People
C-SoDA Director and SoDA Program Head

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 and SoDA Graduate Director

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

Associate Teaching Professor of Political Science
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Social Data Analytics
Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies, Political Science
(814) 863-0743
C-SoDA Postdoctoral Scholars

C-SoDA Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2019-2021)
Faculty

McCourtney Professor of Sociology and Demography
Director, Life Course Center
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics

Associate Professor of Statistics
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics

Assistant Professor of Human Development & Family Studies
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate

Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology
Director, Spatial Information and Intelligence Laboratory
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics

Associate Professor of Geography
Director, Geoinformatics and Earth Observation Laboratory
Associate Director, Institute for CyberScience
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate

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

Professor, Information Sciences & Technology
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate

Distinguished Professor of Human Development & Family Studies, and Statistics
Director, The Methodology Center
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics

Associate Professor of Psychology
Director, Group Identity and Social Perception Lab
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Data Analytics
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate

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)

Professor of Sociology
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate

Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate

Associate Professor of Geography
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics

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

Professor of Psychology
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate

Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminology
Research Associate, Population Research Institute
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate

Professor of Statistics
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics

Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography
Co-PI, BDSS-IGERT
Graduate Faculty and Program Committee (2012-2017), Social Data Analytics

Professor of Political Science
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics

Associate Professor of Psychology
Director, Brain Injury and Plasticity Lab, Penn State Clinical Neuropsychology
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics

Associate Professor of Political Science
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics

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

Assistant Professor of Information Sciences & Technology
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate

Professor of Statistics
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate

Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate

Associate Professor of Geography
Director, ChoroPhronesis
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics

Professor of Sociology and Criminology
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics

Allen E. Pearce and Allen M. Pearce Professor of Industrial Engineering
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate

Assistant Teaching Professor of Political Science and Social Data Analytics

Director, The Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center
Professor of Biobehavioral Health
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics

Professor, Psychology
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
Director, Measurement and Applied Psychology Laboratory (MAP Lab)

Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering
Director, Intelligent Pervasive Data Access Group (iPDA)
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics

Eberly Family Chair Professor of Statistics and Public Health Sciences
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics

Professor of Statistics
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics

Associate Professor of Information Sciences & Technology
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate

Associate Teaching Professor of Political Science
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Social Data Analytics
Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies, Political Science
(814) 863-0743

Professor of Political Science
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate

Professor of Applied Linguistics and Asian Studies
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Demography
C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate

Professor of Geography
Director, GeoVISTA Center
Co-PI, BDSS-IGERT
Graduate Faculty and Program Committee (2015-2019), Social Data Analytics
C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate

Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate
(814) 865-0883

Liberal Arts Professor of Sociology, Anthropology, and Demography
Director, Program in Demography
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics

Assistant Professor of Psychology
Director, Contextual Awareness and Situational Assessment (CASA) Lab
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics

Assistant professor, psychology
C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate

Professor of Information Sciences & Technology
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate

Distinguished Professor of Human Development & Family Studies
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics

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)

Assistant Professor of Statistics
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate

Assistant Professor of Political Science and Social Data Analytics
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate

Associate Professor, Political Science
Affiliate Faculty, Penn State Law
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics

Associate Research Professor of Statistics
Managing Director, Statistical Consulting Center
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate

Assistant Professor of Human Development & Family Studies
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate

Associate Professor, Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate

Professor of Computer Science & Engineering
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate

Professor of Political Science and Sociology
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics

Assistant Professor, Information Sciences & Technology
Graduate Faculty and Program Committee (2019-), Social Data Analytics
C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate

Associate Professor of Human Development & Family Studies, and Psychology
Co-Director, StudioLab
Core Faculty, QuantDev (Quantitative Development Systems Methodology)
Graduate Faculty and Program Committee, Social Data Analytics
C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate

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

Assistant Professor of Geography
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Data Analytics
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate

Associate Professor of Communication Arts & Sciences
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate

Professor of Statistics
Co-PI, BDSS-IGERT
Graduate Faculty and Program Committee, Social Data Analytics
C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate

Liberal Arts Professor of Communication Arts & Sciences
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics

Assistant Professor of School of Engineering Design, Technology and Professional Programs
Director, Human-Centered AI Research Laboratory
C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate

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

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Demography, and Social Data Analytics
Graduate Faculty and Program Committee (2017-), Social Data Analytics
C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate

Professor of Information Sciences & Technology
Co-Director, Intelligent Information Systems Laboratory
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics

Assistant Professor, Information Sciences & Technology
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate

Associate Professor of Psychology
Director, Wyble Lab
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics

Assistant Professor of Statistics
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics

Professor of Sociology and Demography
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate

University Professor of Information Sciences & Technology, and Computer Science & Engineering
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics

Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology
Director, Knowledge Visualization Lab
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics

Associate Professor of Journalism, College of Communications
Graduate Faculty, Social Data Analytics
C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate

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

Graduate Staff Coordinator (Political Science / Social Data Analytics)
(814) 863-1595

Program Coordinator, BDSS-IGERT
Administrative Support Assistant, Political Science / SoDA

Administrative Assistant, Center for Social Data Analytics
(814) 867-2720

Undergraduate Staff Coordinator (Political Science / Social Data Analytics)
(814) 865-4597

Undergraduate Academic Advisor (Political Science / Social Data Analytics)

C-SoDA Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2019-2020)
Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Political Science, University of Essex (from Fall 2020)

Undergraduate Academic Advisor (Political Science / Social Data Analytics)

Undergraduate Academic Advisor (Political Science / Social Data Analytics)
(814) 865-4597