Data sciences is changing the way we act and make decisions, and the field is poised to drive our behavior for decades to come. Given the University’s strengths in computing and data sciences, it only made sense that we organize to lead in this emerging field.
As a sophomore, Ian Ballou (ENG’19) worked as an undergraduate researcher for Mass Open Cloud, an academic, industry, and government partnership housed at the Hariri Institute. A year later, Ballou landed a research internship with the BU Red Hat Collaboratory, an alliance between the multinational open-source software company and the University. There, Ballou’s work drew notice and led to his current position as a software engineer at Red Hat.Ashni Shah (CAS’20) interned this past summer at the Software & Application Innovation Lab (SAIL) at Boston University’s Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering. There, she worked on a framework for building web-based applications that employ secure multiparty computation, a cryptographic technique that allows for data sharing while maintaining privacy.
