Sarah Rajtmajer

Assistant Professor
Research Associate, Rock Ethics Institute
Associate Director, Center for Artificial Intelligence Foundations and Scientific Applications
Affiliate Faculty, Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence
Affiliate Faculty, Center for Social Data Analytics

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Email smr48@psu.edu
Phone 814-863-2554
Pronouns she, her, hers

Areas of Expertise

Machine Learning and AI
Privacy and Security
Science of Science

Education

Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Zagreb, Croatia
B.A., Mathematics, Columbia University

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Sarah Rajtmajer is an assistant professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology and research associate in the Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State. Her research integrates machine learning, AI, and hybrid human-AI systems to understand how information encodes values like accuracy, objectivity, and privacy and the trade-offs involved in managing healthy information ecosystems.

Before joining the Penn State faculty, she served as a consultant to the Defense and Intelligence communities on scientific programs for national security, with specific focus on initiatives in big data and computational social science.

Prior to her work in consulting, Dr. Rajtmajer was an Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Applied Research Laboratory and a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Mathematics at Penn State. She has a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Zagreb, Croatia, and a B.A. in mathematics from Columbia University.

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