Christopher Dancy

Christopher Dancy is an Associate Professor at the Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Penn State University. His research focuses on integrating cognitive architectures with sociocultural systems to advance human-AI interaction and ethical AI development.

• Research Interests: Cognitive modeling, AI ethics, computational sociocultural representations, and physiological-cognitive integration.
• Grants: National Science Foundation (NSF) funding for projects like SocioCulturally Competent Agents and Computational Models of Humans for Human-AI Interaction.
• Collaborations: Interdisciplinary work in AI ethics, behavioral modeling, and critical race theory applications in technology.

His recent work includes analyzing generative AI responsibility, antiblackness in AI development, and computational models for social good. He emphasizes reducing systemic biases and improving human-AI collaboration through interdisciplinary frameworks.