The Insights Lab at Penn State Great Valley provides a dynamic space for applied learning, where students and faculty can synergize their expertise and creativity using analytics and artificial intelligence to tackle pressing industry problems by translating data into insights.
Our vision is to foster collaboration and expose students to diverse perspectives, cultivating a community of problem-solvers equipped to navigate the complexities of modern industries, leaving a lasting imprint on the world through their innovative contributions. Through hands-on experience and mentorship, we empower our students to work collectively with faculty and corporate partners, bridging the gap between academia and industry, to enrich their educational journey beyond the classroom.
The Insights Lab offers business and industry an infrastructure, trained faculty, and graduate students to analyze large datasets, identify trends, and develop predictive models to solve complex real-world problems.
Research
Our research focuses on AI and analytics for cybersecurity, health care, manufacturing, and social good. Past projects have included:
- AI and cybersecurity: A multidisciplinary approach to design and deploy smart and secure service systems enabled by AI and blockchains
- AI and service science: Leveraging data and analytics for multiple disease risk prediction modeling after hospitalization, early Alzheimer’s disease detection, enhanced strategies for electric vehicle sharing, evaluating higher education ranking systems, and assessing service quality through public opinion aggregation
- Designing smart cities: Leveraging systems and technologies to improve city infrastructure and governance to address social, economic, and environmental challenges
- Prioritizing public health resource allocation: Optimizing COVID-19 epidemic control strategies in public transportation and metropolitan areas via network and simulation analysis
- Health misinformation: A data-driven approach to identify online misinformation regarding COVID-19
- Analyzing political sentiments: Insights from emotion classification of Twitter data for predicting 2020 presidential election results
Our students have a multitude of opportunities to share their work. We host an annual student poster competition, where students explain their research to a panel of faculty judges.
Industry Collaboration and Engagement
By partnering with the Insights Lab, your company can:
- Collaborate with a Research 1 university, skilled faculty, and talented graduate students to develop actionable insights from real data and accelerate innovation
- Access experts in data analytics and sponsor their work in tackling challenging industry problems and providing ground-breaking solutions
- Support trailblazing projects and collaborate with graduate faculty and students on research and capstone projects
- Engage with and recruit candidates for your workforce from some of Penn State’s brightest and most driven students
Industry Partners
- EigenX
- GlaxoSmithKline
- iLink Digital
- IQVIA
- Kreischer Miller
- PhenoMx, Inc.
- PQ Corp
- Qlik
- United
- United Way
Industry Day
Stay up to date on trends in the field by participating in Penn State Great Valley’s Industry Day. Examine current topics in artificial intelligence, data science, data analytics, and engineering, and connect and network with industry leaders.
Contact Us
Raghu Sangwan, Ph.D.
Associate Chief Academic Officer
Director of Engineering Programs
Director, Insights Lab
[email protected]
