Announcing Hariri Institute Fellows and Focused Research Program Awards
14 Fellows and 5 Focused Research Programs Awarded
The Hariri Institute of Computing is pleased to announce our 2024 Fellows and 2025 Focused Research Program (FRP) award recipients.
The Institute has awarded 8 Junior Faculty Fellows and 6 Graduate Student Fellows, representing early-career faculty and exemplary 1st and 2nd year PhD students who are pursuing innovative computationally-driven research with the potential for high impact. Our 2024 cohort of fellows represents a variety of colleges and schools across Boston University. They are applying computational methods and tools to address complex challenges in diverse fields including astronomy, biostatistics, economics, engineering, neuroscience, political science, sociology, statistical modeling, and speech, language & hearing sciences.
Our 2024 Junior Faculty Fellows are:
- Dillon Brout, Astronomy, CAS
- Jacob Brown, Political Science, CAS
- James Chapman, Mechanical Engineering, ENG
- Huimin Cheng, Biostatistics, SPH
- Kimberly Crespo, Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences, SAR
- Brian DePasquale, Biomedical Engineering, ENG
- Masao Fukui, Economics, CAS
- Charlene Ong, Neurology, Chobanian and Avedesian School of Medicine
Our 2024 Graduate Student Fellows are:
- Fatih Acun, Electrical and Computer Engineering, ENG
- Sarah Bald, Bioinformatics, Interdisciplinary
- Taylor Beauvais, Sociology, GRS
- Xinyi Hu, Algorithmic and Statistical Modeling, Machine Learning, CDS
- Masha Lazou, Biomedical Engineering, ENG
- Ryan Senne, Neuroscience, GPN
Learn more about our 2024 Hariri Institute Fellows.
2025 Focused Research Program Awards
The Hariri Institute for Computing’s FRP programs support intensive, faculty-driven efforts in large, multi-disciplinary teams. The FRP mission is to evolve and advance Boston University’s research in computing, computational, and data-driven science and engineering around areas of strategic importance and emerging opportunity.
The Institute awarded five 2025 Focused Research Program awards that aim to solve complex problems in healthcare, natural disasters, high-performance computing, and autonomous self-driving labs for accelerating scientific discovery.
Our 2025 Focused Research Programs:
AI for Understanding Earthquakes
Sponsor: Hariri Institute for Computing
Privacy Preserving Energy Analytics for Data Centers
Sponsors: Hariri Institute for Computing and the Center for Reliable Information Systems & Cyber Security (RISCS)
From Self-Driving Labs to Community-Driven Labs
Sponsor: Hariri Institute for Computing
Enhancing Models for Breast Cancer Risk Prediction and Bias Mitigation through Clinician AI Collaboration
Co-sponsors: Boston University School of Public Health Population Health Data Science Program, the Clinical and Translational Science Institute, the Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research, and the Digital Health Initiative at the Hariri Institute for Computing
Multimodal Transformer Architectures for Neuropathology Study of Alzheimer’s Disease
Co-sponsors: Boston University School of Public Health Population Health Data Science Program, the Clinical and Translational Science Institute, the Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research, and the Digital Health Initiative at the Hariri Institute for Computing
Learn more about the 2025 Focused Research Programs here.
The Hariri Institute for Computing is committed to supporting and empowering our community of scholars to advance our collective knowledge. Learn more about opportunities and the work of the Hariri Institute Fellows and Focused Research Programs.