By Maeve Smillie Despite a 44% increase in drug development investment over the past decade, the pharmaceutical pipeline has slowed, yielding fewer new drugs at greater cost, with only limited efficacy. As the industry grapples with this paradox, the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing’s hosted the AI for Drug Discovery Open Innovation Forum on […]
BY ALEX JOHNSON On October 18 the Hariri Institute hosted a virtual symposium on AI in Healthcare: Mitigating Disparities, Biases, and Misinformation, co-sponsored by the Center for Information & Systems Engineering, the School of Public Health, and the College of Communication Division of Emerging Media Studies. This event brought together all different kinds of experts, from […]
BY GINA MANTICA The impact of public health interventions on a population can be difficult to test through real-life experiments, due to the amount of time it takes to implement new policies and evaluate their effects. But simulation models enable researchers to create and implement public health interventions in a virtual setting so they can […]
Real-time health data collected from cell phones could be used to promote healthy eating and exercise, detect cognitive decline, or prevent low blood sugar. But it can be difficult to analyze such large amounts of mobile health data, and researchers have to consider the privacy protections for patient data in their analyses. Faculty members in […]
BY: DEIRDRE SHAHAR Machine learning is an application of artificial intelligence (AI) that provides systems with the ability to automatically learn and improve from experience without being programmed by humans. With the expanding use of high throughput computations and experiments, chemical and materials scientists can use the developments in machine learning and data sciences to propel […]
BY: NATALIE GOLD When you open your phone with facial recognition or notice suggested products on your social media accounts, that is artificial intelligence (AI) at work. Though AI is useful and can help complete a variety of tasks that usually require human intelligence, it is also laced with problems of inequality and bias. BU’s […]
The Hariri Institute Graduate Student Fellows have organized a “Atypical PhD journeys in computing and data science” panel discussion on December 3rd, 11:00am – 1:00pm. The panel led by 2018 Hariri Institute Graduate Student Fellows Quang-Thinh Ha and Shrabasstee Banerjee will dive deep into the unique paths of well-accomplished professionals in the field of computing […]
On Thursday, November 19th, Katia Bulekova, Manager of Scientific Programming and Applications at Boston University’s Information Services and Technology (IS&T), will be presenting on organizing software workflow with Github at this week’s “Did You Know You Could…?” Series talk. The series provides a venue in which people can quickly get exposed to practical topics either […]
The Hariri Institute Graduate Student Fellows have developed a “Did You Know You Could…?” Series. The series provides a venue in which people can quickly get exposed to practical topics enabled by computing and data science. This coming Friday, November 13th, Derry Wijaya, Hariri Institute Research Fellow and Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer […]
The course of clinical trials research has been impacted to varying extents by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Hariri Institute for Computing, Department of Biostatistics (SPH), the Statistics Program, and Department of Mathematics and Statistics (CAS) at Boston University have organized an event where BU Statistic faculty will have the opportunity to comment on various implications […]