Data Sciences and Artificial Intelligence

Our research in artificial intelligence and big data explores how we can understand intelligence by constructing computational models of intelligent behavior and how we can apply the insights gleaned from the vast amount of information available in our world. Specifically, we study and develop algorithmic theories to model aspects of behavior through machine learning, predictive modeling, data mining, and causal discovery. We explore its applications in health and bioinformatics, social and organizational informatics, learning analytics, text analytics, image analytics, and computational discovery, among others.

Research-Active Faculty
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Associate Professor

Digital Health; Human-Computer Interaction; Human-centered AI for Health

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Assistant Teaching Professor

Learning Analytics; Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL); Epistemic Agency

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Assistant Professor

AI; HCI; Computational Social Science

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Assistant Professor

Machine Learning; Adversarial Machine Learning; Security and Privacy in Machine Learning

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Associate Teaching Professor

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Assistant Professor

Explainable AI; HCI

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Associate Teaching Professor

programming paradigms, abstract math, data science, functional programming, system thinking, open-source software

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Associate Professor

Data Science; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Technology

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Professor

Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning ; Causal Inference

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Associate Professor

Artificial Intelligence; Multiagent Systems; Algorithmic Fairness

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Assistant Professor

System Security; Software Security

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David Reese Professor of Information Sciences and Technology

Biomedical Image Data Analysis; Computer Vision; Machine Learning

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Associate Professor

Natural Language Processing; Human-Computer Interaction; Crowdsourcing & Human Computation

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Assistant Professor

Software Security; Robotic Vehicle Security; Embedded Systems Security

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Haile Family Early Career Professor in IST

Human-computer Interaction; Computer-Supported Cooperative Work; Social Computing

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Assistant Professor

Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning; Cyber-Physical Systems (Transportation, Energy)

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Professor and Director of Doctoral Programs

Cybersecurity; Data Science and Machine Learning; Social Computing

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Assistant Professor

Applied Machine Learning on Graphs; Trustworthy Machine Learning; Data Mining and Data Science

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Assistant Professor

Data Mining; Health Care Informatics; Machine Learning

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Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Affairs

Humanitarian Informatics; Refugee Tech; Critical data studies

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Assistant Professor

AI for Science; High-performance computing; Dynamical systems

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Teaching Professor

Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Transaction Security

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Assistant Professor

Machine Learning and AI; Privacy and Security; Science of Science

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Assistant Professor

Scale Reliant Inference; Partially Identified Models; Estimation Theory

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Frymoyer Chair in Information Sciences and Technology

Privacy; Access Control; Online Deviance

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Assistant Teaching Professor

Trustworthy Indications of Social Interactions In-person and Online; Human-Computer Interaction; Behavioral Moderators

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Associate Teaching Professor

smart cities, knowledge management, organizational learning, intelligent education systems

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Associate Teaching Professor

Multidisciplinary Engineering; IoT to IoE; Edge Computing

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Distinguished Professor of Information Sciences and Technology

Biomedical Informatics; Affective Computing; Robotics and Computer Vision

Suhang Wang

Associate Professor

Data Mining; Graph Mining; Machine Learning

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Associate Professor

Natural Language Processing; Privacy; Computational Social Science

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Dewey Walker Professor in IST

Cybersecurity; Machine Learning; Software Systems

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Assistant Professor

Reinforcement Learning; Automated Machine Learning; Online Optimization/Learning/Decision-making

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Associate Professor

Responsible Artificial Intelligence; Social Network Analysis; Machine Learning

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Professor

Artificial Intelligence; Cybersecurity; Machine Learning, Deep Representation Learning

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Associate Professor

Data Mining; Machine Learning; Big Data Analytics

Recent News

IST doctoral student featured on NPR news affiliate podcast

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Jason Lucas, a graduate student pursuing a doctoral degree in informatics in the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology, was a guest speaker on a podcast hosted by NPR affiliate WXXI in Rochester, New York. 

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James Z. Wang featured in opinion piece on 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — John H. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton earned the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for their “foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”

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(Mis)Informed Voters

Robocalls that sound just like the president but aren’t. Videos of political figures doing or saying things they’ve never done. Social media posts created by ChatGPT, not humans.

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