Former Institute Junior Faculty Fellow Mark Kramer, Associate Professor in Mathematical Neuroscience at BU College of Arts and Sciences, has won a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for his work in better understanding the brain mechanisms that drives seizure in people with epilepsy. He is the third member of the College of Arts & Sciences […]
Ksenia Bravaya has been selected as an Institute Junior Faculty Fellow beginning in fall 2014. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at BU, which she joined in 2013. Professor Bravaya received her Ph.D. in Theoretical and Computational Quantum Chemistry from the Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2008. Professor Bravaya’s research aims […]
Boston University (BU) students displayed novel “Smart Cities” apps in the “DevNet Zone for IoT,” hosted by Cisco at its annual Cisco Live! event held in San Diego on June 10-11. The BU apps provide visualizations of mobile device positions on interactive maps of both indoor facilities and aerial/satellite imagery by combining signals acquired from disparate “things” including Bluetooth low energy (BLE) beacons, Internet routers, and GPS. Students who contributed […]
In an article featured on BU Today, Sandro Galea, Dean of Boston University’s School of Public Health and a professor of epidemiology, examines the health of Boston through public transportation. Although statistics might suggest that Boston is a healthy city, a paragon of urban health by having some of the highest life expectancy of any US city […]
In her video “Internet Insecurity”, Sharon Goldberg, Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Boston University College of Arts and Sciences, breaks down Border Gateway Protocol which she describes as “the glue that holds the internet together”. The video is picked up and featured on Science360.gov. Watch the video here.
Douglas Densmore, Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow, Associate Professor at Boston University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, launched the Nona Research Foundation about a year ago as a 510(c)3 non-profit. Nona Research Foundation, Inc. (“NRF”) aims to help research using their software and other tools achieve advances and improvement in health and healthcare, energy production and storage, materials manufacture, protection of […]
The “three-napkins protocol,” officially known as the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), was intended to be a quick fix, but it still governs how long-haul traffic flows through cyberspace. Yakov Rekhter and Kirk Lougheed created the Border Gateway Protocol in January 1989. While they were sketching their plan on three napkins for routing data across the […]
Emily Ryan has been selected as an Institute Junior Faculty Fellow beginning in fall 2014. Emily is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Division of Materials Science and Engineering at Boston University. She received her Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2009, where her dissertation research focused on […]
Gustavo Schwenkler has been selected as an Institute Junior Faculty Fellow beginning in fall 2014. Gustavo, assistant professor of Finance, received his PhD in management science and engineering in 2013 from Stanford University and his diploma in applied mathematics and economics from the University of Cologne. His research focuses on the development of statistical and computational tools for the […]
BU Today highlights Sharon Goldberg, Hariri Institute for Computing Junior Fellow and CAS Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who explains how information makes its way around the internet, securely and insecurely. Goldberg partners with Leonid Reyzin, a CAS Professor of Computer Science, and director of RISCS at the Hariri Institute, to address how a flaw […]