Institute Steering Committee member Barbara Shinn-Cunningham’s research is pushing the limit of understanding how our brains make sense of sound. After receiving a grant from Harvard Medical School grant for $100,000 in 2015, she’s spent the last year exploring “hidden hear loss,” the trouble many people with “normal” hearing have deciphering competing, overlapping sounds, such […]
Sarah Zheng is a PhD candidate in the Operations and Technology Management department at BU’s Questrom School of Business. She received a bachelors in economics from Peking University, China and a masters in economics from BU. Sarah’s research focuses on the intersection of operations management and data analytics to create and design more efficient systems […]
Institute Steering Committee Member and former Junior Faculty Fellow, Dino Christenson, spoke with BU Today about the current presidential election, specifically about what sets this race apart from previous elections. Christenson, who studies American electoral behavior, presidential campaigns, campaign media coverage, noted two crucial differences between this election and all others: the efficacy of the […]
Friday, November 4, 2016 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Hariri Institute for Computing 111 Cummington Mall, Room 180 The Hariri Institute for Computing will be hosting Frank Pasquale (Professor of Law, University of Maryland) for a Data Science Initiative (DSI) Colloquium hosted in collaboration with the Center for Reliable Information Systems & Cyber Security (RISCS) and BU/MIT Technology & Cyberlaw Clinic. Professor Pasquale’s research […]
The Hariri Institute for Computing is pleased to recognize the Institute’s 2016-2017 Steering Committee members. As a cornerstone of one of Boston University’s strategic areas of research, the Hariri Institute for Computing and its Steering Committee (SC) play a critical role in strengthening the broad BU computing and data-driven community of scholars. The Institute is excited to […]
Jonathan Hersh, a member of the Institute’s first-ever Graduate Student Fellows cohort, has drawn national attention for his dissertation and recent work with the World Bank. The dissertation, titled “Poverty in HD: What Does High Resolution Satellite Imagery Reveal about Economic Welfare?”, uses data from Sri Lanka to “investigate the ability of features derived from high spatial […]
Azer Bestavros, Hariri Institute Founding Director and Professor of Computer Science, will be a panelist at “The Cities of Tomorrow: How Research and Innovation Can Help Address the U.S. Infrastructure Crises” event, to be held in Washington, D.C. on October 27th. Hosted by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), the event will discuss research and innovation that […]
The Hariri Institute for Computing is pleased to bring to the attention of BU faculty the Fall 2016 Call for Hariri Institute Research Award proposals. The deadline for proposals is Tuesday, November 15, 2016, 5pm. The Hariri Institute is committed to catalyzing interdisciplinary research that utilizes computing, computational and data-driven approaches by engaging a community of researchers across schools […]
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM on Wednesday, October 26, 2016 Refreshments & networking at 2:45 PM Hariri Institute for Computing 111 Cummington Mall, Room 180 This fall, the Hariri Institute for Computing is launching a redesigned “Meet Our Fellows” series that will showcase the Institute’s 2016 Junior Faculty Fellows as well as the inaugural cohort of Hariri […]
Hariri Institute Steering Committee member and professor of computer science, Margrit Betke, and Institute Affiliate and associate dean, Stan Sclaroff (CS), have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation’s program on Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies, a group dedicated to advancing how people learn in technology-rich environments. The project will build on previous NSF […]