Directory
Cindy Lin
- Assistant Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of Information Sciences and Technology
Email: cfl5598@psu.edu
Research Interests: My research centers on the data practices, exchanges, and expertise of climate change and their relationship to race and environmental governance in Indonesia and United States. I have spent more than six years studying the use of data science techniques and cloud computing architectures for environmental and fire monitoring and mapping in Southeast Asia, and in particular Indonesia. This fieldwork experience has allowed me to demonstrate how data science technologies create new forms of racial orders in rural Indonesia and political responsibilities for engineers and environmental scientists.
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.
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
Siyuan Liu
- Assistant Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Supply Chain and Information Systems/ Smeal College of Business
Email: siyuan@psu.edu
Research Interests: Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Financial Technology
Fenglong Ma
- Assistant Professor
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: 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
- Associate Dean for Innovation and Technology
- 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: Art History
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.
Sascha Meinrath
- Palmer Chair in Telecommunications
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: Telecom & Media Industries, Bellisario College of Communications
Email: sascha@psu.edu
Research Interests: Sascha Meinrath is the Palmer Chair in Telecommunications at Penn State University and a renowned technology policy expert. He is internationally recognized for his work over the past two decades as a community internet pioneer, social entrepreneur, and angel investor. Sascha is widely published in both academic and media outlets, including Critical Studies in Media Communications, International Journal of Communications, Journal of Communications Law and Policy, Journal of Internet Law, Journal for Community Informatics, IEEE Internet Computing Magazine, IEEE Spectrum, Foreign Policy, The Hill, Time Magazine, Politico, Slate, The Guardian, and many others. He was elected as an Ashoka Fellow for Social Entrepreneurship in 2012, and has been named to the “TIME Tech 40” as one of the most influential figures in technology, to the “Top 100” in Newsweek's Digital Power Index, and is a recipient of the Public Knowledge IP3 Award for excellence in public interest advocacy. Prior to joining Penn State, Sascha was Vice-President of the New America think tank, where he founded the Open Technology Institute in 2008 and built it into one of the largest public interest tech policy organizations in Washington, DC.
Michele Mekel
- Interim Director, Bioethics Program
- CSRAI Affiliate
Department/Unit: College of the Liberal Arts
Email: mmekel@psu.edu
Research Interests: Biomedical Bioethics, Health Humanities, Bioethics and Emerging Technologies, Etc.