Nathan Jones to Lead National Center for Special Education Research
By Hariri Institute Staff Nathan Jones, a Hariri Faculty Affiliate and Associate Professor of Special Education and Educational Policy at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development, has been appointed to lead the Institute of Education Sciences’ (IES) National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER). Jones’s term as commissioner of NCSER began August […]
Paschalidis and Wildman to Co-chair Newly Established BU AI Task Force
Faculty experts from across the University are charged with developing best practices and assessing potential problems By Joel Brown, The Brink Boston University has created an AI Task Force to assess both the potential and the pitfalls of generative artificial intelligence and define sensible pathways for the use of the transformative technology on campus. […]
BU Interdisciplinary Team Wins DOE Grant for Biopreparedness Research
By Chloe Patel, Hariri Institute for Computing Boston University researchers affiliated with the Hariri Institute, College of Engineering, and School of Public Health, have received a subaward from a $12 million U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) grant awarded to a coalition of DOE National Laboratories led by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). This funding, […]
Why do 90% of people afflicted with Parkinson’s develop speech and voice impairments?
Cara Stepp and colleagues win a $3.5M NIH grant to uncover the causes By Maureen Stanton, Hariri Institute for Computing Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the fastest growing neurological disease, with 10 million people affected worldwide. It is a progressive, degenerative brain condition that affects the nervous system and a person’s control of their body movement. […]
Hariri Faculty Affiliates Lou Awad and Roberto Tron team up to aid post-stroke recovery
By Emily Tan With adults age 65 and older forming the United States’ fastest-growing population segment, more Americans are bound to experience severe and complex health conditions. To meet the needs of the country’s graying population, the current health care system must rethink its existing treatment approaches for older patients. Roberto Tron, a Hariri Institute […]
Reflecting On One Year of MPOX Response Event Highlights
Story by BU Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (CEID) CEID hosted a hybrid event, “Reflecting on One Year of MPOX Response,” in partnership with BU’s Hariri Institute for Computational Sciences & Engineering on August 17th. The panel discussion, which was moderated by CEID Director, Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, featured opening remarks from Dr. Ashish Jha, Dean […]
Research in AI for Automotive and Distributed Systems Wins Recognition
By Hariri Institute Staff Papers from two projects which previously received Red Hat Collaboratory awards have been recognized for excellence at preeminent research conferences. Scalable distributed systems “SREP: out-of-band sync of transaction pools for large-scale blockchains” won the Best Paper award at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC). The conference itself […]
Demystifying AI to Mitigate its Negative Consequences
Shlomi Hod (BU PhD candidate, CS) Leads Congressional Workshop on Legal, Ethical, and Societal Implications of Artificial Intelligence By Margaret Stanton, Hariri Institute for Computing The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has given pause due to rising concerns about privacy, bias, safety, and security. While many systems have been lauded for their positive impact, such […]
Chuanfei Dong Receives DOE Early Career Research Award
Hariri Institute Faculty Affiliate Chuanfei Dong is working to untangle the mysteries of plasma, and his efforts were recently recognized with a prestigious award from the US Department of Energy (DOE). Dong, an Assistant Professor of Astronomy at the College of Arts & Sciences at Boston University, is among 93 scientists selected by the DOE for […]
BU Dark Matter Researcher Wins Award to Drive “Extraordinary Contributions” to Experimental Physics
Dark matter might be one of the most important substances in the universe—the glue that stops stars flying away from each other and ripping galaxies apart. It’s also one of the most mysterious. It’s proven so stubbornly hard to see that researchers can only guess at its existence. Boston University physicist and Hariri Institute faculty […]