Directory

James Wang

Professor
CSRAI Affiliate

Department/Unit: College of Information Sciences and Technology

Research Interests: Affective Computing Biomedical Imaging Informatics Computer-based Analysis of Visual Art Machine Learning Computer Vision

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Qian Wang

Professor of Mechanical Engineering
CSRAI Affiliate

Department/Unit: Mechanical Engineering/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

Assistant Professor
CSRAI Affiliate

Department/Unit: 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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Yael Warshel

Assistant Professor and Research Associate
CSRAI Affiliate

Department/Unit: Telecommunications and Media industries, Bellisario College and Rock Ethics Institute, CLA

Email: ywarshel@psu.edu

Research Interests: I work at the intersection between international media, child, and conflict analysis, practice and policy specializing in the concept of “peace communication” I pioneered. My international and global field-based research explores critical and empirical questions concerning the efficacy of peace communication interventions in managing aspects of armed political conflicts; uses of media technologies to aid or empower the demographic majority of conflict zones: children and youth; the human and communication rights of stateless and forcibly-migrated and –sedentarized conflict zones implicated populations, and the comparative determinants of international coverage of conflicts relative to the numbers and magnitudes of conflicts. Keywords: young people, media, conflict zones, conflict management, international, and global

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Krista Wilkinson

Distinguished Professor
CSRAI Affiliate

Department/Unit: Communication Sciences and Disorders

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

Assistant 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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Alex Winters

Systems Design Specialist
CSRAI Affiliate

Department/Unit: Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center

Email: ajw5296@psu.edu

Research Interests: child welfare, policy cost-benefit analysis, and entrepreneurial communities

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Christopher Witko

Professor of Public Policy and Political Science
CSRAI Affiliate

Department/Unit: College of the Liberal Arts

Email: cxw877@psu.edu

Research Interests: I am broadly interested in how public policy both shapes and responds to economic change such as growing inequality, financialization and technological innovation. I used experimental and traditional observational approaches as well as big data in my research.

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