William L. Weiss Professor of Information and Communications Technology
Engineering & Technology, Telecommunications
Associate Professor of Geography and African Studies
Social Sciences, Civil Rights, Politics & Policy
Penn State faculty experts are available to speak on a wide range of issues as they emerge on the campaign trail, including election security, civil rights and social movements, climate change, infectious diseases, immigration laws, and many more topics.
William L. Weiss Professor of Information and Communications Technology,
Director of the Institute for Networking and Security Research
Contact Patrick McDaniel with questions about: Mobile device security, adversarial machine learning, systems security, program analysis for security, and the integrity and security of election systems
Palmer Chair in Telecommunications,
Director of the X-Lab
Contact Sascha Meinrath with questions about: the coronavirus pandemic's impacts on Internet connectivity. He can also comment on voting security, technology policy, privacy, surveillance, civil liberties, broadband mapping and artificial intelligence.
Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar,
Clinical Professor of Law,
Director, Center for Immigrants' Rights Clinic
Contact Shoba Wadhia with questions about: Wadhia is an expert on immigration law whose research focuses on the role of prosecutorial discretion in immigration law and the intersections of race, national security and immigration.
Associate Professor of Political Science
Contact Michael Nelson with questions about: effects of judicial elections, public support for courts in the United States, including the U.S. Supreme Court, and abroad, and the effects of collegiality on judicial behavior.
Associate Professor of Geography and African Studies
Contact Joshua Inwood with questions about: the social, political, and economic structures of vulnerable populations.
Professor of International Affairs and Asian Studies
Contact Flynt Leverett with questions about: Middle East, energy and the economic dimensions of international security, and Chinese foreign policy.
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