeting, AI and algorithms in advertising, AI and privacy issues
Heather Shoenberger
- Associate Professor of Advertising
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Bellisario College of Communications
Email: hus503@psu.edu
Research Interests: How consumers navigate the media landscape of today's world, particularly in understanding individual and societal impacts of generative AI technologies.
Paul Shrivastava
- Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Smeal College of Business
Email: pxs993@psu.edu
Research Interests: AI for sustainable development, climate change, and AI ethics and policy
Puneet Singla
- Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Aerospace Engineering
Email: psingla@psu.edu
Research Interests: Data driven modeling, uncertainty quantification, control of aerospace vehicles
Martin Skladany
- Professor of Law
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Penn State Dickinson Law
Email: mus67@psu.edu
Research Interests: AI and culture, AI and politics, AI and ethics
Dawn Sowers
- AAC Research and Clinical Outreach Coordinator
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Email: djs6974@psu.edu
Research Interests: communication disorders, multiple disabilities, augmentative communication, visual support design
S. Shyam Sundar
- James P. Jimirro Professor of Media Effects
- CSRAI Director
Department/Unit: Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications
Email: sss12@psu.edu
Research Interests: S. Shyam Sundar is James P. Jimirro Professor of Media Effects and founder of the Media Effects Research Laboratory in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications. His research investigates social and psychological effects of interactive media, including mobile phones, social media, chatbots, robots, smart speakers and algorithms. His experiments investigate the role played by technological affordances in shaping user experience of mediated communications in a variety of interfaces. Current research pertains to fake news, chatbots and smart speakers, AI algorithms, online privacy, social media uses and effects, persuasive aspects of human-computer interaction (HCI), and the strategic use of communication technologies for motivating healthy and prosocial human behaviors.
Andrea Tapia
- Associate Dean for Research
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Information Sciences and Technology
Email: axh50@psu.edu
Research Interests: Dr. Tapia is a scholar of Crisis Informatics, the study of information discovery, needs, use and sharing in disaster or crisis settings. Dr. Tapia seeks to develop information and communication technology solutions that promote better decision-making across all responders. Dr. Tapia’s work focuses on making data generated by individuals or social networks via mobile information technologies useful to decision-makers within large institutions. Dr. Tapia’s work contributes to the solution of one of the stickiest problems currently facing emergency response organizations—the organizational inability to take advantage of an abundance of citizen-produced social media data.