Category: Events

A Look Back at 2020 BU Data Science (BUDS) Day

Thank you for attending the 5th Annual BU Data Science (BUDS) Day. We are proud to have brought together such an amazing group of data science researchers from BU and beyond, and we’re grateful that you chose to spend your time with us. Below are some of our favorite photos and videos from the day. […]

Eric Kolaczyk Only the Third BU Faculty to be Awarded the “Mosteller Statistician of the Year”

On Moving ‘Practice’ to the Center of Statistics (Mosteller Award Talk) Speaker: Eric Kolaczyk, Director, Hariri Institute for Computing When: Monday, February 10, 2020 at 6:00pm (Social: 6:00pm, Dinner: 6:30pm, Presentation: 7:15pm)  Where: The Hillel House Castle Room (top floor), 213 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215 EVENT REGISTRATION Please join us in congratulating Eric Kolaczyk, Director […]

Sanaz Mobasseri Gives Talk about Gender and Emotional Contagion in the Workplace

Recently, BU Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations, Questrom, and Hariri Institute for Computing Junior Faculty Fellow, Sanaz Mobasseri gave a talk on her research titled “Is Susceptibility to Emotional Contagion Gendered? Sometimes.” This talk is part of the Wed@Hariri Talk Series where Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellows share their research with the Hariri Institute and Boston University communities. […]

Emotional Accommodation: Women and the Give-and-Take of Emotions in the Workplace

Wed@Hariri: Meet Our Fellows Series Speaker: Sanaz Mobasseri, Assistant Professor, Management and Organizations, QST When: Wednesday, January 29, 2019 2:45pm – 4:00pm (Networking and refreshments 2:45pm – 3:00pm, talk 3:00pm – 4:00pm, reception to follow)  Where: Questrom Building, 595 Commonwealth Ave, HAR 410 Boston, MA EVENT REGISTRATION Abstract: Conflict between gendered social expectations and conceptions of […]

New Data from Old Sources: A Machine Learning Approach to Census Record Linking

Wed@Hariri: Meet Our Fellows Series Speaker: James Feigenbaum, Assistant Professor, Economics, College of Arts & Sciences When: Wednesday, January 21, 2019 3:15pm – 5:00pm (Networking and refreshments 3:15pm – 3:40pm in Room 416, talk 3:45pm – 4:30pm in Room 315, reception to follow)  Where: Economics Building, 270 Bay State Road, Boston, MA EVENT REGISTRATION   […]

Computational Methods to Measure and Mitigate Weaponized Online Information

Wed@Hariri: Meet Our Fellows Series Gianluca Stringhini, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, ENG When: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 Networking and refreshments 3:30pm-3:45pm, talk 3:45pm-5:00pm Where: Photonics Building, 8 St. Mary’s Street, Room PHO 339 Abstract: The Web has redefined the way in which malicious activities such as online harassment, disinformation, and radicalization are carried out. To […]

Leveraging High-Resource Languages to Improve Low-Resource Language Processing

2019 BU Linguistics Colloquium Series Gina-Anne Levow, Associate Professor, Linguistics, University of Washington. When: Monday, November 25, 2019 4:00pm-5:00pm Where: Hariri Institute for Computing, Seminar Room MCS 157, 111 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA Abstract: Recent years have seen dramatic strides in automatic speech and language processing, ranging from automatic speech recognition to machine translation. While these advances […]

“Machine Learning: New Challenges and Connections”

AIR Distinguished Speaker Series Maria-Florina Balcan, Assoc. Prof., Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon Univ. When: Monday, December 2, 2019 10:30am-11:00am networking and reception, 11:00am-12:00pm talk Where: Kilachand Center, 610 Commonwealth Ave, Colloquium Room 101 ABSTRACT: Over the past decades, machine learning has evolved into a highly successful discipline that has significantly influenced several fields, including vision, information […]

Wen Li Gives Talk about Electron Dynamics within Earth’s Radiation Belt

Yesterday, Wen Li, BU Assistant Professor of Astronomy and Hariri Institute for Computing Junior Faculty Fellow, gave a talk on her research titled “Quantitative Assessment of Earth’s Radiation Belt Electron Dynamics Using Physics-Based and Machine-Learning Approaches.” This talk is part of the Wed@Hariri Talk Series where Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellows share their research with the Hariri Institute and Boston University communities. […]

The Computational Design of Soft Flowing Materials

Center for Computational Science (CCS) Lunch Seminar Sauro Succi, Visiting Professor in Computational Science, Institute for Computing Applications, Harvard University When: Thursday, November 21, 2019 11:45 am – 12:00 pm (lunch) 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm (talk) Where: Physics Research Building, Room PRB595, 3 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA   Abstract: In this talk we willl present recent […]