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New Healthcare AI Model Facilitates Personalized Medical Treatment of Hypertension
Model helps match people with high blood pressure to the medication most likely to work for them—and could improve trust in healthcare AI By Maureen Stanton for The Brink High blood pressure is a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke, two leading causes of death in the U.S, and it is on the […]
Calling a Timeout: Improving College Coaches’ Mental Health and Wellbeing
How do coaches view and overcome adversity? Research being conducted by Hariri Institute Graduate Student Fellow Olivia Wyatt explores these issues and their impact on the mental health of college coaches. BY BRENDAN GALVIN An undergraduate at Tufts University in 2013, Oliva Wyatt began her studies in baseball analytics. However, a social psychology professor quickly changed […]
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 […]
Announcing Hariri Institute Fellows and Focused Research Program Awards
13 Fellows and Four Focused Research Programs Awarded The Hariri Institute of Computing is pleased to announce our 2023 Fellows and 2024 Focused Research Program (FRP) award recipients. The Institute has awarded six Junior Faculty Fellows and seven Graduate Student Fellows, representing early-career faculty and exemplary doctoral students who are pursuing innovative computationally-driven research with […]
Advancing Assistive Technologies with AI
By Zoe Tseng For someone who is visually impaired, navigating an unfamiliar street can be challenging. Even going straight can be tough in an open space. Encountering obstacles, stairs, and intersections can potentially result in an unsafe situation. While aids, such as white canes or guide dogs are helpful, they can’t exactly tell someone who […]
Six Hariri Institute Affiliates Promoted to Full Professor
BY HARIRI INSTITUTE STAFF Recognized as Leaders in Their Fields & Classrooms Six faculty affiliated with the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering have been promoted to the rank of full professor at Boston University. They were among 24 faculty from the Charles River Campus who were promoted this week […]
Estimating the Improbable with PhD Student Zack Bezemek
By Maureen Stanton and Zoe Tseng Could oil price volatility cause a stock market plunge? What’s the risk factor of a new drug causing a seizure? How likely is it that a driverless car could crash into a bus? What’s common among these seemingly disparate topics is that they are “rare events” – low-probability incidents […]
What’s behind Boom of Christianity in China?
The Brink reports on this fascinating research, initiated with incubation funding from Hariri Institute. Theology scholars and a global network of researchers are using big data to map religion’s history in China and explain its rapid growth. Over the past four decades, Christianity has grown faster in China than anywhere else in the world. Daryl […]
2023 Red Hat Collaboratory Research Incubation Awards Recipients
The Boston University (BU) Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering: Red Hat Collaboratory is excited to announce the 2023 recipients of the Red Hat Collaboratory Research Incubation Award! The Red Hat Collaboratory is an innovative partnership between Boston University and Red Hat aimed at advancing research in the areas of […]
Hariri Faculty Affiliate Carol Neidle Receives NSF Convergence Accelerator Award
Hariri Faculty Affiliate Carol Neidle received a grant through the NSF Convergence Accelerator program: https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/initiatives/convergence-accelerator (2022 Cohort, Phase I, Track H: Enhancing Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities). This is a collaboration with Principal Investigators Dimitris Metaxas of Rutgers University and Matt Huenerfauth of Rochester Institute of Technology. As part of NSF’s commitment to accelerating use-inspired solutions for persons with disabilities, these researchers were […]