{"id":16040,"date":"2025-04-17T09:27:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T13:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/?page_id=16040"},"modified":"2026-02-02T15:06:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T20:06:58","slug":"research-news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/research-impact\/research-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Research &#038; Recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"107\" data-end=\"403\">The Faculty of Computing &amp; Data Sciences (CDS) celebrates the outstanding research, publications, and honors of our faculty. Reflecting CDS\u2019s interdisciplinary focus and societal impact, these achievements span AI, cryptography, biomedical data science, environmental modeling, and public policy. Below is a selection of recent milestones, organized chronologically with faculty listed alphabetically within each period.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>January 2026<\/h3>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/yves-atchade\/\">Yves Atchad\u00e9<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Publication: <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.ametsoc.org\/configurable\/content\/journals$002faies$002f5$002f1$002fAIES-D-24-0116.1.xml?t:ac=journals%24002faies%24002f5%24002f1%24002fAIES-D-24-0116.1.xml\">Data-Driven Rainfall Prediction at a Regional Scale: A Case Study with Ghana<\/a><\/li>\n<li>American Meteorological Society, January 2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/elizabeth-a-barnes\/\">Elizabeth Barnes<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Publication: <a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1029\/2025GL117387\">A Deep-Learning Climate Emulator ACE2 Corroborates a Global Decrease in Tropical Cyclone Frequency from 1351 to 1550 Under El Ni\u00f1o-like Sea Surface Temperature Trend<\/a><\/li>\n<li>American Meteorological Society, January 2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"app-researcher-popup__subheading\">November 2025<\/h3>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/kira-goldner\/\">Kira Goldner<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Award: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/2025\/11\/14\/nsf-6-career-awards\/\">National Science Foundation Career Award<\/a><\/li>\n<li>National Science Foundation, November 2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/emily-ryan\/\">Emily Ryan<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Award: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/2025\/10\/24\/emily-ryan-named-duan-family-faculty-fellow\/\">Duan Family Faculty Fellow<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Boston University Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences, 2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/yves-atchade\/\">Yves Atchad\u00e9<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Award: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/2025\/10\/24\/atchade-ryan-duan-family-faculty-fellows\/\">Duan Family Faculty Fellow<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Boston University Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences, 2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/h3>\n<h3 id=\"author-auth-Vijaya_B_-Kolachalama-Aff1-Aff2-Aff5-Aff8\" class=\"app-researcher-popup__subheading\">October 2025<\/h3>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/xuezhou-jack-zhang\/\">Xuezhou (Jack) Zhang<\/a>,\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/profile\/adrian-whitty\/\">Adrian Whitty<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Award: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/funding-grants\/finding-funding\/internal-funding-opportunities\/ignition\/\">Ignition Awards<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Boston University Office of Research, October 2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/pawel\/\">Pawel Przytycki<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Award:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lama2.fr\/nos-projets\"> LAMA 2 France | 2026-2027: Project &#8220;&#8216; Spatial Transcriptomics in Pediatric Human LAMA2 Skeletal Muscle&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>LAMA 2 France, 2026-2027<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/deepti-ghadiyaram\/\">Deepti Ghadiyaram<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Award: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2025\/bu-junior-faculty-career-development-professors\/\">Junior Faculty Career Development Professors<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Boston University Provost, 10\/3\/25<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/sophie-hao\/\">Sophie Hao<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Award: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2025\/bu-junior-faculty-career-development-professors\/\">Junior Faculty Career Development Professors<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Boston University Provost, 10\/3\/25<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/anafisz\/\">Ana Fiszbein<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Publication: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.ado8279\">mRNA initiation and termination are spatially coordinated<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Science, 10\/9\/2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/allison-mcdonald\/\">Allison McDonald<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Publication: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3757496\">Playing &#8216;Google&#8217;s Game&#8217;: How Educational YouTubers Manage Tensions Between Education and Monetization | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Association for Computing Machinery, 10\/16\/2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/h3>\n<h3 id=\"author-auth-Vijaya_B_-Kolachalama-Aff1-Aff2-Aff5-Aff8\" class=\"app-researcher-popup__subheading\">September 2025<\/h3>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/anafisz\/\">Ana Fiszbein<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN\">Publication: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41580-025-00892-7\">Visions of the future of molecular cell biology<\/a>\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN\">Nature, Published 9\/22\/2025<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/archana-venkataraman\/\">Archana Venkataraman<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Award:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/2025\/09\/23\/finding-coherence\/\">$3.2M to Parse and Predict Post-Stroke Aphasia Recovery<\/a><\/li>\n<li>National Institute of Health, 9\/23\/25<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/h3>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"author-auth-Vijaya_B_-Kolachalama-Aff1-Aff2-Aff5-Aff8\" class=\"app-researcher-popup__subheading\">August 2025<\/h3>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/people\/profiles\/daniel-segre\/\">Daniel Segr\u00e8<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN\">Publication: &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/39502364\/\"><span lang=\"EN\">Biophysical metabolic modeling of <\/span><span lang=\"EN\">complex bacterial colony morphology<\/span><\/a><span lang=\"EN\">&#8220;<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Cell, Accepted 8\/20\/25<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5 class=\"app-researcher-popup__subheading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/vijaya-kolachalama\/\">Vijaya B. Kolachalama<\/a>, <a data-test=\"author-name\" data-track=\"click\" data-track-action=\"open author\" data-track-label=\"link\" data-track-index=\"5_7\" data-track-context=\"researcher popup with no profile\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/lingyi-xu\/\" data-author-popup=\"auth-Lingyi-Xu-Aff1-Aff2\" data-author-search=\"Xu, Lingyi\">Lingyi Xu<\/a>, <a data-test=\"author-name\" data-track=\"click\" data-track-action=\"open author\" data-track-label=\"link\" data-track-index=\"2_7\" data-track-context=\"researcher popup with no profile\" data-author-popup=\"auth-Sahana_S_-Kowshik-Aff1-Aff2\" data-author-search=\"Kowshik, Sahana S.\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"popup-auth-Sahana_S_-Kowshik-Aff1-Aff2\" aria-expanded=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/sahana-subramanya-kowshik\/\">Sahana S. Kowshik<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li data-test=\"article-title\">Publication: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-62590-4\">AI-driven fusion of multimodal data for Alzheimer\u2019s disease biomarker assessment<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li data-test=\"article-title\">Nature, Accepted 8\/11\/25<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/h3>\n<h3 data-test=\"article-title\">July 2025<\/h3>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/compbiomed\/people\/faculty\/stefano-monti\/\">Stefano Monti<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Publication: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-88082-5\">\u201cHead and neck tumor organoid grown under simplified media conditions model tumor biology and chemoradiation responses\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span itemprop=\"name\">Nature<\/span><span> NPJ<\/span><span itemprop=\"name\"> Biomedical Innovations, Accepted 7\/7\/25<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/vijaya-kolachalama\/\">Vijaya Kolachalama<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Publication: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s44385-025-00022-0\">&#8220;PodGPT: AI model learns from science podcasts to better answer questions&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span itemprop=\"name\">Nature<\/span><span> NPJ<\/span><span itemprop=\"name\"> Biomedical Innovations, Accepted 7\/7\/25<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/joshua-peterson\/\">Joshua Peterson<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Publication: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-09215-4\">A foundation model to predict and capture human cognition&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Nature, Published 7\/2\/2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/h3>\n<h3 data-test=\"article-title\">June 2025<\/h3>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/pawel\/\">Pawel Przytycki<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Honor: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/2025\/06\/05\/przytycki-named-hariri-institute-junior-faculty-fellow\/\">Named Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/h3>\n<h3 data-test=\"article-title\">April 2025<\/h3>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/joshua-peterson\/\">Joshua Peterson<\/a><\/h5>\n<div role=\"presentation\" class=\"c-message_kit__gutter__right\" data-qa=\"message_content\">\n<div class=\"c-message_kit__blocks c-message_kit__blocks--rich_text\">\n<div class=\"c-message__message_blocks c-message__message_blocks--rich_text\" data-qa=\"message-text\">\n<div class=\"p-block_kit_renderer\" data-qa=\"block-kit-renderer\">\n<div class=\"p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper--first\">\n<div class=\"p-rich_text_block\" dir=\"auto\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p-rich_text_block--no-overflow\">Publication: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2408.07865\">Capturing the complexity of human strategic decision-making with machine learning<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li class=\"p-rich_text_block--no-overflow\">Nature Human Behavior, Accepted 4\/8\/2025<\/li>\n<li class=\"p-rich_text_block--no-overflow\">Publication: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2406.17055\">Large Language Models Assume People are More Rational than We Really are<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<li class=\"p-rich_text_block--no-overflow\">To appear in the conference proceedings of ICLR 2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/h3>\n<h3>March 2025<\/h3>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/mayank-varia\/\">Mayank Varia<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Best Paper Award: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3709025.3712207\">Murmurs of the Silenced: Secure Reporting of Misconduct Settlements<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>CS &amp; Law Symposium, 3\/26\/2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/vijaya-kolachalama\/\">Vijaya Kolachalama<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Publication: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/alz.70032\">Obfuscation via Pitch-Shifting for Balancing Privacy and Diagnostic Utility in Voice-Based Cognitive Assessment<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Alzheimer&#8217;s Association, Alzheimer&#8217;s &amp; Dementia, 3\/14\/2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/bcleary\/\">Brian Cleary<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Publication: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2023.11.30.569494v1\">Simultaneous CRISPR Screening and Spatial Transcriptomics Reveal Intracellular, Intercellular, and Functional Transcriptional Circuits<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Cell Press, 3\/12\/2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/aldo-pacchiano\/\">Aldo Pacchiano<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Publication: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/openreview.net\/forum?id=ybpHHnBf7x\">Pure Exploration with Feedback Graphs<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Pre-print, 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 3\/10\/2025<\/li>\n<li>Publication: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2503.06358\">Language Model Personalization via Reward Factorization<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Pre-print, 3\/8\/2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/h3>\n<h3>February 2025<\/h3>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/robert-a-brown\/\">Robert A. Brown<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Publication: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/issues.org\/compare-research-universities-brown\/\">Don\u2019t Rank Research Universities\u2014Compare Them<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>Issues in Science and Technology, 2\/26\/2025<\/li>\n<li>Opinion: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elsevier.com\/connect\/will-the-american-research-university-make-it-to-its-100th-birthday\">\u201cWill the American Research University Make it to its 100th Birthday?\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Elsevier, 2\/14\/2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/jeffrey-considine\/\">Jeffrey Considine<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Honor: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/2025\/02\/06\/bu-social-scientists-present-at-new-event-that-highlights-microtalks-by-newly-hired-bu-faculty\/\">BU Social Scientists Present at New Event That Highlights \u201cMicrotalks\u201d by Newly Hired BU Faculty<\/a><\/li>\n<li>BU\u2019s Center for Innovation in Social Sciences, 2\/20\/2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/mark-crovella\/\">Mark Crovella<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/wesley-wildman\/\">Wesley Wildman<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Honor: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/2025\/02\/28\/crovella-wildman-named-inaugural-duan-family-faculty-fellows-in-cds\/\">BU\u2019s \u201cChangemakers\u201d: Crovella and Wildman Named Inaugural Duan Family Faculty Fellows in CDS<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Boston University Faculty of Computing &amp; Data Sciences, 2\/28\/2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/pankaj-mehta\/\">Pankaj Mehta<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Publication: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prxlife\/abstract\/10.1103\/PRXLife.3.013010\">Universal Niche Geometry Governs the Response of Ecosystems to Environmental Perturbations<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>American Physical Society, 2\/13\/2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/aldo-pacchiano\/\">Aldo Pacchiano<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Publication: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2502.02516\">Adaptive Exploration for Multi-Reward Multi-Policy Evaluation<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Pre-print, 2\/4\/2025<\/li>\n<li>Publication: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2410.13837\">ORSO: Accelerating Reward Design via Online Reward Selection and Policy Optimization<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Pre-print, The 13th International Conference on Learning Representations, 2\/25\/2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/xuezhou-jack-zhang\/\">Xuezhou Zhang<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Publication: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2502.00666\">Avoiding exp(Rmax) Scaling in RLHF Through Preference-Based Exploration<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Pre-print, 2\/9\/2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/h3>\n<h3>January 2025<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/mark-crovella\/\"><\/a><\/h3>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/people\/profiles\/daniel-segre\/\">Daniel Segr\u00e8<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/mark-crovella\/\">Mark Crovella<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Publication: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell\/fulltext\/S0092-8674(25)00032-7\">Ligand Interaction Landscape of Transcription Factors and Essential Enzymes in E. Coli<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Cell Press, 1\/24\/2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/kira-goldner\/\">Kira Goldner<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Honor: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=2441071\">National Science Foundation CAREER award for Multidimensional Utility Maximization when Ordeals are Payments<\/a><\/li>\n<li>NSF, 1\/15\/2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/huggins\/\">Jonathan Huggins<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Publication: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2501.12212\">Quantitative Error Bounds for Scaling Limits of Stochastic Iterative Algorithms<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Pre-print, 1\/21\/2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/mayank-varia\/\">Mayank Varia<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Publication: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/cic.iacr.org\/p\/1\/4\/3\">Haven++: Batched and Packed Dual-Threshold Asynchronous Complete Secret Sharing with Applications<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>International Association for Cryptologic Research, 1\/13\/2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>2024 Research &amp; Recognition<\/h2>\n<h3>December 2024<\/h3>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/azer-bestavros\/\">Azer Bestavros<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/mayank-varia\/\">Mayank Varia<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Project: Long-term Wage Gap Analysis Project for Boston Women&#8217;s Workforce Council and Massachusetts \u200b\u200bExecutive Office of the Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development<\/li>\n<li>December 2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/georgios-zervas\/\">Georgios Zervas<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Publication: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pubsonline.informs.org\/doi\/10.1287\/mksc.2023.0118\">Learning Product Characteristics and Consumer Preferences from Search Data<\/a>\u201d&lt;<\/li>\n<li>Informs Marketing Science, 12\/10\/2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/h3>\n<h3>November 2024<\/h3>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/jeffrey-considine\/\">Jeffrey Considine<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Publication: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2411.07273\">Compressed Game Solving<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>Preprint, 11\/15\/2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/mark-crovella\/\">Mark Crovella<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Honor: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonsfoundation.org\/2024\/11\/05\/simons-foundation-announces-third-class-of-pivot-fellows\/\">Mentorship for Simons Foundation 2024 Pivot Fellow Robinson Fulweiler<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Simons Foundation, 11\/5\/2024<\/li>\n<li>Publication: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/openreview.net\/forum?id=Cth1PyCwZt\">Beyond Accuracy: Understanding the Performance of LLMs on Exams Designed for Humans<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Preprint, 11\/6\/2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/allison-mcdonald\/\">Allison McDonald<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Publication: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1145\/3686914\">The Sociotechnical Stack: Opportunities for Social Computing Research in Non-consensual Intimate Media<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>Association for Computing Machinery on Human-Computer Interaction, 11\/8\/2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/aldo-pacchiano\/\">Aldo Pacchiano<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Publication: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2402.03282\">A Theoretical Framework for Partially Observed Reward-States in RLHF<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Pre-print, 11\/9\/2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/langdon-white\/\">Langdon White<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Project: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/1angdon\/status\/1857458534474035531\">Development of Linux Foundation Accrediting Academic Computing Programs<\/a> KubeCon 2024, Beta, 11\/20\/2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/h3>\n<h3>October 2024<\/h3>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/mark-crovella\/\">Mark Crovella<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Publication: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2410.00340\">Sparse Attention Decomposition Applied to Circuit Tracing<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>Preprint, 10\/1\/2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/allison-mcdonald\/\">Allison McDonald<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Honor: <a href=\"https:\/\/research.google\/programs-and-events\/google-academic-research-awards\/google-academic-research-award-program-recipients\/\">2024 Google Academic Research Award in Trust and Safety<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Google Research, 10\/3\/2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/pawel\/\">Pawel Przytycki<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Publication: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-08085-6\">Chromatin Remodeling Drives Immune Cell\u2013Fibroblast Communication in Heart Failure<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>Nature, 10\/23\/2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/wesley-wildman\/\">Wesley Wildman<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Publication: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1389945724004672?ref=pdf_download&amp;fr=RR-2&amp;rr=8dade6b82e326ac7\">Nightmares in the Elderly: Associations with Self-Reported Executive Functions<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>Official Journal of the World Sleep Society and International Pediatric Sleep Association, 10\/5\/2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/h3>\n<h3>September 2024<\/h3>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/bcleary\/\">Brian Cleary<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Honor: 2024-25 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/2024\/09\/23\/cds-professor-brian-cleary-awarded-shibulal-family-career-development-professorship\/\">Shibulal Family Career Development Professor in Computing &amp; Data Sciences,<\/a> 09\/25<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/kira-goldner\/\">Kira Goldner<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Honor: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cwi.nl\/en\/groups\/networks-and-optimization\/events\/sagt-2024\/\">Paper Presentations at The 17th International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory<\/a><\/li>\n<li>SAGT Algorithmic Game Theory, 9\/1\/2024<\/li>\n<li>Publication: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-031-71033-9_22\">Non-Adaptive Matroid Prophet Inequalities<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>SAGT Algorithmic Game Theory, 9\/3\/2024<\/li>\n<li>Publication: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1007\/978-3-031-71033-9_18\">To Regulate or Not to Regulate: Using Revenue Maximization Tools to Maximize Consumer Utility<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>Association for Computing Machinery Algorithmic Game Theory, 9\/3\/2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/aldo-pacchiano\/\">Aldo Pacchiano<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Publication: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2409.16197\">Second Order Bounds for Contextual Bandits with Function Approximation<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0 Preprint, 9\/24\/2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/h3>\n<h3>August 2024<\/h3>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/mark-crovella\/\">Mark Crovella<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Publication: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/10621147\">An Elemental Decomposition of DNS Name-to-IP Graphs<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>IEEE 2024 Annual Joint Conference, 8\/12\/2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/huggins\/\">Jonathan Huggins<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Grant: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=2406258\">\u201cUsing NEON and Other Network Data to Anchor a Continental Multi-Scale Carbon Cycle Assimilation and Forecast<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>U.S. National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology, 8\/1\/2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/mayank-varia\/\">Mayank Varia<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Publication: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usenix.org\/conference\/usenixsecurity24\/presentation\/little\">Secure Account Recovery for a Privacy-Preserving Web Service<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>Symposium on Edge Computing 33rd USENIX Conference on Security Symposium, 8\/14\/2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/xuezhou-jack-zhang\/\">Xuezhou Zhang<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Publication: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2408.10381\">Efficient Reinforcement Learning in Probabilistic Reward Machines<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Pre-print, 8\/19\/2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/h3>\n<h3>July 2024<\/h3>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/huggins\/\">Jonathan Huggins<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Publication: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/jmlr.org\/papers\/v25\/22-0327.html\">A Framework for Improving the Reliability of Black-box Variational Inference<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Journal of Machine Learning Research, 7\/2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/h3>\n<h3>June 2024<\/h3>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/vijaya-kolachalama\/\">Vijaya Kolachalama<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Publication: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/alz.13886\">Prediction of Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease Progression within Six Years Using Speech: a Novel Approach Leveraging Language Models<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>Alzheimer\u2019s Association, 6\/25\/2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/h3>\n<h3>May 2024<\/h3>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/okidegbe\/\">Ngozi Okidegbe<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Publication: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.luminosoa.org\/site\/books\/e\/10.1525\/luminos.190\/\">Feminist Cyberlaw Ch. 16; Revisioning Algorithms as a Black Feminist Project<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>University of California Press Feminist Cyberlaw, 5\/28\/2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/h3>\n<h3>April 2024<\/h3>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/mark-crovella\/\">Mark Crovella<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Grant: <a href=\"https:\/\/nairrpilot.org\/projects\/awarded?_requestNumber=NAIRR240038\">National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot Project Award Towards Mechanistic Audits of LLMs<\/a><\/li>\n<li>National Science Foundation (NSF) and Department of Energy, 4\/20\/2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/h3>\n<h3>March 2024<\/h3>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/okidegbe\/\">Ngozi Okidegbe<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Publication: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4755540\">The Outsiders Of Algorithmic Governance<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Preprint, 3\/11\/2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/wesley-wildman\/\">Wesley Wildman<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Publication: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/2153599X.2024.2305447\">Dataset of Integrated Measures of Religion (DIM-R). 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