Team Members
Current members, collaborators, and alumni.
Principal Investigator
PhD Students
Md Touhidul Islam
Started Spring 2021
Email: mqi5127@psu.edu
Background: B.Sc. in CSE, BUET.
Research interest: Accessibility API in VR/Unity, UI adaptation, and user modeling.
Md Ehtesham-Ul-Haque
Started Spring 2021
Email: mfe5232@psu.edu
Background: B.Sc. in CSE, BUET.
Research interest: Grid Coding and multi-modal interaction.
Imran Kabir
Started Fall 2023
Email: ibk5106@psu.edu
Background: B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, MIST.
Research interest: Input devices, Human-Centered AI, Human-Robot Interaction.
Nathan Noel Aileo
Started Fall 2025
Email: nna102@psu.edu
Research interest: Assistive Kitchen Technologies.
Albert Zhang
Co-advising since Fall 2025
Research interest: Use of LLMs for Qualitative Research.
Research Associate
Yaoyu He
Research interest: LLM Context Engineering.
Collaborators
Jingyi Xie
Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, San Jose State University.
Mahir Akgun
Associate Teaching Professor and Coordinator, B.S. in Artificial Intelligence Methods and Applications.
Naimul Hoque
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Iowa.
John M. Carroll
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, College of IST, Penn State.
Somayeh Asadi
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Virginia.
Krista Wilkinson
Distinguished Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders, Penn State.
Dawn Sowers
Associate Professor, School of Communication Science and Disorders, Florida State University.
Sooyeon Lee
Assistant Professor, NJIT.
Md Alimoor Reza
Assistant Professor, Department of Math and CS, Drake University.
MS and Undergraduate Students
Aishwarya Chinchankar
MS in Informatics, Penn State.
Thomas (TJ) Kiedaisch
Summer 2024 Intern, Informatics, Penn State.
Sama Mehta
MS in Informatics (Spring 2024), Penn State.
Emily Martin
Summer 2024 Intern, Informatics, Penn State.
Zheyu Zhang
M.S. Student, Informatics, Penn State.
Alumni
Farhani Momotaz
MS in Informatics (Spring 2022), Penn State.
Yaun-Hao Hsu
MS in Informatics, Penn State, 2023.
Mahjabin Nahar
Studied why students watched study-with-me videos.
Chaeeun Han
Worked in M.S. Informatics program (2021), Penn State.
Glenn Hubbard
Senior, Schreyer Honors College, Penn State.
Kathleen Shatinsky
Undergraduate Student, Fall 2020, Informatics, Penn State.
Rachel Bartuska
Undergraduate Student, Fall 2020, Penn State.
Lay Patel
MS in Computer Science, Penn State, 2023.