Faculty

John Yen
Co-Director and University Professor, College of Information Sciences and Technology

Prasenjit Mitra
Co-Director and Associate Professor, College of Information Sciences and Technology

Eugene J. Lengerich
Director, Community Sciences and Health Outcomes Core, Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute

S. Shyam Sunder
Distinguished Professor & Co-Director, Media Effects Research Laboratory, College of Communications

S. Shyam Sundar (PhD, Stanford) is distinguished professor and founding director of the Media Effects Research Laboratory at Penn State University’s College of Communications. His research investigates social and psychological effects of interactive tools in online media interfaces. A major focus of his research is on user experience and outcomes of customization, with emphasis on the use of technologies for motivating individuals to perform health actions. Sundar has been identified as the most published author of Internet-related research in the field during the medium’s first decade. His research is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Korea Science and Engineering Foundation, among others. He was elected chair of the Communication & Technology division and Vice-President of the International Communication Association, 2008-2010.

Niraj J. Gusani
Assistant Professor of Surgery and Public Health Sciences, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

Zhenhui Jessie Li
Assistant Professor , College of Information Sciences and Technology

Cornelia Caragea
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of North Texas

Cornelia is an  Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at University of North Texas. Her research areas of interest are Machine Learning, Text Mining, Recommender Systems, Natural Language Processing, Sentiment and Subjectivity Analysis, and Social Network Analysis. Her research in the context of the Cancer Informatics Initiatives is to automatically estimate the sentiment of forum posts, to identify opinion leaders who play an important role in the sustainability of the network, and to capture "who-talks-to-whom" structure of the community.

Kang Zhao
Assistant Professor, Department of Management Sciences, Tippie College of Business
Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Informatics
The University of Iowa

Kang Zhao’s research focuses on social computing and business analytics, including the analysis, modeling, mining, and simulation of social/business networks and social media. He received his Ph.D. in Information Sciences and Technology from Penn State University (supervised by Dr. John Yen).

Ginger Moore
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology

Ginger Moore is a research clinical psychologist with expertise in the study of emotion. Her research examines the impact of social relationships on bio-behavioral systems of emotion regulation that function as risk or protective factors for psychological adjustment. Her work emphasizes issues affecting women’s health and well-being and those of their families, including postpartum depression and marital conflict, and, recently, relations among mood and social networking participation in breast cancer patients.

Jia Li
Professor, Department of Statistics

Dinghao Wu
Assistant Professor , College of Information Sciences and Technology

Xiaolong (Luke) Zhang
Associate Professor, College of Information Sciences and Technology

Lei Zhen
Assistant Professor, Energy and Environmental Economics, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences

Mohan J Dutta
Professor of Communication and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education, College of Liberal Art, Purdue University

Dave Hall
Dean and Professor, College of Information Sciences and Technology, Founding Director of Center for Network-Centric Cognition and Information Fusion(NC2IF)

Lior Rokach
Visiting Professor, Department of Information Systems Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Lior Rokach is an Associate Professor of Information Systems and Software Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Dr. Rokach is a recognized expert in intelligent information systems and has held several leading positions in this field. His main areas of interest are Machine Learning, Information Security, Recommender Systems and Information Retrieval.

Research Scientists

Wade Shumaker
3D Visualization Reseracher, College of Information Sciences and Technology

Students

Hyun-Woo Kim
PhD Candidate, College of Information Sciences and Technology

Prakhar Biyani
PhD Candidate, College of Information Sciences and Technology

Mo Yu
PhD Candidate, College of Information Sciences and Technology

Yafei Wang
PhD Student, College of Information Sciences and Technology

Chong Zhou
PhD Student, College of Information Sciences and Technology

Siddhartha Banerjee
PhD Student, College of Information Sciences and Technology

Siddhatha Banerjee is interested in the field of machine learning and information extraction. His research is mainly directed towards gaining insights from unstructured text using text mining and natural language processing techniques.

Antonio Kellam
Summer Research Fellow, College of Science, Engineering and Technology, Norfolk State University

Nir Ofek
Visiting Scientist, PhD student, Department of Information Systems Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Nir Ofek (M.Sc.) is a PhD student in the Information Systems Engineering in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. His main areas of interest are text mining and sentiment analysis , machine learning, data-mining and security. Mr Ofek has a strong background in text mining gained through holding the sole research position in few Israeli start-ups.

Alumni

Baojun Qiu
PhD, Senior Research Scientist at e-Bay