Directory
Hajime Shimao
- Assistant Professor of Data Analytics
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Penn State Great Valley
Email: hjs5825@psu.edu
Research Interests: Economics of AI; Theoretical limit of AI preditability; Fairness/Interpretability of AI
Heather Shoenberger
- Associate Professor
- 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
Dhananjay Singh
- Teaching Professor, Informatics and Intelligent Systems
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Information Sciences and Technology
Email: DVS6298@PSU.EDU
Research Interests: My research and teaching interests in developing trustworthy, human-centered, and socially impactful AI systems.Keywords: AI in Aging Populations, GenAI model for Education, Human-Centered AI
Madhusudan Singh
- Associate Teaching Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Engineering
Email: mps6990@psu.edu
Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, blockchain technology, data science, and privacy-preserving computing
Puneet Singla
- Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Engineering
Email: psingla@psu.edu
Research Interests: Data driven modeling, uncertainty quantification, control of aerospace vehicles
Martin Skladany
- Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Penn State Dickinson Law
Email: mus67@psu.edu
Research Interests: AI and culture, AI and politics, AI and ethics
Aleksandra (Seša) Slavković
- Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Data Privacy and Confidentiality; Professor of Statistics and Public Health; Associate Dean for Research
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Eberly College of Science
Email: abs12@psu.edu
Research Interests: Her research interests include methodological developments in the area of data privacy and confidentiality in the context of small and large scale surveys, health, genomic, and network data. Her focus is on the interplay of tools from statistics and computer science that leads to formal privacy protection -such as differential privacy- and broad data access, but also offers guarantees of accurate statistical inference needed to support reliable science and policy. Other past and current research interests include evaluation methods for human performance in virtual environments, statistical data mining, application of statistics to information sciences and social sciences, algebraic statistics, and causal inference.
Gloria Soto
- Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Health and Human Development
Email: gsoto@psu.edu
Research Interests: I am interested in the acquisition and use of language via augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). AAC includes tools, methods, and strategies to support communication for individuals who have little or no functional speech due to disability, including speech generating devices (SGD). AI will have an enormous impact in the design of communication technologies and it is critical that their use reflects operating principles of language development as well as is made widely accessible to users from different linguistic communities.
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.
Yuehong Cassandra Tai
- Research Assistant Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of the Liberal Arts
Email: yjt5154@psu.edu
Research Interests: My research uses human–AI pipelines to study political communication, democratic accountability, and governance. I also develop workflows that make AI-assisted political analysis more transparent, interpretable, and reproducible.
Andrea Tapia
- Dean
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of 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.