MechE Students Work With Alum to Bring AI-Driven Product to Market
What does it take to design an aesthetically sleek AI-driven product with mass market appeal? Three MechE MS students, Ben Wheeler (ENG ’25), Nick Teguis (ENG ’25), and Tage Colberg (ENG ’25) got into the depths of this question over the Spring 2025 term. Working with Alumni Samuel (ShengEr) Zhou (CAS & QST’ 22) and […]
BU Launches an Open-Source Infectious Diseases Monitoring Tool Powered by AI and Human Experts
From measles, to influenza, to mpox, to malaria—infectious diseases outbreaks are happening all over the world, at nearly all times. For health professionals and public health officials, staying up-to-date with pathogens that are particularly dangerous—or have the potential to become a pandemic, like COVID-19 did—is vitally important to help keep us all safe. But accessing real-time information on outbreaks, as they pop up around the globe, isn’t always simple; currently, much of it is aggregated by hand.