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Faculty - College of Information Sciences and Technology

David HallDavid Hall
Professor of Information Sciences & Technology
Director of the Center for Network-Centric Cognition and Information
101K IST Building, University Park
Phone: 814-867-2154
E-mail: dhall@ist.psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Stellar Structures, Celestial Mechanics, Digital Signal Processing, Software Engineering, and Automated Reasoning. Multisensor Data Fusion.

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Jim JansenJim Jansen
Assistant Professor of Information Sciences and Technology
329F Information Sciences and Technology Building, University Park
Phone: 814-865-6459
E-mail: jjansen@ist.psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Data mining, N-grams, Markov Models, Tensors.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Jim Jansen's Personal Homepage

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Dongwon LeeDongwon Lee
Assistant Professor of Information Sciences and Technology
313A Information Sciences and Technology Building, University Park
Phone: 814-865-0687
E-mail: dongwon@psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Large-scale Data Management and Data Mining, Scientific Database Management, Digital Libraries and Information Retrieval.

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Prasenjit MitraPrasenjit Mitra
Assistant Professor of Information Sciences and Technology
313F Information Sciences and Technology Building, University Park
Phone: 814-865-4454
E-mail: pmitra@psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Information Extraction, Computational Chemistry, Data Mining, Social Networks.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
The Intelligent Information Systems Research Laboratory

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Madhu ReddyMadhu Reddy
Assistant Professor of Information Sciences & Technology
321K IST Building, University Park
Phone: 814-863-6316
E-mail: mreddy@ist.psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Medical Informatics, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Human-Computer Interaction, and Information Sciences.

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Frank Ritter
Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology, Psychology, and Computer Science & Engineering
316G Information Sciences and Technology Building, University Park
Phone: 814-865-4453
E-mail: frank.ritter@psu.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cognitive Modeling, Cognitive Science, Human-computer Interaction, HPC for Model Optimization and Understanding.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Applied Cognitive Science Lab
ACS Lab Papers

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Brian SmithBrian Smith
Associate Professor of Information Sciences & Technology
101E IST Building, University Park
Phone: 814-865-4445
E-mail: bsmith@ist.psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: The use of computation to support and augment human performance and learning, ways ubiquitous computing technologies can be created to assist people in reflecting on prior beliefs and ways of doing. Examples of his work include video annotation systems for biology education, GPS-enabled cameras and image databases for history education, and interventions around photography and computer visualizations to promote awareness of personal health practices. Current projects are underway to explore information design for informal, everyday decision-making.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Brian Smith's Web Site

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James WangJames Wang
Associate Professor of Information Sciences & Technology
313C IST Building, University Park
Phone: 814-865-7889
E-mail: wang@ist.psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Automatic image tagging, semantics-sensitive image retrieval, image security, biomedical informatics, computational aesthetics, story picturing, art image retrieval, and computer vision.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
James Wang's Research Group

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Heng XuHeng Xu
Assistant Professor of Information Sciences & Technology
307C IST Building, University Park
Phone: 814-867-0469
E-mail: hxu@ist.psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Dr. Xu leads the Privacy Assurance Lab (PAL), an inter-disciplinary research group working on a diverse set of projects related to understanding and assuring information privacy. Currently focused on the interplay between social and technological issues associated with information privacy, Xu approaches privacy issues through a combination of empirical, theoretical and technical research efforts. Her research projects deal with the impact of novel technologies on individuals' privacy perceptions, strategic management of firms' information privacy practices, and design and empirical evaluations of privacy-enhancing technologies.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Heng Xu's Web Site

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John YenJohn Yen
University Professor of Information Sciences & Technology
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs, College of Information Sciences & Technology
Director, Laboratory for Intelligent Agents
316B IST Building, University Park
Phone: 814-865-6179
E-mail: jyen@ist.psu.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Intelligent Agents, Artificial Intelligence, Soft Computing, and Bioinformatics.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
John Yen's Web Site

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