Directory
Janet van Hell
- Professor of Psychology and Linguistics
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Psychology; Center for Language Science
Email: jgv3@psu.edu
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.
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.
Alan Wagner
- Assistant Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Department of Aerospace Engineering/Rock Ethics Institute
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.
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
James Wang
- Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Information Sciences and Technology
Email: jwang@ist.psu.edu
Research Interests: Affective Computing Biomedical Imaging Informatics Computer-based Analysis of Visual Art Machine Learning Computer Vision
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
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.
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.