At Penn State Great Valley’s Industry Engagement Day, leaders from industry and academia explored how they combine their expertise with artificial intelligence (AI) to tackle challenges across diverse sectors. The campus is seeking new collaborations with industry partners who want to consult with expert faculty and students to improve their operations and solve complex business problems.
Degree‑seeking graduate students from all Penn State colleges and campuses are invited to register for the 2026 Graduate Exhibition, which will take place Friday, March 27, on the University Park campus.
What can technologists do to help artificial intelligence (AI) comply with ethical values for the public good? A team, including researchers from Penn State, explored ways that blockchain — the technology behind cryptocurrency — could help enforce ethical boundaries for AI systems.
Engineering management faculty member Ashkan Negahban shared his research on simulations to enhance learning and system performance. He explained why he enjoys research, the impact of his work and how he has seen students grow from conducting their own research projects.
Graduate assistants across multiple Penn State campuses will soon vote in a unionization election, following an order issued by the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board. All students are encouraged to make a thoughtful, informed vote, and can find information on how unionization would affect them at gradfacts.psu.edu.
Pornsit “P.J.” Jiraporn, professor of finance, says his work as a researcher is like being an intellectual explorer, going where no one has gone before and creating new knowledge. He specializes in corporate finance and governance, corporate social responsibility, dividend policy and more. His work has been cited by other scholars more than 13,000 times, and he was named to a top-cited researcher list compiled and updated by a team of researchers at Stanford University.
When Bharat Sharma was accepted to Penn State Great Valley’s Master of Data Analytics program, he said he remembered feeling joy that gave way to uncertainty about how he would afford graduate school. A scholarship fueled his studies and his research, helping him use technology to make people’s jobs easier.
For his master's degree in artificial intelligence (AI), Nicholas Gahman explored new frontiers in technology, such as integrating machine learning into cybersecurity as part of his capstone project. He said he is looking forward to using his skills in his new job as an AI research engineer at Lockheed Martin.
A team of Penn State Great Valley professors and students studied how well large language models, such as ChatGPT and Claude, can solve data science coding challenges. The researchers presented their work at the International Conference on Mining Software Repositories and won the Distinguished Paper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Software Engineering.
Penn State Scranton Assistant Professor of Business Nonna Sorokina gave a presentation on research exploring sustainable energy investments. The research involved collaboration with several colleagues, including Saya Lee, assistant professor in the Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering at Penn State, and Darshana Sunoj and Hyungjin Kim, graduates of the Penn State Department of Economics.
