SPRING 2014 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE Stefano Monti (Computational Biomedicine, School of Medicine) The proposed project is aimed at integrating multiple genomic data types (primarily, gene expression and high-throughput “cell painting”) to develop predictive models of chemical carcinogenicity based on network reconstruction and differential analysis approaches, toward the identification of a chemical’s mechanism(s) of cancer induction. […]
SPRING 2014 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE Douglas Densmore (Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering) This project is investigating the creation of a complete computational microfluidic design ecosystem, which a software workflow to decompose specific Models of Computation (MoCs) such as data flow, process networks, finite state machines, and synchronous reactive models into primitive biological components that […]
SPRING 2014 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES Luis Carvalho (Mathematics & Statistics, College of Arts and Sciences) and Dino Christenson (Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences) The main research goal is to investigate a fully novel statistical methodology to model networks and infer communities using innovative computational methods that formally address these issues in large networks […]
SPRING 2014 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES Jason Bohland (Health Services, Sargent College) and David Somers (Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences) The overall goal of this project is to develop, test and validate computational methods for defining canonical brain networks and for identifying them in individual brains. Although Professors Bohland and Somers have known each other […]
Sam Ling was selected as an Institute Junior Faculty Fellow beginning in fall 2015. He is an assistant professor in Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University. Dr. Ling directs the Visual Neuroscience lab, which aims to understand how the human visual system optimizes itself for the task at hand. Towards that end, his research […]
Kirill Korolev was selected as an Institute Junior Faculty Fellow in fall 2015. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Graduate Program in Bioinformatics at BU, which he joined in 2013. After receiving his PhD in theoretical physics from Harvard University in 2010, he spent three years at the Massachusetts Institute […]
Leila Agha is an assistant professor in the Markets, Public Policy, and Law Department at the BU Questrom School of Business. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2011. She is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research focuses on technology and […]
Nachiketa Sahoo was selected as an Institute Junior Faculty Fellow in fall 2012. He joined the Information Systems Department in the Questrom School of Business in July 2011. His research includes applying machine learning techniques to problems in social science. For example, how should recommendation systems (such as for books or movies) handle changing preferences among the customers? […]
Sharon Goldberg was selected as an Institute Junior Faculty Fellow in fall 2012. She joined BU’s Department of Computer Science in 2010. Her research focuses on the security and privacy of computer networks, by combining formal techniques from cryptography and game theory with empirical network data and large-scale simulations. She has served on working groups of the […]
Douglas Densmore was selected as an Institute Junior Faculty Fellow in fall 2012. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. He was awarded his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2007. Originally interested in programming video games, Professor Densmore discovered an interest in microprocessor design, leading to his expertise […]