Call for FRP Proposals and Fellowship Nominations

Learn about Hariri Institute’s funding opportunities designed to advance high-impact multidisciplinary research and recognize outstanding early-career faculty and doctoral students.

Seeking to evolve your research?

Submit your proposal for a Focused Research Program.

Pre-proposals due by February 14, 2025.
Proposals due by March 25, 2025.

The Hariri Institute for Computing’s Focused Research Programs (FRPs) 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. These programs are designed to facilitate research convergence by providing ‘scaffolding’ for groups to coalesce in sustainable ways, with the goal of accelerating research for future funding and broader impact. The Institute expects to fund Focused Research Programs at the level of $100,000 per program, for one year of support.

All pre-proposals are encouraged to reach out to the Director of Hariri Institute, Yannis Paschalidis (yannisp@bu.edu) to discuss your project ideas before submitting your FRP pre-proposal.

Fellowships

Nominations due by March 6, 2025.

To recognize and support the development of outstanding early-career faculty and doctoral students, Hariri Institute funds junior faculty fellowships and graduate student fellowships. 

Junior Faculty Fellows Program

The Hariri Institute for Computing’s Junior Faculty Fellows program aims to both recognize outstanding early-career computing and data-driven researchers at Boston University and support their continued development by connecting them with one another and with the Institute community at large through various mechanisms and activities.

Since 2011, the Institute has awarded 85 Junior Faculty Fellows across 29  departments and eight colleges. From social sciences, humanities, law, business, and medicine to engineering, computer science, and statistics, the Junior Faculty Fellows Program is committed to enabling and supporting a community of researchers across schools and colleges at BU. Junior Faculty Fellows receive a $10,000 award to advance their computational and data science research at Boston University.

Graduate Student Fellows Program

The Hariri Institute for Computing’s Graduate Student Fellows program recognizes outstanding PhD students who are pursuing computing and data-driven research at Boston University. Continuing PhD students, in the 1st or 2nd year of their program, are eligible to be nominated for this honor (awarded, in turn, at the start of their 2nd or 3rd year, respectively). Since 2017, the Institute has awarded 55 Graduate Student Fellows. Graduate Student Fellows receive a $5,000 Academic Enhancement Award to support and promote the student’s research experience at Boston University