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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 […]
By Chloe Wojtanik, Hariri Institute for Computing Hariri Faculty Affiliate Rabia Yazicigil has been recognized with two prestigious awards: the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award and an Early Career Excellence in Research Award from the BU College of Engineering. Yazicigil is an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering (ECE) and biomedical […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Chloe Wojtanik, Hariri Institute for Computing Boston University’s Hariri Institute for Computing is pleased to welcome two new faculty affiliates: Eran Tromer, professor in the department of computer science at College of Arts and Sciences, and at Questrom School of Business, and Tianyu Wang, assistant professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering […]
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 […]
By Alex Grzybowski With an estimated 27.6 million victims of forced labor worldwide, human trafficking is a huge and growing problem. It’s also difficult to trace. Human trafficking can happen anywhere to anyone. Victims can be U.S. Citizens or foreign nationals, young or old, any gender, and occur in both legal and illegal industries. The […]
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 […]
An autonomous robot cut the ceremonial ribbon at the March 4 grand opening of Boston University’s Robotics & Autonomous Systems Teaching & Innovation Center (RASTIC). / Photo by Natalie Williams By Maureen Stanton An autonomous robot cut the ceremonial ribbon at the grand opening of Boston University’s $8.8 million Robotics & Autonomous Systems Teaching and Innovation Center (RASTIC). […]