Affiliated Faculty

AI in Society

Understanding and Shaping the Future of AI to Benefit Everyone

Organizing Faculty

These are the organizing faculty for AI in Society at North Carolina State University.  

Note: Asterisks (*) indicate affiliates from institutions external to NC State University.

Dr. William Bauer

Associate Teaching Professor

Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies

https://chass.ncsu.edu/people/wabauer/

Dr. Veljko Dubljević

Editor-in-Chief, American Journal of Bioethics - Neuroscience

Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies

Science, Technology and Society (STS)

CHASS Faculty Profile

NeuroComputational Ethics Research Group

Dr. George List

Professor and Former Head

Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering

https://www.ccee.ncsu.edu/people/gflist/

Darby Orcutt

Director of Interdisciplinary Partnerships

North Carolina State University Libraries

https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/staff/dcorcutt

Dr. Munindar Singh

Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor, Department of Computer Science

North Carolina State University

https://www.or.ncsu.edu/people/mpsingh/

Affiliate Faculty

These North Carolina State University faculty are affiliated with the AI in Society Group at NC State.

Dr. Aram Amassian

Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Carbon Electronics Cluster

https://www.mse.ncsu.edu/people/aamassi/


Dr. Tom Birkland

Professor, Public Administration

Associate Dean for Research and Engagement, CHASS

http://go.ncsu.edu/birkland

Dr. Alice Cheng

Associate Professor

Director of Studying Broad Communication Program- China

Department of Communication

https://chass.ncsu.edu/people/ycheng20/

Dr. Danjue Chen

Associate Professor

Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering (CCEE)

College of Engineering

https://www.ccee.ncsu.edu/people/dchen33/

Dr. Min Chi

Associate Professor, Computer Science

https://people.engr.ncsu.edu/mchi/

Dr. Huiling Ding

Professor, Technical Communication and Rhetoric

Director, MS in Technical Communication

https://huilingding.wordpress.ncsu.edu/

Dr. Rudra Dutta

Professor and Associate Head, Computer Science 

http://dutta.csc.ncsu.edu/

Dr. Arnav Jhala

Associate Professor, Computer Science

http://go.ncsu.edu/arnav

Dr. Shiyan Jiang

Assistant Professor, Learning Design and Technology

https://ced.ncsu.edu/people/sjiang24/

Dr. Crystal Chen Lee

Assistant Professor

English Language Arts Education

https://ced.ncsu.edu/people/cchen32/

Dr. Kevin P. Lee *

Intel Social Equity and Racial Justice Professor

Professor of Law, North Carolina Central University

https://law.nccu.edu/academics/techlawcenter/kevin-lee/

Dr. James Lester

Goodnight Distinguished University Professor in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning & Director of the Center for Educational Informatics

Computer Science

College of Engineering

https://www.csc.ncsu.edu/people/lester

Dr. Terri Long

Associate Professor

Plant and Microbial Biology

College of Agriculture & Life Sciences

https://longlab.wordpress.ncsu.edu/

Dr. Meghan Manfra

Professor

College of Education

https://ced.ncsu.edu/people/mmmanfra/

Dr. Shawn Mankad

Assistant Professor

Analytics, Business Management

https://poole.ncsu.edu/people/shawn-mankad/

Dr. Noboru Matsuda

Associate Professor, Computer Science 

Director of the Innovative Educational Computing Laboratory

http://go.ncsu.edu/Matsuda

Dr. Steve McDonald

Professor of Sociology

College of Humanities & Social Sciences

https://smcdonald.wordpress.ncsu.edu/

Dr. Bill Rand

McLauchlan Distinguished Professor of Marketing

Executive Director of Business Analytics Initiative

Department of Business Management

https://poole.ncsu.edu/people/wmrand/

Dr. Douglas Rao

Research Scientist

North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies

https://ncics.org/people/douglas-rao/

Dr. Benjamin J. Reading

Associate Professor & University Faculty Scholar

Faculty Director Pamlico Aquaculture Field Laboratory

Faculty Director Lake Wheeler Field Laboratory Fish Barn

Co-Coordinator National Breeding Program for the Hybrid Striped Bass Industry

Aquaculture Co-Coordinator USDA NRSP-8 National Animal Genome Program

http://appliedecology.cals.ncsu.edu/faculty/benjamin-j-reading/

Dr. Xipeng Shen

Professor of Computer Science

ACM Distinguished Member

Director of High-Performance Intelligent Computing

University Faculty Scholars

https://research.csc.ncsu.edu/picture/xshen5/index.htm

Dr. Raju Vatsavai

Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program Cluster (CFEP) Professor in Geospatial Analytics

Computer Science

College of Engineering

https://rvatsavai.github.io/

Dr. Sarah Egan Warren

Assistant Teaching Professor of Advanced Analytics

Institute for Advanced Analytics

https://directory.ncsu.edu/users/seegan

Dr. Chau-Wai Wong

Assistant Professor

Electrical & Computer Engineering and Forensics Cluster

https://ece.ncsu.edu/people/cwong9/