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Aldo Pacchiano will join the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS) at Boston University as an assistant professor starting in the Fall of 2024, following a one-year appointment as a adjunct assistant professor in CDS as he completes a postdoctoral fellowship at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are excited with the prospect of Aldo joining us! He brings to CDS extensive research experience in critical topics such as reinforcement learning, online learning, bandits, and algorithmic fairness. Our students will benefit from his impressive depth and breadth of knowledge and his ability to contextualize complex concepts,\u201d said Azer Bestavros<\/a>, Associate Provost for CDS.<\/p>\n Pacchiano\u2019s background includes a position as a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research NYC, a lab that focuses on answering big data questions and shedding light on human behavior online. Pacchiano\u2019s publications reflect the potential for turning theoretical understanding into practical applications that can assist the scientific and larger communities.<\/p>\n He values the work already being done at CDS and anticipates areas where he can add contributions. \u201cI am really looking forward to being part of a vibrant and growing research community,\u201d he said. \u201cI am particularly excited about having the chance to be part of the faculty that will shape the future of CDS and the many collaboration opportunities that I am certain will arise in my journey as a faculty here.\u201d<\/p>\n Pacchiano, who will hold an adjunct visiting appointment in CDS while working at the Broad Institute during the 2023\/24 academic year, will start as a tenure-track assistant professor at CDS starting next year. He is already outlining ambitious goals for when he joins the university.\u00a0 \u201cMy main objective is to help BU and CDS be recognized as a leader in theoretical and applied reinforcement learning research,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n In his spare time, Pacchiano enjoys flexing his creative muscle by writing short stories in both English and Spanish.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Read about Aldo Pacchiano, BU Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences Assistant Professor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18026,"featured_media":11368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9270"}],"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\/18026"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9270"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11376,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9270\/revisions\/11376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}