2026 Faculty, Staff, & Student Awards
The 2025-2026 academic year has come to a close, so we're celebrating community achievement! Students, faculty, and staff were recognized this year for their work and impact.
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Associate Provost Azer Bestavros explains his vision to position BU at the forefront of a computing and data science world.
Crossing disciplines and using data, they are working to predict diseases in people, to reduce the gender wage gap, to help marginalized groups like undocumented immigrants and victims of domestic violence, and more
They are using data in the worlds of biology, public health, and self-driving cars to explore new career paths.
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The 2025-2026 academic year has come to a close, so we're celebrating community achievement! Students, faculty, and staff were recognized this year for their work and impact.
Boston University is joining a national effort to pioneer the forefront of artificial intelligence. Read here about how CDS is now apart of the NSF's AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI).
BU's Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering has announced its awardees for this year's fellowships and research programs!
This year's convocation speaker has been announced! Read all about industry leader Ari Balogh here.
Walk through the 2025 - 2026 school year in photos shot by CDS Student Event Photographer Isabella Boncser!
Read about CDS Assistant Professor Xuezhou “Jack” Zhang's award-winning research on AI-driven drug repurposing and more.
Read about CDS PhD Yan (Stella) Si's recent productivity tool project that she's launched to help students manage their busy days through AI.
The first ever Boston University MedAI Hackathon was hosted this semester by CDS faculty and students. Learn about what went into the event and its impact.