Hariri Institute Welcomes New Faculty Affiliates
Boston University’s Hariri Institute for Computing is pleased to welcome four new faculty affiliates: Emiliano Dall’Anese, PhD, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering; Janet Freilich, JD, professor of law; Najoung Kim, PhD, assistant professor of linguistics; and Ching-Ti Liu, professor of biostatistics. Learn more about our new affiliates below.
Emiliano Dall’Anese, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Information Engineering from the University of Padova, Italy, in 2011. He was a Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Minnesota from 2011 to 2014. His general research interests are centered around optimization, control, and learning in complex, cyber-physical and network systems. He seeks to develop foundational theories, methods, and algorithms that enable the deployment of efficient, safe, and autonomous decision-making architectures to address engineering and societal challenges.
Janet Freilich, JD, is a Professor of Law. She writes and teaches in the areas of patent law, intellectual property, information law, and civil procedure. She has published or has articles forthcoming in Science, the Review of Statistics and Economics, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, and others. Freilich was previously a professor at Fordham Law School where she received the Fordham Law Dean’s Distinguished Research Award. She has also received the Samsung-Stanford Patent Prize, the Irving Oberman Memorial Award in Intellectual Property, and the Cloud Based Research Computing Project Award.
Najoung Kim, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics and an affiliated faculty in the Department of Computer Science at Boston University. She obtained her PhD in Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to joining Boston University, she was a Faculty Fellow in the Center for Data Science at New York University. Her research is at the intersection of Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science, and her research interests broadly concern meaning and generalization in human and machine learners.
Ching-Ti Liu, PhD, is a Professor of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health. His research interest mainly focuses on the development of statistical and computational approaches for genetics/genomics and bioinformatics studies. He also collaborates as a statistician or statistical geneticist on projects studying complex diseases such as diabetes, obesity, musculoskeletal disorder, and cancer. He has more than 10-year experience working on Framingham Heart Study (FHS) as a biostatistician collaborating on various projects. Dr. Liu has also functioned as a collaborator on traditional epidemiological, biomedical or basic science research beyond FHS. In addition, he has been actively engaged in several international collaborative consortia for the analysis of genetics and genomics data.
The Hariri Faculty Affiliate Program is open to all BU faculty members pursuing research projects, or leading teaching or training initiatives in computing or computational sciences. To learn more about the program and how to apply, visit https://www.bu.edu/hic/how-to-get-involved/for-faculty/faculty-affiliates/.