Current Research Projects

Research in IST cuts across traditional boundaries to drive interdisciplinary discovery and innovation. Our research is sponsored by a variety of national and international agencies, and we collaborate with diverse groups of scholars within and beyond Penn State. Explore our funded projects to see how IST's transformative research is addressing the world's most complex problems at the intersection of information, technology, and society.

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Researcher:
Ma, Fenglong
Sponsoring Agency: National Science Foundation
This project is aimed at developing and testing new algorithms and techniques for analyzing and integrating different types of health care data, such as electronic health records, medical imaging, and patient-generated data. Learn more...
Research Areas: Data Sciences and Artificial Intelligence, Privacy and Security, Social and Organizational Informatics
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Researcher:
Haynes, Steven
Sponsoring Agency: USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Focusing on Novel Pest and Disease Management Strategies for US Mushroom FarmsLearn more...
Research Areas: Social and Organizational Informatics
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Researcher:
Wang, Suhang
Sponsoring Agency: National Science Foundation
This project proposes novel principles and mechanisms for scalable and interpretable graph neural networks to facilitate the adoption of GNNs on critical domains, investigates associated fundamental research issues and develops effective algorithms. The project offers the first comprehensive investigation on these directions, and the designed novel methodologies and tasks will deepen our understanding on the inner working mechanisms of GNNs and contribute to real-world applications. Learn more...
Research Areas: Data Sciences and Artificial Intelligence, Social and Organizational Informatics
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