Directory
Siu Ling Leung
- Associate Teaching Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Engineering
Email: szl12@psu.edu
Research Interests: Undergraduate engineering education, particularly on creating innovative learning tools to enhance student engagement, improve cognitive skills, and equip students to address real-world challenges.
Qunhua Li
- Professor of Statistics
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Eberly College of Science
Email: qunhua.li@psu.edu
Research Interests: Statistical modeling for large and complex data, machine learning, AI models, data reproducibility, bioinformatics
Yo-Jen Liao
- Postdoctoral Scholar
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Nese College of Nursing
Email: yzl541@psu.edu
Research Interests: Nursing, pain management, people with dementia, nursing competency, virtual simulation
Daryl Lim
- ssociate Dean for Research & Strategic Partnerships
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Penn State Dickinson Law
Email: daryllim@psu.edu
Research Interests: I am interested in national and global trends in IP and competition policy and how they influence and are influenced by law, technology, economics, and politics. I help policymakers, attorneys, corporate counsel, scholars, and the public to make sense of the world around them.
Désirée Lim
- Associate Professor of Philosophy
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of the Liberal Arts
Email: dyl10@psu.edu
Research Interests: I am interested in the moral status of artificial intelligence, such as whether AI agents could have rights or even be accorded dignity. Relatedly, I am particularly interested in the phenomenon of AI-human relationships, such as between people and companion bots.
Lu Lin
- Assistant Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Information Sciences and Technology
Email: lxl5598@psu.edu
Research Interests: My research interest is trustworthy machine learning on graph-structured data, concerning multiple aspects of trustworthiness, including fairness, robustness, interpretability and privacy.
Shurong Lin
- Postdoctoral Researcher
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Eberly College of Science
Email: sfl5882@psu.edu
Research Interests: My research lies at the intersection of data privacy, modern statistics, and machine learning, with a focus on differential privacy and its applications in responsible data science. I develop privacy-preserving algorithms and synthetic data generation methods to enable trustworthy, reproducible analysis of sensitive datasets. My work is grounded in statistical theory and motivated by real-world deployments, such as the U.S. Census.
Siyu Liu
- Associate Professor of Criminal Justice
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Penn State Harrisburg
Email: sul445@psu.edu
Research Interests: Police legitimacy, police and constitutional protections, the death penalty, and criminal desistance
Fenglong Ma
- Associate Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Information Sciences and Technology
Email: ffm5105@psu.edu
Research Interests: My research interest is on artificial intelligence for healthcare, especially for disease risk prediction by modeling longitudinal electronic health data, medical natural language processing, robust and federated machine learning.
Andrea Matwyshyn
- Professor of Law and Engineering Policy
- CSRAI Steering Committee
Department/Unit: Penn State Law
Email: andreamm@psu.edu
Research Interests: Andrea Matwyshyn is founding director of the Penn State PILOT Lab (Policy Innovation Lab of Tomorrow), an interdisciplinary technology policy lab, and a professor with Penn State Law and the College of Engineering. She is an academic and author whose work focuses on technology and information policy and law, particularly information security/”cybersecurity,” artificial intelligence, consumer privacy, intellectual property, health technology, and technology workforce pipeline policy. Previously, she was professor of law/professor of computer science (by courtesy) at Northeastern University, where she served as co-director of the Center for Law, Innovation, and Creativity (CLIC). She is a faculty affiliate of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School and as a senior fellow of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcraft Center on International Security.
Heather McCune Bruhn
- Associate Teaching Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Arts and Architecture
Email: hcm1@psu.edu
Research Interests: I specialize in medieval goldsmithwork, more broadly on medieval art, and the materials and techniques of art history. I also work on pedagogical innovations and the ethical use of AI in student work.