Ran Canetti and Mayank Varia, Co-Directors of the Center for Reliable Information Systems & Cyber Security (RISCS) and past Hariri Institute fellow, Ari Trachtenberg, have teamed up with researchers from MIT and other universities to develop an app that uses Bluetooth-enabled cell phones to notify a person if they have come into proximity with someone […]
Assistant Professor Jennifer Balakrishnan has been given the honor of a 2020 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award. An assistant professor at Boston University’s Department of Mathematics & Statistics and a Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow, Jennifer is known for leading a team that solved the “cursed curve,” a Diophantine equation that was “famously difficult” before her […]
AIR Seminar Series Talk 1: “D-RISE” Deep neural networks are being used increasingly to automate data analysis and decision making, yet their decision-making process is largely unclear and is difficult to explain to the end-users. Vitali Petsiuk, Ph.D Student, Computer Science, Boston University Talk 2: “Tracking with NL-RPN” A novel natural language region proposal network (NL-RPN) […]
Recently former Hariri Institute for Computing research fellow, Dr. Elaine Nsoesie, was quoted in an article published by The Hill titled “Social Distancing Works, But Resistance Prompts Worries of Growing Crisis.” The article features the opinions of health officials and infectious disease experts on the implications of social distancing as a measure to control COVID-19. It also […]
Hariri Institute for Computing’s Research and Junior Faculty Fellow, Mahesh Karra has been recently featured in BU Today. The article announces the launch of his survey focused on learning about COVID-19 and social distancing behaviors of the national population. Mahesh Karra has partnered up with Dr. David E. Bloom, Dr. David Canning, and Rashmi Dayalu to […]
This week three BU Hariri Institute for Computing researchers were highlighted in an article in Silicon, a UK-based tech publisher. Mayank Varia (Research Associate Professor of Computer Science and Co-Director of RISCS), Ran Canetti (Professor of Computer Science and Director of RISCS), and Ari Tractenberg (Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Cyber Alliance member) […]
As we transition to a virtual environment, the Hariri Institute is committed to bringing together researchers and faculty in an effort to maintain an engaged community. This spring, we look forward to hosting virtual seminars and events. As a staff, we have been trained to organize, host, and execute virtual seminars and workshops of all […]
This past March, the Honda Research Institute led an information session covering their special track offered as part of the Hariri Institute’s Research Incubation Awards. The talk was given to a full seminar room at the Hariri Institute for Computing as BU faculty members were given some insights into their proposal ideas. Explicitly, in their […]
Recently two research teams with researchers from BU, UC Berkeley, MIT, Microsoft Research, and Caltech were recognized with a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Award. Both projects are part of the DARPA SIEVE program whose mission is to make pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies for national security. The first project, which is for $4M […]
AIR Distinguished Speaker Series Speaker: Evan Shelhamer, Research Scientist at Adobe, Visiting Researcher at MIT When: Monday, April 6, 2020 Time: 11:00am-12:30pm ZOOM Info: https://bostonu.zoom.us/j/815792639?pwd=cWxMNG1FbytWQzB6ZE5EbWtVbmR2QT09 Meeting ID: 815 792 639 Password: 457178 Abstract: The visual world is vast and varied, but there is nevertheless ubiquitous structure. In this talk, I will focus on incorporating locality and scale structure into […]