Directory
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
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.
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.
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
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.
Dinghao Wu
- Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Information Sciences and Technology
Email: duw12@psu.edu
Research Interests: Cybersecurity, machine learning, software engineering.
Qingyun Wu
- Assistant Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Information Sciences and Technology
Email: qxw5138@psu.edu
Research Interests: Large Language Model Agent Systems, Multi-Agent AI Systems, Reinforcement Learning
Aiping Xiong
- Assistant Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Information Sciences and Technology
Email: axx29@psu.edu
Research Interests: human factors of security and privacy; decision making; human perception and action
Huijuan Xu
- Assistant Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Computer Science and Engineering Department / College of Engineering
Email: hkx5063@psu.edu
Research Interests: Deep learning, computer vision and natural language processing
Amulya Yadav
- PNC Career Development Assistant Professor
- CSRAI Associate Director (Programs)
Department/Unit: College of Information Sciences and Technology
Email: auy212@psu.edu
Research Interests: Amulya Yadav is an Assistant Professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State University. He also has an affiliate faculty appointment with the USC Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society. His research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Multi-Agent Systems, Computational Game-Theory and Applied Machine Learning. His work in the field of Artificial Intelligence for Social Good focuses on developing theoretically grounded approaches to real-world problems that can have an impact in the field. His algorithms have been deployed in the real-world, particularly in the field of public health and wildlife protection. Amulya is a recipient of the AAMAS 2016 Best Student Paper Award, the AAAI 2017 Best Video and Best Student Video Award, the IDEAS 2016 Most Visionary Paper Award, and the AAMAS 2017 Best Paper Award nomination. His work has also been highlighted by Mashable.com as one of 26 incredible innovations that improved the world in 2015. Amulya holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, and a B. Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Patna.
Jing Yang
- Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Engineering
Email: yangjing@psu.edu
Research Interests: Reinforcement Learning; Federated learning and distributed/decentralized learning; Privacy-preserving machine learning.