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Student Spotlight

CDS Alum Osama Dabbousi Named Rhodes Scholar

in Alumni, Awards, CDS News, In the News, Student Spotlight

Read about CDS alum Osama Dabbousi, and his recent achievement in receiving the prestigious Rhodes scholarship.

Tagged: Alumni, Awards, CDS, data science

CDS Student Voices & Inspirations: One Word’25

in CDS News, Impact, Q&A, Student Spotlight

Students of the BU Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences share what CDS means to them and how they would sum up CDS in just one word.

Tagged: data science, social impact, Student Life

CDS Data Science Major Xiang Fu ’26 Earns Prestigious Provost’s Scholars Award for Academic Exploration

in Student Spotlight

Read about Xiang Fu ’26, a data science major in the BU Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS), who received a Provost’s Scholars Award for Academic Exploration.

Tagged: Azer Bestavros, Leonidas Kontothanassis, Maureen McCarthy, Provost Scholar, Toni Fitzgerald, Xiang Fu

CDS Students Launch Co-ed Technology Fraternity

in Impact, Profiles, Student Spotlight

Read about the co-ed fraternity launched by BU data science students.

Tagged: CDS, co-ed fraternity, data science, Kappa Theta Pi, Maureen McCarthy, Paul Lee, Toni Fitzgerald, Tye Robison

Photo Essay: My Spring 2024 Semester at CDS

in Events, POV, Student Events, Student Spotlight, Views & Voices

CDS Reflections: Isabella Boncser (SAR’26’28) has a passion for photography. That passion brought her to the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences at Boston University where she worked as a student photographer. Check out her best and brightest.

Tagged: BU Spark!, CDS, Events, photography, Pictures, Student Life, Student Spotlight

BU Today: Cloud Computing Platform CloudWeaver Wins at Spring 2024 Spark! Demo Day

in CDS News, Civic Tech, Events, Impact, In the News, Spark! News, Student Spotlight

The Spring 2024 BU Spark! Demo Day and Experiential Learning Expo showcased a variety of impactful student projects. Read more about the student team that won the event’s Innovation Award!

Tagged: BU Spark!, CDS, civic tech, data science, undergraduate

CDS Spring Fling Reflections & Inspirations from Emma Steel

in Events, POV, Student Events, Student Spotlight, Views & Voices

Read about the CDS Student Government’s first annual Spring Fling in April 2024.

Tagged: CDS, CDS Student Government

CDS Student Voices & Inspirations: One Word’24

in CDS News, Impact, Q&A, Student Spotlight

Hear from the students of the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences as they share what CDS means to them and how they would sum up CDS in just one word.

Tagged: AI, Artificial Intelligence, civic tech, data science, data sciences, undergraduate

CDS Student Joshua Kim Named Innovate@BU’s First-Year Innovation Fellow

in Student Spotlight

Joshua Kim, a first-year Data Science student at CDS, has been named one of Innovate@BU’s 2023-24 First-Year Innovation Fellows [FYIF]. The Fellowship program is designed to support and uplift first-year students who want to turn their ideas into action for real-world impact. Read more.

Tagged: Innovate@BU, Joshua Kim

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CDS Professor Libby Barnes Applies AI to Climate Models of the Future

March 6, 2026

Read about Professor Libby Barnes' and her research group's work in the application of artificial intelligence to Earth science and making climate predictions.

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CDS Faculty Fellow Brian DePasquale Wins Esteemed Sloan Research Fellowship

February 17, 2026

Read about CDS Faculty Fellow Brian DePasquale's research project developing AI models of how human brains perceive odors, securing a 2026 Sloan Research Fellowship.

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Joshua Peterson Leads DARPA-Funded Study on AI Trust

February 2, 2026

CDS Assistant Professor Joshua Peterson leads project developing a scalable “Trust Score” to predict how and when people will rely on AI decision-makers across different domains - read more about it here!

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