2024 Red Hat Collaboratory Research Incubation Award Recipients
By Ken Rudolph, Hariri Institute The Red Hat Collaboratory at Boston University has announced the recipients of its 2024 Research Incubation Awards. Twelve new and renewed research projects received nearly $2 million in funding to support research in topics ranging from reconfigurable hardware to homomorphic encryption, energy efficiency, and training models for autonomous vehicles. This […]
Environmental Ecologist Lucy Hutyra Wins a 2023 MacArthur “Genius Grant”
By Maureen Stanton, Hariri Institute for Computing Lucy Hutyra, CAS Professor of Earth and Environment and Hariri Institute Core Faculty, was named a 2023 MacArthur Fellow—one of the most prestigious awards to individuals pursuing a range of intellectual and creative interests with global perspective. She is one of 20 fellows to receive the award, commonly known […]
Hariri Institute publishes FY23 Annual Report
By Hariri Institute Staff The Hariri Institute is pleased to announce the release of our FY23 Annual Report! The report highlights the many significant and impactful accomplishments of our multidisciplinary community, consisting of 400 faculty affiliates and including thought leaders, problem solvers, scholars, and pioneers. They are leveraging the full power of computing, computational, and […]
Tweets, Ads, and Lies: Researchers Are Fighting against Climate Misinformation
Scientists have known for decades that the continued use of fossil fuels, like gas, oil, and coal, is the primary reason for the climate crisis. Global temperatures are soaring due to excessive greenhouse gas emissions, but with urgent, systemic actions, there is still time to make a difference. But how do we ensure people get […]
New Focused Research Programs Tackle Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing, and Climate Misinformation
MEDIA CONTACT: Gina Mantica, Assistant Director of Marketing & Communications, gmantica@bu.edu The Hariri Institute is excited to announce our next set of Focused Research Programs (FRPs)! These programs are designed to evolve and advance Boston University’s research in computing and data science around areas of strategic importance and emerging opportunity. The Institute facilitates research convergence […]
Can understanding social needs help researchers predict COVID-19 outcomes?
Focused Research Program faculty members develop a predictive model for hospitalizations, disease severity, and death using dynamic vital signs and social determinants of health. BY GINA MANTICA Models that predict how COVID-19 affects patients are often biased due to the disproportionate effects of the disease on people of color in the United States. But researchers […]
Byte by byte: Using data science to study human behavior
BY: ALEX JOHNSON A popular thought experiment pushes people to consider the ethics of redirecting a trolley to hit a single person that is at the wrong place at the wrong time in order to avoid hitting five workers that the trolley is barreling toward. This puzzle has been debated for decades, but now researchers […]
Focused Research Program Faculty Member Uses Computational Models to Design Better Batteries
BY GINA MANTICA Every time you plug in your cell phone, tiny lithium ions travel back to the battery’s surface and give it the charge, or energy, that it needs to power on. But if the battery’s surface isn’t perfectly flat, spiky growths of metal called dendrites can form and decrease the battery’s efficiency or […]
Focused Research Program Faculty Member Awarded NIH Funding to Tackle Childhood Health Disparities
BY GINA MANTICA One of the greatest unmet childhood healthcare needs in the United States is preventable. Early Childhood Caries is the occurrence of tooth decay in children younger than six years of age and disproportionately affects kids from disadvantaged backgrounds. But there are population dynamics at work that affect parents’ and caregivers’ health behaviors, […]
Focused Research Program Faculty Member Awarded Funding from The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation
BY GINA MANTICA When you take medicine, the drug moves its way through your body until it attaches to parts of proteins that are capable of achieving the drug’s desired effect. But figuring out which part of a protein a drug should target can be challenging: one small mutation in a protein can cause a […]