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by Mia Knežević, CISE Staff How does your DoorDash order get to your doorstep so quickly? Jinglong Zhao, Assistant Professor of Operations and Technology Management at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business — and faculty affiliate of both the Center for Information & Systems Engineering (CISE) and the Hariri Institute — has some answers. Zhao’s […]
Lei Tian, associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, a Hariri Institute Faculty Affiliate, and a CISE Faculty Affiliate, was awarded the 2025 Boston University Provost’s Scholar-Teacher of the Year Award. In an announcement from Dr. Gloria Waters, University Provost and Chief Academic Officer, the award “recognizes outstanding scholars who excel as teachers inside and […]
BY HARIRI INSTITUTE STAFF Recognized as Leaders in Their Fields & Classrooms Eight 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 23 faculty from the Charles River Campus who were promoted recently in […]
By Maureen L. Stanton Infectious diseases are emerging and re-emerging at an unprecedented rate, with profound impacts on global health. In just the first three months of 2025, the U.S. recorded as many measles deaths as it did in the previous 24 years combined. New zoonotic diseases, naturally transmissible between humans and animals, continue to […]
Discoveries could transform how we learn, recover, and model language By Maureen L. Stanton Are words arbitrary? For centuries, scientists believed that words are essentially random sounds that are given meaning. For example, there’s nothing about the sound of the word “dog” that tells you what it means—it’s just something we’ve learned. Following this logic, […]
By Maria Yaitanes Today, Boston University launched the Artificial Intelligence Development Accelerator (AIDA) Initiative. Hariri Institute Director Yannis Paschalidis, Distinguished Professor (ECE, SE, BME) of Engineering and Founding Professor of Computing & Data Sciences, and Hariri Institute Faculty Affiliate, John Byers, Professor of Computer Science and Former Senior Associate Dean of the Faculty for Mathematical […]
By Maureen L. Stanton Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow Eshed Ohn-Bar has received the Boston University College of Engineering (ENG) Early Career Research Excellence Award for 2025. Ohn-Bar, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, leads the Human-to-Everything (H2X) Lab at BU, which develops intelligent technologies with robust autonomy and real-time assistance capabilities. His research […]
By Maria Yaitanes On January 27, the floors of New England houses, offices, and universities shook for about 20 seconds. Some thought it was a large truck driving outside. Others felt the tremors and knew something greater was at hand: a 3.8 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Maine. Local social media pages and forums […]
Junior Faculty Fellow Spotlight: James Chapman, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering By Alex Grzybowski High-entropy alloys (HEAs) have major applications to the world of materials science. These alloys contain roughly equal amounts of five or more different elements with different crystal structures, which allows the materials to have increased strength, hardness, wear resistance, thermal stability, and […]
Unlocks Potential for Space and Fusion Research By Maureen L. Stanton Plasma physics plays a critical role in a wide array of scientific and technological fields, from understanding the Sun and other stars to predicting space weather, advancing fusion energy, and exploring cosmic phenomena like black holes and neutron stars. However, accurately simulating plasma behavior […]