Directory

Janet van Hell

Co-Director of the Center for Language Science and Professor of Psychology and Linguistics
CSRAI Affiliate

Department/Unit: College of the Liberal Arts

Research Interests: I study the neural and cognitive mechanisms of child and adult bilinguals' language processing, code-switching, accented-speech processing, and creative language use. I serve as PI on the NSF NRT program "Linguistic diversity across the lifespan: Transforming training to advance human-technology interaction", and as Director of the Center for Language Science.

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Mihail Velikov

Assistant Professor of Finance
CSRAI Affiliate

Department/Unit: Smeal College of Business

Email: velikov@psu.edu

Research Interests: I am interested in working on a paper that would use LLMs coupled with my own code base to automate the production of papers in academic finance.

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Alan Wagner

Assistant Professor of Law, Policy, and Engineering and Anthropology
CSRAI Affiliate

Department/Unit: College of Engineering

Email: alan.r.wagner@psu.edu

Research Interests: My interest is in developing robots that are capable of interacting with a broad range of humans within a variety of different social situations. I try to ideas from cognitive science to develop methods for robot reasoning. Application areas in emergency evacuation, construction robotics, and game playing.

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Jennifer Wagner

Assistant Professor of Law, Policy, and Engineering and Anthropology
CSRAI Affiliate

Department/Unit: School of Engineering Design and Innovation

Email: jkw131@psu.edu

Research Interests: ELSI (ethical, legal, and social implications) of human genetic/omic and digital health technologies

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James Wang

Distinguished Professor
CSRAI Affiliate

Department/Unit: College of Information Sciences and Technology

Email: jwang@ist.psu.edu

Research Interests: Affective ComputingBiomedical Imaging InformaticsComputer-based Analysis of Visual ArtMachine LearningComputer Vision

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Qian Wang

Professor
CSRAI Affiliate

Department/Unit: College of Engineering

Email: quw6@psu.edu

Research Interests: machine learning, advanced manufacturing, type 1 diabetes, modeling of dynamic systems, control systems

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Suhang Wang

Associate Professor
CSRAI Affiliate

Department/Unit: College of Information Sciences and Technology

Email: szw494@psu.edu

Research Interests: I mainly work on interpretable, robust and fair machine learning and deep learning models with application to social media mining.

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Krista Wilkinson

Distinguished Professor in Communication Sciences and Disorders
CSRAI Affiliate

Department/Unit: College of Health and Human Development

Email: kmw22@psu.edu

Research Interests: Dr. Wilkinson's scholarship seeks to improve the design of technologies used by individuals with developmental disabilities to support their communication, speech, and language.

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Shomir Wilson

Associate Professor
CSRAI Steering Committee

Department/Unit: College of Information Sciences and Technology

Email: suw724@psu.edu

Research Interests: Shomir Wilson's research interests span natural language processing, artificial intelligence, digital privacy, and computational social science. He is particularly interested in breaking down technology's "walls of text", situations where a human user or decisionmaker is expected to consume a large quantity of text to take action while lacking time or expertise to properly understand it. Prior to joining Penn State he held postdoctoral positions in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science and the University of Edinburgh's School of Informatics. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, and his B.S. in Computer Science, B.S. in Mathematics, and B.A. in Philosophy from Virginia Tech.

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