The Hariri Institute is excited to announce our next set of Focused Research Programs (FRPs)! These programs are designed to evolve and advance Boston University’s research in computing and data science around areas of strategic importance and emerging opportunity. The Institute facilitates research convergence for these programs by providing support and ‘scaffolding’ for groups to […]
The Hariri Institute is excited to announce our latest cohort of Junior Faculty Fellows and Graduate Student Fellows! These fellows are using computational tools to answer research questions in law, biostatistics, astronomy, engineering, social work, economics, marketing, and more. The Institute supports these computing and data-driven researchers by contributing to their research developments and connecting […]
Researcher shares how to identify, address, and prevent the spread of misinformation online. BY GINA MANTICA Health misinformation spread rapidly on social media at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Misinformation online varied widely, ranging from conspiracy theories about the connection between COVID-19 and 5G to falsehoods about killing the novel coronavirus by drinking bleach. […]
BY GINA MANTICA Sub-Saharan African countries have a large unmet demand for family planning and reproductive health services compared to Western or Asian countries. But the volume of information given by counselors during family planning sessions can make it challenging for women to make an informed decision about their contraceptive use. Changing the structure of […]
BY GINA MANTICA Robots navigate around a room thanks to cameras and algorithms that help them process images. But, as a robot starts moving around, so does the camera’s field of view. To control a robot’s movements and prevent it from crashing into objects, it needs to excel at change detection – or the process […]
Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a global health problem. Almost half the adults over the age of 75 have some form of knee OA—one of the leading causes of disability worldwide. Because there is no cure for knee OA, current treatment relies on accurately identifying and staging the disease. Using an Artificial Intelligence-based approach known as […]
BY: NATALIE GOLD Sanaz Mobasseri has a wealth of business experience, a talent for research, and a drive for studying cultural dynamics that reproduce systemic inequalities. Today, she interweaves her expertise to create antiracist workplaces through her interdisciplinary research on organizational inequalities. Before Mobasseri was a Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow and an Assistant Professor […]
BY: GINA MANTICA Reliable reviews on digital marketplaces are hard to come by. Many reviews are biased, and honest ones are difficult to incentivize. These “reputation systems” on digital marketplaces provide customers with information that help guide their future purchases, and therefore need to reflect transactions accurately. During graduate school, Andrey Fradkin became a part-time […]
BY: GINA MANTICA In today’s virtual world, equal access to online resources is more important than ever before. But online texts aren’t available in all 7,000 languages, and most machine translation programs are limited to Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and several European languages. Researchers from Boston University and Institut Teknologi Bandung developed an innovative method to […]
Census data is hugely consequential, determining how electoral district boundaries are redrawn and how many Congressional representatives each state gets. The 2020 Census uses differential privacy to protect personal information, but some states have opposed the change because the method will affect redistricting. A group of data privacy experts, including three researchers from the Hariri […]