Hariri Faculty Affiliate Carol Neidle received an NSF award through the NSF Convergence Accelerator program. This is a collaboration with Principal Investigators Dimitris Metaxas and Mariapaola D’Imperio of Rutgers University and Matt Huenerfauth of Rochester Institute of Technology. These researchers were awarded almost $1 million, with the money going towards the development of “Data & AI Methods for Modeling Facial Expressions in Language with Applications to Privacy […]
On Thursday, October 1st, the Hariri Institute introduced the newly appointed Fall 2020 Junior Faculty Fellows and Graduate Student Fellows. The twelve new fellows represent various disciplines from across different Boston University schools and colleges. The Institute is excited to engage with these new fellows as they reach new heights in their research, both here […]
Last week, Professor Dr. Juergen Gall led a talk about the aspects of video understanding. He began speaking about holistic video understanding, where a video can be categorized by the activity as well as other tags that can describe scenes or attributes of video. He goes on to describe a multi-stage temporal convolutional network, which […]
It’s that time of year again! BU Alumni Weekend ‘Reimagined’ 2020 is coming up and as part of virtual Alumni Weekend, Associate Professor of Computer Science Kate Saenko is giving this year’s lecture on “Overcoming Dataset Bias in Artificial Intelligence.” The annual Gerald and Deanne Gitner Family College of Arts & Sciences Lecture is designed […]
We are thrilled to announce that our 2020 Junior Faculty Fellow, Emma Lejeune just received the David R. Dalton Career Development Professorship. Emma is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the College of Engineering. She received her doctorate and master’s in civil and environmental engineering from Stanford University and her bachelor’s degree from Cornell […]
Over the past a few months, universities have been trying their best to provide a normal experience for students in light of a global pandemic. Eric Kolaczyk, the Director of the Hariri Institute, has been working alongside researchers on campus to develop mathematical and computational model of BU’s campus to guide the University’s reopening plan […]
Red Hat Research Days US 2020 are a series of virtual conversations about research and innovations in open source. An initiative organized by Red Hat, and open to researchers, developers, students, and others (with no-cost registration), Research Days provide researchers, technologists, and students an opportunity to collectively discuss research developments that have the potential to […]
The Hariri Institute for Computing is proud to announce that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a large number of faculty associated with the Institute the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award. Being one of the most prestigious awards for junior researchers and data scientists in the nation, the NSF CAREER Award looks […]
The federal data strategy is used by the Federal Government to create a 10-year vision on how to accelerate the use of data to support their mission, promote democracy and serve the public while using security measures to protect privacy and confidentiality. The federal data strategy focuses on establishing an integrated data infrastructure with data […]
A team of researchers from the Artificial Intelligence & Emerging Media (AIEM), which is housed in the Hariri Institute for Computing and is part of the Artificial Intelligence (AIR) Initiative, is studying how media outlets from different countries are covering the COVID-19 pandemic. In an article published recently in BU The Brink, Lei Guo, Assistant Professor of Communication and […]