DK Lee
Dokyun “DK” Lee is a Kelli Questrom Associate Professor of Information Systems and Digital Business Fellow in the Questrom School of Business. He studies the responsible application, development, and impact of artificial intelligence in e-commerce and the digital economy, with a heavy focus on the economic impact of textual data, along with content extraction, understanding, […]
Ana Fiszbein
Ana Fiszbein is an Assistant Professor of Biology. Drawing on molecular, computational, genomics, and evolutionarily approaches, her research focuses on the mechanisms, regulation, and evolution of mammalian gene expression. Her current projects are focused on understanding the mechanistic connections between transcription and splicing in human transcriptomics, and their dysregulation in cancer. Her recent sponsors include […]
Iván Fernández-Val
Iván Fernández-Val is a Professor at the Department of Economics. His research fields are Econometrics and Labor Economics. He has recently worked on nonlinear panel data, distributional and causal methods, and applications of machine learning to causal inference. His work has been published in top economic and statistics journals such as Biometrika, Econometrica, Journal of […]
Leonidas Kontothanassis
Boston University warmly welcomes Leonidas Kontothanassis as the Inaugural MassMutual Professor of the Practice in the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS). Funded by a generous gift from MassMutual, this new position brings industry expertise to classroom teaching and laboratory research focused on societally relevant real-world problems. Professors of the Practice are officers of […]
Ziba Cranmer
Ziba Cranmer is the Founding Director for BU Spark!, housed at the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences. Ziba is an innovation leader with diverse experience spanning the public and private sectors. Ziba is passionate about interdisciplinary innovation fueled by technology. Prior to BU, Ziba led a national initiative supporting public sector innovators in cities […]
Ngozi Okidegbe
Ngozi Okidegbe is a Boston University Professor of Law, Michaels Faculty Research Scholar, and Assistant Professor of Computing & Data Sciences—the first dual-appointed professor to the School of Law and the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences. The author of scholarly work at the intersection of Law and Computing Technologies, including Discredited Data (2022), The Democratizing Potential of […]
Allison McDonald
Allison McDonald is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS) at Boston University. Working at the nexus of security, privacy, and human-computer interaction (HCI), McDonald’s research emphasizes how technology impacts digital safety and exacerbates marginalization of often-overlooked groups such as immigrants, activists, and survivors of intimate abuse. To that end, she leverages a […]
Tanima Chatterjee
Tanima Chatterjee is a Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS). As a Clinical Assistant Professor, Tanima’s primary responsibilities revolve around teaching basic competencies and practical skills that are necessary for students to tackle more advanced subjects and pursue applications that require practical knowledge. Tanima […]
Pawel Przytycki
Pawel Przytycki is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS) and a core faculty member in the Bioinformatics Program. Prior to joining BU, Pawel was a Bioinformatics Fellow at the Gladstone Institutes at the University of California, San Francisco. His research is focused on the development of novel computational methods to understand the regulatory effects […]
Azer Bestavros
Azer Bestavros is the inaugural Associate Provost for Computing & Data Sciences appointed in 2019 to oversee the development and launch of the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS) a university-wide tenure-home and degree-granting academic unit focused on broadening BU’s footprint in computational and data-driven research as well as introduce new educational pathways for […]