Earlier in May, the Hariri Institute for Computing announced its annual junior faculty and graduate student fellows. Below are the selections from CAS and GRS.
Junior Faculty Fellows
The Junior Faculty Fellows Program recognizes outstanding early-career computing and data-driven researchers at BU and supports their continued development by connecting them with one another and with the Institute community at large through various mechanisms and activities.
- Ana Fiszbein, Assistant Professor of Biology
Ana’s work investigates fundamental aspects of gene regulation using an interdisciplinary genomics-based approach. - Jihye Jeon, Assistant Professor of Economics
Jihye’s research field is industrial organization and recent work investigates the role of demand uncertainty in cyclical investment fluctuations in the container shipping industry.
Graduate Student Fellows
The Graduate Student Fellows Program recognizes outstanding Ph.D. students who are pursuing computing and data-driven research at BU. This recognition comes with a $5,000 award and empowers the fellow to help steer the direction of a Hariri Institute seminar series with other fellows.
- Afra Feyza Akyurek, Computer Science
Afra is currently interested in natural language processing, multimodal learning, and learning with less labels with applications to journalism and medicine. - Adam Samuels, Astronomy
Adam’s research focuses on the role of dark matter in galaxy formation; in particular, it looks at the distribution of satellite galaxies located around bright, isolated host galaxies. - Jianing Wang, Biostatistics
Jianing’s research is in areas of surveillance and monitoring of substance-use disorders, more specifically opioid-related disorders, and mathematical simulation modeling applied to general disease epidemic and infectious disease.