{"id":19166,"date":"2025-12-15T14:01:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T19:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/?p=19166"},"modified":"2026-01-21T19:01:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:01:40","slug":"ai-statewide-progress-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/2025\/12\/15\/ai-statewide-progress-event\/","title":{"rendered":"CCDS Hosts Experts and State Officials for Event on AI Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cds-faculty\/files\/2025\/12\/Azer-Bestavros-AI-Event.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of audience listening to Azer Bestavros, BU Faculty of Computing &amp; Data Sciences Associate Provost\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-19167 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/files\/2025\/12\/Azer-Bestavros-AI-Event.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/files\/2025\/12\/Azer-Bestavros-AI-Event-636x425.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/files\/2025\/12\/Azer-Bestavros-AI-Event-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/files\/2025\/12\/Azer-Bestavros-AI-Event-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/files\/2025\/12\/Azer-Bestavros-AI-Event-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/files\/2025\/12\/Azer-Bestavros-AI-Event-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/>Excerpt from BU Today | By: BU Today Staff | December 15, 2025 | Photo: Cydney Scott<\/p>\n<p>As AI\u2019s role in local, national, and global economies continues to expand, Massachusetts\u2014a leading technology innovator, thanks in large part to its density of higher education institutions\u2014is becoming a key player in artificial intelligence development.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, December 12, Boston University\u2019s Duan Family Center for Computing &amp; Data Sciences hosted an event highlighting just how much AI work is happening across the state\u2014and the leading role BU\u2019s Faculty of Computing &amp; Data Sciences is playing. The event was held on the building\u2019s 17th floor, with views overlooking the Charles River and the Boston skyline.<\/p>\n<p>The Massachusetts AI Hub, created to scale the state\u2019s AI initiatives, is at the nexus of everything, with Sabrina Mansur as its inaugural director. The Massachusetts Technology Collaborative\u2014which supports the hub and is led by CEO Carolyn Kirk\u2014is also leading the charge. BU has partnered with the Innovation Institute at MassTech on various projects, including the Robotics &amp; Autonomous Systems Teaching and Innovation Center and the New England Research Cloud.<\/p>\n<p>A research panel was established, featuring faculty from Boston University, Harvard, MIT, Northeastern, UMass, and Yale. At Friday\u2019s event, a representative from each school participated in a lightning round of presentations, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/profile\/azer-bestavros\/\">Azer Bestavros<\/a>, BU associate provost for computing and data sciences and William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, representing BU.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2025\/ai-progress\/?\" class=\"button-primary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At an recent event focused on AI work across the state, AI experts came together at CCDS to discuss the future and of AI and its potential for positive impact. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18839,"featured_media":19167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,465,17,35],"tags":[34,377,27,691],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18839"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19168,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19166\/revisions\/19168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}