BU and Red Hat Research Win Best Paper Award at ISQED
“AutoAnnotate: Reinforcement-learning-based code annotation for high-level synthesis,” a paper resulting from a project at the Red Hat Collaboratory at Boston University, was selected as one of four Best Papers at the 25th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED’24). The authors are Boston University alumna Hafsah Shahzad (PhD, ECE, 2024) and Professor Martin Herbordt (ECE), […]
Hariri Institute Faculty Affililates Awarded CTSI Pilot Grant Awards
By Maureen Stanton Boston University Clinical and Translational Institute (CTSI) announced its 2024 Integrated Pilot Award winners, which included six faculty affiliated with Hariri Institute. Ten projects were awarded this year, two of which will be led by affiliates Tom Ranzani , assistant professor, engineering (ME, MSE, BME) and Sheila Russo, assistant professor, engineering (ME, […]
Hariri Institute Affiliates Catherine Espaillat and Traci Hong Promoted to Full Professor
Recognized as Leaders in Their Fields & Classrooms Professors Catherine Espaillat and Traci Hong have been promoted to full professor at Boston University. They were among 22 faculty from the Charles River Campus who were promoted to the rank of full professor in an announcement by President Kenneth Freeman and Provost Kenneth Lutchen. “The individuals […]
Hariri Faculty Affiliates Siddarth Ramachandran (ENG) Daniel Segrè Elected AAAS Fellows
By Angela Chiang Distinguished Professor of Engineering Siddharth Ramachandran and Professor of Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Physics Daniel Segrè have been elected to the 2023 class of The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows, a distinguished lifetime honor within the scientific community. “As we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the AAAS Fellows Program, AAAS is proud […]
Announcing the 2024 AI and Education Initiative Awards
Four Faculty Research Grants and Four Graduate Student Fellows Awarded The AI and Education Initiative is pleased to announce the recipients of its Faculty Research Grants and Doctoral Fellowships. These two funding programs were launched to support evolving research efforts at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and education at Boston University. Join us as we celebrate and recognize the […]
NERC’s Affordable Cloud Service now Powered by High-performance GPUs
NERC delivers powerful GPU-driven services at up to half the cost of public cloud on pay-as-you-go basis By Alex Grzybowski The New England Research Cloud (NERC), operated by the Mass Open Cloud (MOC) Alliance at Hariri Institute, has recently installed 64 NVIDIA A100 GPUs (in 16 liquid cooled servers) in its data center through an agreement […]
Boston University Releases the BU AI Task Force Report
The Boston University Provost Office released the Boston University AI Task Force Report on April 11, 2024. The comprehensive report is the work of a university-wide task force appointed by the Provost Office last fall and led by Yannis Paschalidis, Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Director of the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and […]
Vivek Goyal Named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow
The award recognizes Goyal’s groundbreaking work in computational imaging, and many contributions to the fields of signal processing and information science By Maureen Stanton Vivek K Goyal, a Boston University engineering professor, author, and inventor, has been named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow. Now in its 99th year, Guggenheim Fellowships are conferred to individuals who have […]
Boston University’s Cara Stepp Named AIMBE Fellow
Stepp recognized for extraordinary achievement in the field of medical and biological engineering By Maureen Stanton Hariri Faculty Affiliate Cara Stepp (SAR, ENG) has been inducted into the 2024 Class of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows. Election to the AIMBE College of Fellows is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to […]
BU ENG Researcher Wenchao Li Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award
By Maureen Stanton Wenchao Li, an ENG assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering with affiliate appointments in systems engineering and computer science, has won a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Li’s research sits at the intersection of formal methods and machine learning, with a focus on […]