People
- C-SoDA Director & SoDA Program Head
- C-SoDA Associate Director & SoDA Graduate Director
- SoDA Undergraduate Director
- C-SoDA Postdoctoral Scholars
- Graduate Students (Current)
- Faculty
- Staff
C-SoDA Director & SoDA Program Head
Burt Monroe
- Liberal Arts Professor of Political Science, Social Data Analytics, & Informatics
- Director, Center for Social Data Analytics [C-SoDA]
- Head, Program in Social Data Analytics [SoDA]
- Director and Principal Investigator, BDSS-IGERT (2012-2018)
- Director, Quantitative Social Science Initiative [QuaSSI] (2006-2018)
C-SoDA Associate Director & SoDA Graduate Director
Bruce Desmarais
- DeGrandis-McCourtney Early Career Professor in Political Science
- Associate Director, Center for Social Data Analytics (C-SoDA)
- Director of Graduate Studies, Program in Social Data Analytics
- Acting Director, BDSS-IGERT (Fall 2016)
- Director, IGaP Lab (Interdependence in Government and Policy)
SoDA Undergraduate Director
Amy Linch
- Associate Teaching Professor of Political Science
- Director of Undergraduate Studies, Social Data Analytics
- Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies, Political Science
(814) 863-0743
Graduate Students (Current)
Muhammed Kafi Cifci
- PhD Student, Political Science & Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Student Affiliate
Shipi Kankane Dhanorkar
- PhD Student, Informatics (SoDA Graduate Minor)
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 6 (2017-2018)
Sara Francisco
- Assistant Professor, Sociology Grinnell College (2022-)
- PhD Student, Sociology & Social Data Analytics
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 6 (2017-2018)
- C-SoDA Student Affiliate
Brittany Freelin
- PhD Student, Criminology (SoDA Graduate Minor)
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 6 (2017-2018)
- C-SoDA Student Affiliate
Ishita Gopal
- PhD Student, Political Science & Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Predoctoral Research Associate (2021-22)
Chris Julien
- PhD Student, Sociology & Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Student Affiliate
Mikaela Karstens
- PhD Student, Political Science
- C-SoDA Predoctoral Research Associate (2019-2020)
Claire Kelling
- PhD Student, Statistics & Social Data Analytics
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 6 (2017-18)
- C-SoDA Student Affiliate
Sangyeon Kim
- PhD Student, Political Science & Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Student Affiliate
Sun Ah Lee
- PhD Student, Human Development and Family Studies & Social Data Analytics
Maya Merhi
- PhD Student, Informatics & Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Student Affiliate
Nitheesha Nakka
- PhD Student, Political Science & Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Student Affiliate
So Young Park
- PhD Student, Recreation, Park, & Tourism Management (SoDA Graduate Minor)
- C-SoDA Student Affiliate
Sayali Phadke
- PhD Student, Statistics (SoDA Graduate Minor)
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 4 (2015-2017)
Robert Zuchowski
- PhD Student, Sociology & Demography (SoDA Graduate Minor)
- BDSS-IGERT Fellow, Cohort 5 (2016-18)
Faculty
Duane Alwin
- McCourtney Professor of Sociology and Demography
- Director, Life Course Center
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Timothy Brick
- Assistant Professor of Human Development & Family Studies
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Guoray Cai
- Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology
- Director, Spatial Information and Intelligence Laboratory
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Guido Cervone
- Associate Professor of Geography
- Director, Geoinformatics and Earth Observation Laboratory
- Associate Director, Institute for CyberScience
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Guangqing Chi
- Associate Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography
- Director, Computational and Spatial Analysis Core, Population Research Institute
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Chao-Hsien Chu
- Professor, Information Sciences & Technology
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Linda Collins
- Distinguished Professor of Human Development & Family Studies, and Statistics
- Director, The Methodology Center
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Jonathan Cook
- Associate Professor of Psychology
- Director, Group Identity and Social Perception Lab
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Daniel DellaPosta
- Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Data Analytics
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Bruce Desmarais
- DeGrandis-McCourtney Early Career Professor in Political Science
- Associate Director, Center for Social Data Analytics (C-SoDA)
- Director of Graduate Studies, Program in Social Data Analytics
- Acting Director, BDSS-IGERT (Fall 2016)
- Director, IGaP Lab (Interdependence in Government and Policy)
Diane Felmlee
- Professor of Sociology
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Zachary Fisher
- Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Christopher Fowler
- Associate Professor of Geography
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Lee Giles
- David Reese Professor of Information Sciences and Technology
- Director, The Intelligent Information Systems Research Laboratory
- Graduate Faculty, Computer Science and Engineering
- Professor (by courtesy), Supply Chain and Information Systems
- Co-PI, BDSS-IGERT
- Graduate Faculty and Program Committee (2012-17), Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Rick Gilmore
- Professor of Psychology
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Corina Graif
- Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminology
- Research Associate, Population Research Institute
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Melissa Hardy
- Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography
- Co-PI, BDSS-IGERT
- Graduate Faculty and Program Committee (2012-2017), Social Data Analytics
Peter Hatemi
- Professor of Political Science
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Frank Hillary
- Associate Professor of Psychology
- Director, Brain Injury and Plasticity Lab, Penn State Clinical Neuropsychology
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Marie Hojnacki
- Associate Professor of Political Science
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Vasant Honavar
- Professor and Edward Frymoyer Chair of Information Sciences and Technology
- Director, Center for Big Data Analytics and Discovery Informatics
- Director, Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory
- Associate Director, Institute for CyberScience
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Ting-Hao (Kenneth) Huang
- Assistant Professor of Information Sciences & Technology
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
David Hunter
- Professor of Statistics
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Daniel Kifer
- Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Alexander Klippel
- Associate Professor of Geography
- Director, ChoroPhronesis
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Derek Kreager
- Professor of Sociology and Criminology
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Soundar Kumara
- Allen E. Pearce and Allen M. Pearce Professor of Industrial Engineering
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Jeremy Ladd
- Assistant Teaching Professor of Political Science and Social Data Analytics
Stephanie Lanza
- Director, The Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center
- Professor of Biobehavioral Health
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
James LeBreton
- Professor, Psychology
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- Director, Measurement and Applied Psychology Laboratory (MAP Lab)
Wang-Chien Lee
- Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering
- Director, Intelligent Pervasive Data Access Group (iPDA)
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Runze Li
- Eberly Family Chair Professor of Statistics and Public Health Sciences
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Zhenhui (Jessie) Li
- Associate Professor of Information Sciences & Technology
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Amy Linch
- Associate Teaching Professor of Political Science
- Director of Undergraduate Studies, Social Data Analytics
- Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies, Political Science
(814) 863-0743
Suzanna Linn
- Professor of Political Science
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Xiaofei Lu
- Professor of Applied Linguistics and Asian Studies
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Alan MacEachren
- Professor of Geography
- Director, GeoVISTA Center
- Co-PI, BDSS-IGERT
- Graduate Faculty and Program Committee (2015-2019), Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Kamesh Madduri
- Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
(814) 865-0883
Stephen Matthews
- Liberal Arts Professor of Sociology, Anthropology, and Demography
- Director, Program in Demography
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Rustin Meyer
- Assistant Professor of Psychology
- Director, Contextual Awareness and Situational Assessment (CASA) Lab
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Prasenjit Mitra
- Professor of Information Sciences & Technology
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Peter Molenaar
- Distinguished Professor of Human Development & Family Studies
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Burt Monroe
- Liberal Arts Professor of Political Science, Social Data Analytics, & Informatics
- Director, Center for Social Data Analytics [C-SoDA]
- Head, Program in Social Data Analytics [SoDA]
- Director and Principal Investigator, BDSS-IGERT (2012-2018)
- Director, Quantitative Social Science Initiative [QuaSSI] (2006-2018)
Kari Lock Morgan
- Assistant Professor of Statistics
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Kevin Munger
- Assistant Professor of Political Science and Social Data Analytics
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Michael Nelson
- Associate Professor, Political Science
- Affiliate Faculty, Penn State Law
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Xiaoyue (Maggie) Niu
- Associate Research Professor of Statistics
- Managing Director, Statistical Consulting Center
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Zita Oravecz
- Assistant Professor of Human Development & Family Studies
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Bing Pan
- Associate Professor, Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Rebecca Passonneau
- Professor of Computer Science & Engineering
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Eric Plutzer
- Professor of Political Science and Sociology
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Sarah Rajtmajer
- Assistant Professor, Information Sciences & Technology
- Graduate Faculty and Program Committee (2019-), Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Frank Ritter
- Professor of Information Sciences & Technology, Psychology, and Computer Science & Engineering
- Co-Director, Applied Cognitive Science Lab
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Anthony Robinson
- Assistant Professor of Geography
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Charles Seguin
- Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Data Analytics
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Lijiang (L J) Shen
- Associate Professor of Communication Arts & Sciences
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Aleksandra (Sesa) Slavkovic
- Professor of Statistics
- Co-PI, BDSS-IGERT
- Graduate Faculty and Program Committee, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Rachel Smith
- Liberal Arts Professor of Communication Arts & Sciences
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Farnaz Tehranchi
- Assistant Professor of School of Engineering Design, Technology and Professional Programs
- Director, Human-Centered AI Research Laboratory
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Conrad Tucker
- Associate Professor of Engineering Design, Industrial Engineering, and Computer Science
- Director, Design Analysis Technology Advancement (DATA) Lab
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Ashton M. Verdery
- Assistant Professor of Sociology, Demography, and Social Data Analytics
- Graduate Faculty and Program Committee (2017-), Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
James Wang
- Professor of Information Sciences & Technology
- Co-Director, Intelligent Information Systems Laboratory
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Shomir Wilson
- Assistant Professor, Information Sciences & Technology
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Bradley Wyble
- Associate Professor of Psychology
- Director, Wyble Lab
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Lingzhou Xue
- Assistant Professor of Statistics
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Scott Yabiku
- Professor of Sociology and Demography
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
John Yen
- University Professor of Information Sciences & Technology, and Computer Science & Engineering
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Xiaolong (Luke) Zhang
- Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology
- Director, Knowledge Visualization Lab
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Bu Zhong
- Associate Professor of Journalism, College of Communications
- Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Christopher Zorn
- Liberal Arts Professor of Political Science
- Affiliate Faculty, Penn State Law
- Associate Director, BDSS-IGERT
- Graduate Faculty and Program Committee, Social Data Analytics
- C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
Staff
Angela Hill
- Undergraduate Staff Coordinator (Political Science / Social Data Analytics)
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Kristie Kalvin
- Undergraduate Academic Advisor (Political Science / Social Data Analytics)
Howard Liu
- C-SoDA Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2019-2020)
- Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Political Science, University of Essex (from Fall 2020)
Greg Nolan
- Undergraduate Academic Advisor (Political Science / Social Data Analytics)
Mia Parise
- Undergraduate Academic Advisor (Political Science / Social Data Analytics)
(814) 865-4597