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Saeed Abdullah

  • Associate Professor
  • Faculty Affiliate, Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence
  • Digital Health
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Human-Centered AI for Health
  • Data Science
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Mahir Akgun

  • Associate Teaching Professor and Coordinator, B.S. in Artificial Intelligence Methods and Applications
  • Learning Analytics
  • Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL)
  • Epistemic Agency
  • Knowledge Creation/Building
  • Expert Heuristics
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Syed Billah

  • Assistant Professor
  • Faculty Affiliate, Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Intelligent Interaction System
  • Accessible Computing
  • Assistive Technology
  • Human Augmentation
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Cindy Brewer

  • Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
  • Professor of Geography
  • Cartographic Communication and Visualization
  • Map Design
  • Color Theory
  • Multi-scale Mapping
  • Atlas Production
  • Topographic Maps
  • Cartography
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Jhon Bueno Vesga

  • Associate Teaching Professor
  • Usability and User Experience
  • Virtual Reality Learning Environments
  • Computational Thinking
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Guoray Cai

  • Associate Professor and Interim Head of Department, Human-Centered Computing and Social Informatics
  • Director, Spatial Information and Intelligence Laboratory
  • Geographical Information Science
  • Visual Analytics
  • Online Democracy and Deliberation
  • Geocollaboration
  • Multimodal Dialogue Systems
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Curtis Cain

  • Associate Professor
  • Computing Education
  • Human-computer Interaction
  • Human-centered computing
  • Database Systems
  • Policy
  • Information Systems Theories
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Dana Calacci

  • Assistant Professor
  • Faculty Co-Hire, Institute for Computational and Data Sciences
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Human-computer Interaction
  • Computational Social Science
  • Data Science
  • Communities
  • Law
  • Policy
  • AI Ethics
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Betsy Campbell

  • Associate Teaching Professor
  • Faculty Affiliate, Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence
  • Ethnomethodology
  • Arts-Based Interventions
  • Intersections of Technologies and Arts
  • AI and Society
  • Socio-Materiality and Embodiment in Technologically Rich Contexts
  • Ethics of AI and Robotics
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Jinghui Chen

  • Assistant Professor
  • Faculty Affiliate, Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Trustworthy Machine Learning
  • Generative AI
  • Large Language Models
  • Artificial Intelligence
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Ying Chen

  • Assistant Professor
  • Augmented Reality
  • Virtual Reality
  • Machine Learning
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Minhao Cheng

  • Assistant Professor
  • Machine Learning
  • Trustworthy Machine Learning
  • Generative AI
  • AI Agents
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Megan Costello

  • Associate Teaching Professor
  • Intersection of Technology and Policy
  • Law
  • Technology for Teaching
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Carl Cotner

  • Associate Teaching Professor
  • Computer and Network Security
  • Computer Programming and Software Architecture
  • Data Analysis
  • Machine Learning
  • Mathematics
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Kelley Cotter

  • Assistant Professor
  • Faculty Affiliate, Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence
  • Critical Algorithm Studies
  • Critical Data Studies
  • Digital Literacy
  • Algorithmic Literacy
  • Platform Governance
  • Science and Technology Studies
  • Social Media
  • Digital Culture
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Jonathan Dodge

  • Assistant Professor
  • Explainable AI
  • Human-computer Interaction
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Patrick Dudas

  • Associate Teaching Professor
  • Visualization
  • Social Networks
  • Data Mining
  • Immersive Technologies
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Erica Fleming

  • Faculty Lead for Teaching and Learning
  • Lecturer
  • Universal Design for Learning
  • Inclusive Teaching
  • Belonging in the Classroom
  • Educational Technologies
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Mathias Fonkam

  • Associate Teaching Professor
  • Programming Paradigms
  • Abstract Math
  • Data Science
  • Functional Programming
  • System Thinking
  • Open-Source Software
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Fred Fonseca

  • Associate Professor
  • Data Science
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Philosophy of Technology
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Marc Friedenberg

  • Assistant Teaching Professor
  • Computational Thinking
  • Cybersecurity
  • Data Communications and Networking
  • Intersection of Technology and Policy
  • Law
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Dave Fusco

  • Associate Teaching Professor and Director of Master's Programs
  • Applied Artificial Intelligence Systems
  • Human-Centered and Responsible AI
  • Secure and Trustworthy AI
  • AI-Enabled Cybersecurity Systems
  • Secure AI Architecture and Automation
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Chris Gamrat

  • Associate Teaching Professor
  • Inclusive and Equitable Teaching
  • Learning Experience Design
  • Personalized Learning
  • Educational Innovation
  • Design for Well-being
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Nicklaus Giacobe

  • Associate Teaching Professor and Coordinator, B.S. in Cybersecurity Analytics and Operations
  • Point of Contact (POC) for the NSA Center for Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education at Penn State
  • Cybersecurity Education
  • Cybersecurity
  • Situation Awareness
  • Security Metrics
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Edward Glantz

  • Teaching Professor and Director of Master's Programs
  • Cybersecurity
  • Risk Analysis
  • Risk Identification
  • Small Businesses
  • Crisis Management
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Xinning Gui

  • Assistant Professor
  • Faculty Affiliate, Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence
  • Human-computer Interaction
  • Health Informatics
  • Computer-supported Cooperative Work
  • Social Media Research
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Michael Hills

  • Teaching Professor
  • Cybersecurity
  • Risk Analysis
  • Crisis Management
  • Project Management
  • Internet of Things
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Vasant Honavar

  • Professor
  • Director, Center for Artificial Intelligence Foundations and Scientific Applications
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Causal Inference
  • Data Sciences
  • Bioinformatics
  • Knowledge Representation and Inference
  • Deep Learning
  • Health Informatics
  • Materials Informatics
  • Algorithmic Fairness, Transparency, and Accountability
  • Semantic Web
  • Big Data Analytics
  • Cognitive Science
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Hadi Hosseini

  • Associate Professor and Coordinator, B.S. in Data Sciences
  • Associate Director, Center for Artificial Intelligence Foundations and Engineered Systems (CAFE)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Multiagent Systems
  • Algorithmic Fairness
  • Game Theory and Mechanism Design
  • Computational Social Choice
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Hong Hu

  • Assistant Professor
  • Software Security
  • System Security
  • Automatic Exploit Generation
  • Security Testing
  • Security Defense Mechanisms
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Sharon Huang

  • David Reese Professor of IST and Interim Head of Department, Informatics and Intelligent Systems
  • Associate Faculty, Institute for Computational and Data Sciences
  • Biomedical Image Data Analysis
  • Computer Vision
  • Machine Learning
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Graphics and Visualization
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Ting-Hao 'Kenneth' Huang

  • Associate Professor
  • Faculty Affiliate, Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Human-computer Interaction
  • Crowdsourcing and Human Computation
  • Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants
  • Artificial Intelligence
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Andy Hunsucker

  • Assistant Teaching Professor
  • User Experience Design
  • UX Industry
  • Design Practice
  • HCI
  • Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
  • Augmented Reality
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Jinyuan Jia

  • Assistant Professor
  • Trustworthy Machine Learning
  • Security and Privacy
  • Machine Learning
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Taegyu Kim

  • Assistant Professor
  • Software Security
  • Robotic Vehicle Security
  • Embedded Systems Security
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Johnson Kinyua

  • Associate Teaching Professor
  • Cybersecurity
  • Application of AI/ML in the Financial Domain
  • Application of AI/ML in Wildlife Conservation
  • Multi-Agent Systems
  • Building Secure Software Systems
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Yubo Kou

  • Haile Family Early Career Professor in IST
  • Faculty Affiliate, Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence
  • Human-computer Interaction
  • Computer-supported Cooperative Work
  • Social Computing
  • Video Games
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Gregory Kruczek

  • Assistant Teaching Professor
  • Director/Advisor, Red Cell Analytics Lab (RCAL)
  • Ethnic and religious minorities in civil war
  • Middle East politics
  • Decision Theory
  • Terrorism and Crime
  • Emerging technologies and war
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Priya Kumar

  • PNC Technologies Career Development Professor
  • Faculty Affiliate, Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence
  • Privacy and Agency
  • Digital Childhood/Parenting
  • Datafication/Data Power
  • Social Media and Platform Hegemony
  • Critical Computing/Critical Informatics
  • Post-Qualitative Research
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Aron Laszka

  • Assistant Professor
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Cyber-Physical Systems (Transportation, Energy)
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Optimization and Decision Making
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Dongwon Lee

  • Professor and Interim Head of Department, Privacy and Cybersecurity Informatics
  • Faculty Affiliate, Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence
  • Cybersecurity
  • Data Science and Machine Learning
  • Social Computing
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Roderick Lee

  • Associate Professor of Human-Centered Computing and Social Informatics
  • Associate Professor of Information Systems, Penn State Harrisburg
  • Computing Education
  • Human-computer Interaction
  • Human-centered Artificial Intelligence
  • Social Informatics
  • Organizational Change and Innovation
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Lu Lin

  • Assistant Professor
  • Faculty Affiliate, Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence
  • Applied Machine Learning on Graphs
  • Trustworthy Machine Learning
  • Data Mining and Data Science
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Peng Liu

  • Raymond G. Tronzo, MD Professor of Cybersecurity
  • Director, Center for Cyber-Security, Information Privacy, and Trust (LIONS Center)
  • Computer Security
  • Building Secure Software Systems
  • Secure Internet of Things
  • Applying Deep Learning to Systems Security
  • Cyber Situational Awareness
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Fenglong Ma

  • Associate Professor
  • Faculty Co-Hire, Institute for Computational and Data Sciences
  • Data Mining
  • Health Care Informatics
  • Machine Learning
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Multimodal Learning
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Carleen Maitland

  • Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Affairs
  • Co-Director, Institute for Information Policy
  • Humanitarian Informatics
  • Refugee Tech
  • Critical Data Studies
  • Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD)
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Jennifer McCauley

  • Assistant Teaching Professor
  • Social Informatics
  • Sociotechnical Systems
  • Enterprise Architecture
  • Human-AI Interaction
  • Adaptive Expertise
  • Technical Education
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Henry Moeller

  • Assistant Teaching Professor
  • IT Project Management
  • Data Center Operations
  • Cryptography
  • Data Classification
  • Digital Files
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Web Security
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Kathleen Moore

  • Associate Teaching Professor and Coordinator, B.S. in Security and Risk Analysis
  • Security and Risk Analysis
  • Cyber Security
  • Cyber Security Incident and Response Management
  • Dark Web
  • Applied Analytics
  • Data and AI Literacy
  • Data and AI Decision Making
  • Cyber Intelligence
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Rosalie Ocker

  • Teaching Professor and Coordinator, B.S. in Enterprise Technology Integration
  • Enterprise Architecture
  • Agility
  • Global Teams
  • Technology Mediated Communication
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Funminiyi Olajide

  • Associate Teaching Professor
  • Cybersecurity
  • GRC (Governance, Risk & Compliance) & Digital Forensics
  • AI-Driven Governance & Decision Support in Organizational Security
  • Cybercrime, Criminology & Incident Response
  • Enterprise Risk & Information Security Management
  • Applied Research on Legacy Systems and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Integration
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Kaamran Raahemifar

  • Teaching Professor
  • Data Science
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Transaction Security
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Sarah Rajtmajer

  • Associate Professor and Director of Doctoral Programs
  • Research Associate, Rock Ethics Institute
  • Machine Learning and AI
  • Privacy and Security
  • Science of Science
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Daniel Richert

  • Associate Teaching Professor and Coordinator, B.S. in Human-Centered Design and Development
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Teaching Methods to Improve Student Academic Success and Retention
  • Information Technology
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Frank Ritter

  • Professor
  • Cognitive Modelling and Learning
  • Cognitive Architecture
  • Human-computer Interaction
  • Behavioral Moderators
  • Computer-based Tutoring
  • Public Health and Disaster Medicine
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Matt Ruff

  • Lecturer
  • Offensive Cybersecurity
  • Radio Frequency and Wireless
  • Internet of Things
  • Critical Infrastructure
  • Cryptography
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Ehsan Sabaghian

  • Assistant Teaching Professor
  • Technology Integration
  • Evolution of Digital Infrastructure
  • Green IT/Energy Informatics
  • Socio-Technical Systems and Theory
  • Organizational Information Systems Theory
  • Sociological Institutionalism
  • Information Systems Analysis and Design
  • Enterprise Technology Integration
  • Information Technology Projects in Organizations
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Chris Sebora

  • Lecturer and Coordinator, B.S. in Information Sciences and Technology
  • Risk Analysis
  • Risk Management
  • Strategic Planning
  • Intelligence Analysis
  • Crime and Terrorism
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Tanusree Sharma

  • Assistant Professor
  • Usable Security and Privacy
  • AI Governance
  • Blockchain
  • Human-computer Interaction
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Justin Silverman

  • Assistant Professor
  • Assistant Professor of Statistics
  • Bayesian Statistics
  • Machine Learning
  • Uncertainty Quantification
  • Partially Identified Models
  • Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
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Dhananjay Singh

  • Teaching Professor
  • Human-computer Interaction
  • Applied AI and Data Sciences
  • Intelligent Vehicles
  • AI-powered IoT Technologies
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Anna Squicciarini

  • Frymoyer Chair in Information Sciences and Technology
  • Professor, Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology
  • Privacy
  • Access Control
  • Online Deviance
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Joseph Squillace

  • Associate Teaching Professor
  • Cybersecurity in Critical Infrastructure
  • Cyberbullying
  • Cybercrime
  • Voting Integrity
  • Privacy Governance
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Sarah Stager

  • Associate Teaching Professor
  • Trustworthy Indications of Social Interactions In-Person and Online
  • Human-computer Interaction
  • Behavioral Moderators
  • Computer-based Tutoring
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Kevin Sylvester

  • Assistant Teaching Professor
  • Math Education
  • Discrete Mathematics
  • Statistical Analysis for Information Sciences
  • Application Development
  • Technologies for Teaching
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Feng Tao

  • Assistant Professor
  • Soil Carbon
  • Rock Weathering
  • Computational Ecology
  • Carbon Dioxide Removal
  • Data Assimilation
  • AI for Science
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Andrea Tapia

  • Dean
  • Professor
  • Crisis Informatics
  • Social Data Analytics
  • Social Theories and Methods of Information
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Shane Tomblin

  • Associate Teaching Professor
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Knowledge Engineering
  • Organizational Learning
  • Cognitive cities
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Urja Vora

  • Associate Teaching Professor
  • Multidisciplinary Engineering
  • IoT to IoE
  • Edge Computing
  • System of Systems
  • Sustainability Design
  • Microservices Architecture
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Suhang Wang

  • Associate Professor
  • Affiliate Faculty, Institute for Computational and Data Sciences
  • Data Mining
  • Graph Mining
  • Machine Learning
  • Deep Learning
  • Social Media Mining
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James Wang

  • Distinguished Professor of Information Sciences and Technology
  • Faculty Affiliate, Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence
  • Biomedical Informatics
  • Affective Computing
  • Robotics and Computer Vision
  • Data Science
  • Visual Art
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Dan Welch

  • Assistant Teaching Professor
  • Learning Environments for Theorem Proving
  • Computational Thinking
  • Software Verification
  • Programming Languages
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Shomir Wilson

  • Associate Professor and Coordinator, B.S. in Information Technology Ethics and Compliance
  • Director, The Human Language Technologies Lab at Penn State
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Privacy
  • Computational Social Science
  • Fairness in Machine Learning
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Security
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Qingyun Wu

  • Assistant Professor
  • Associate Faculty, Institute for Computational and Data Sciences
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Automated Machine Learning
  • Online Optimization, Learning, and Decision-making
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Dinghao Wu

  • Dewey Walker Professor in IST
  • Faculty Affiliate, Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence
  • Cybersecurity
  • Machine Learning
  • Software Systems
  • Programming Languages
  • Software Engineering
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Yuxing Wu

  • Assistant Teaching Professor
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Health Informatics and Design for Wellbeing
  • Human-Computer Interaction Education and Pedagogy
  • User Experience Design
  • Learning, Education, and Families
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Aiping Xiong

  • Associate Professor
  • Faculty Affiliate, Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence
  • Human Factors
  • Cybersecurity and Privacy
  • Human Perception and Action
  • Decision Making
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Amulya Yadav

  • Associate Professor
  • Director, RAISE Lab @ Penn State
  • Responsible Artificial Intelligence
  • Social Network Analysis
  • Machine Learning
  • Computational Game Theory
  • Multi-agent Systems
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Yuchen Yang

  • Assistant Professor
  • Machine Learning
  • Trustworthy AI
  • Computer Security and Privacy
  • User-Centric Security
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Lynette Yarger

  • Professor
  • Associate Dean for Equity and Inclusion, Schreyer Honors College
  • Social Informatics
  • Future of Work
  • Critical Theory
  • Feminist Theory
  • Digital Inequality
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John Yen

  • Professor
  • Faculty Affiliate, Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cybersecurity
  • Machine Learning
  • Deep Representation Learning
  • Federated Analytics and Federated Learning
  • Human AI Trust and Collaboration
  • Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
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Dongyan Zhang

  • Lecturer
  • Cybersecurity
  • Software Security
  • Programming Language
  • Risk Analysis
  • Cyber Forensics
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Xiaolong "Luke" Zhang

  • Associate Professor
  • Information Visualization/Visual Analytics
  • Gesture-based User Interaction
  • Social Network Analysis
  • Collaboration Systems
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Xiang Zhang

  • Associate Professor
  • Faculty Co-Hire, Institute for Computational and Data Sciences
  • Data Mining
  • Machine Learning
  • Big Data Analytics
  • Databases
  • Biomedical Informatics