Directory
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.
John Yen
- Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Information Sciences and Technology
Email: juy1@psu.edu
Research Interests: I am interested in using AI to enhance cyber security in a socially responsible way. I am also interested in understanding issues related to human trust on AI and in helping people to better calibrate and use AI (e.g., through explainable AI, reproducible AI, etc).
Wenpeng Yin
- Assistant Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Email: wenpeng@psu.edu
Research Interests: (i) AI-Powered Autonomous Research: Creating AI systems to automate and inspire research in various disciplines.(ii) Human-Centered AI: Enhancing trustworthiness through interpretability, robustness, and addressing biases.(iii) Generalizable Machine Learning: Developing versatile strategies applicable to a wide range of learning problems.
Yidan Yin
- Assistant Professor, Management
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Smeal College of Business
Email: daniyin@psu.edu
Research Interests: Empathy, communication, disclosure of AI use
Rui Zhang
- Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Engineering
Email: rmz5227@psu.edu
Research Interests: Trustworthy Human-Centered AI, LLM Agents, and AI for Science
Yiqi Zhang
- Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Engineering
Email: yuz450@psu.edu
Research Interests: My research seeks to understand human-automation interaction challenges with focuses including automated and connected vehicles, trust in automation, human performance modeling, situation awareness, individual differences, and human-machine interfaces.
Hui Zhao
- Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems
Email: huz10@psu.edu
Research Interests: Professor Zhao’s research applies analytics to the healthcare systems with particular interests in pharmaceutical supply chains, public policy, and innovative design of healthcare systems (such as telehealth, online platforms, and using new technology such as machine learning to address healthcare problems). Key words: Healthcare/pharmaceutical supply chains, innovation in healthcare systems, and health public policy.
Bu Zhong
- Associate Professor of Journalism and Communications
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Bellisario College of Communications
Email: bxz11@psu.edu
Research Interests: My research has applied decision-making theories to the analysis of information processing and its effects on behavior, cognition, mental health, and social well-being. I explore human-technology interactions as a complex adaptive system, in which the complexity of social systems driven by digital transformation has been particularly scrutinized.