{"id":140914,"date":"2023-06-07T15:14:12","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T19:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/?p=140914"},"modified":"2025-07-03T11:05:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T15:05:02","slug":"hariri-happenings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/2023\/06\/07\/hariri-happenings\/","title":{"rendered":"Hariri Happenings"},"content":{"rendered":"

by A.J. Kleber<\/em><\/p>\n

Almost a year after the appointment of <\/span>Professor Ioannis Paschalidis<\/span><\/a> as director of the <\/span>Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering<\/span><\/a>, the long-standing collaborative bond between the Institute and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has never been more evident. The vitality of this partnership is reflected in ECE\u2019s strong showing in this year\u2019s <\/span>Fellows & Focused Research Program Awards<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Annually, the Hariri Institute taps a small group of junior faculty and doctoral students for their cohort of fellows, a program intended to provide promising scholars of computing and data science with support and opportunities designed to foster their potential.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Professor Kayhan Batmanghelich<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Assistant Professor <\/span>Kayhan Batmanghelich<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>one of the newest members of the ECE faculty<\/span><\/a>, has received a 2023 Junior Faculty Fellow appointment. Batmanghelich\u2019s research aligns well with Hariri\u2019s mission, with its substantial focus on utilizing machine learning to develop applications and methodologies for healthcare. His work to date has been aimed towards addressing lung diseases and neurodegenerative disorders.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Zeying Zhu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

ECE PhD student <\/span>Zeying Zhu<\/span><\/a> has been named a\u00a0 2023 Graduate Student Fellow. She numbers among just a handful of graduate students across the College and broader University to be selected, based on her innovative and potentially impactful research into software-based telemetry solutions for high-volume network traffic in software network functions and microservices. Zhu, whose research interests encompass monitoring systems and robust algorithms for data analysis, is advised by <\/span>Professor Alan Liu<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Hariri Institute\u2019s Focused Research Program Awards are designed to support significant faculty-driven team projects with an emphasis on convergent specialties and \u201careas of strategic importance and emerging opportunity.\u201d They provide a launching pad for larger interdisciplinary efforts which may garner additional future funding as they grow and evolve. Each FRP is organized around a series of research \u201cthrusts,\u201d working towards the larger project goals. ECE faculty are involved in leadership roles in three of the four FRPs to receive funding for 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Professor Alexander Olshevsky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Eshed Ohn-Bar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Professors <\/span>Eshed Ohn-Bar<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Alexander Olshevsky<\/span><\/a> will spearhead \u201cOptimal Bio-Inspired Design of Holistic Rehabilitation Systems,\u201d a project focused on the development of bio-inspired robotics for broad mobility assistance, aimed both at patient rehabilitation and longer-term accessibility for the physically disabled.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Professor Joshua Semeter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Professor Prakash Ishwar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Professors <\/span>Joshua Semeter<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Prakash Ishwar<\/span><\/a> will contribute to \u201cFirst Trip to Mars: How to Pack Light\u201d as thrust leaders. They will be focused on modeling the potential impact of the Martian ionosphere on navigation systems, as part of the project\u2019s broader purpose: to provide support for NASA\u2019s efforts towards a manned mission to Mars.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Professor David Boas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Back down on Earth, Professor Ishwar will also co-lead a portion of \u201cNovel data science and AI approaches for Brain Health and Brain Disease,\u201d which is co-sponsored by Hariri, the School of Public Health, and the Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI). Professor Ishwar\u2019s focus will be on \u201cDigital Health.\u201d <\/span>Professor David Boas<\/span><\/a> will lead another thrust, \u201cContinuous Brain Monitoring.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The vitality of the partnership between the Hariri Institute and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is reflected in ECE\u2019s strong showing in this year\u2019s Fellows & Focused Research Program Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18241,"featured_media":140913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[236,1163,1057,325,287,977,978,240,975,907,1162,1166,1137,1147],"tags":[1018,512,1022,833,752,793,1021,1019,372,1020,421,948,376,756,958],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140914"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164660,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140914\/revisions\/164660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}