Faculty, students, and collaborators.

Tanusree works at the intersection of security, AI, and HCI. She studies people's safety concerns, decision-making behaviors, and the role of power dynamics in innovation across the AI development lifecycle — addressing complex privacy and safety challenges in AI, and leveraging AI's capabilities to solve long-standing privacy issues.

Aljawharah is a first-year PhD student at Penn State, studying the intersection of privacy, safety, and HCI, with a particular focus on how vulnerable populations such as children interact with and are affected by generative AI. She is currently working on co-design research with parents and children across cross-cultural contexts (US, EU, and Bangladesh) to develop inclusive digital safety solutions for GenAI.

Lili is a first-year PhD student at Penn State, studying informatics with an interest in privacy, governance, and the intersection of social systems and data — specifically content authenticity and provenance for privacy and governance, and algorithmic ethics at the intersection of data and society.

Yihao is a Master's student at Penn State. His research focuses on intimacy and attachment in digital spaces — how people form intimacy, attachment, and emotional relationships online, especially within online gaming and virtual communities, including romantic interactions in MMORPGs and cosplay culture in otome game communities.

Tory is a Cyber Security Analytics and Operations student at Penn State, interested in applying AI and data analysis to strengthen proactive cyber defense, accessibility, and secure software development — particularly deepfake detection, cloud security, and emerging threats in human-centered technologies.

Ryan is a Schreyer Honors Scholar at Penn State. His research interests center on cybersecurity operations, vulnerability management, and risk analysis within enterprise and financial systems, particularly strengthening secure infrastructure through compliance testing, patch management, and AI-driven threat detection. He has interned at EY and Dow Jones.

Gwen is a Schreyer Honors Scholar at Penn State. Her research interests focus on digital health adoption, human-computer interaction, and technology accessibility among underserved and aging populations — exploring how usability, perceived usefulness, and equitable technology design can improve healthcare engagement and reduce digital health disparities.

Anish is an undergraduate student at Penn State. He works in traditional cybersecurity threat modeling and risk assessment.