Institute news and updates
Junior Faculty Fellow Battles With Android’s Malicious Malware
By Hariri Institute Staff An analysis done on more than a million samples of Android malware prove how malicious apps are developing malware coding that is hard to trace and identify. Despite in-depth research, malware in Android is still a major concern. The biggest challenge that researchers face is dealing with repackaged malware. Gianluca Stringhini, […]
MGHPCC Article Highlights Mass Open Cloud Research on COVID-19
The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) made an announcement last month of allowing outside researchers to access it’s high speed computing systems to facilitate the process of resolution of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. The blog gives a brief overview on the computing capacity of the state-of-the-art infrastructure that MGHPCC has. It also talks about […]
Vijaya Kolachalama’s Algorithm Makes Advancements In Alzheimer’s Detection
Different people have different symptoms, and so it is hard to get a precise diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. It is even harder to predict the likelihood of an individual afflicting the disease. Vijaya Kolachalama, an Assistant Professor at Boston University School of Medicine and Junior Faculty Fellow and Research Fellow at the Hariri Insititute for Computing, was featured […]
Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow Jennifer Balakrishnan Honored with NSF CAREER Award
Assistant Professor Jennifer Balakrishnan has been given the honor of a 2020 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award. An assistant professor at Boston University’s Department of Mathematics & Statistics and a Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow, Jennifer is known for leading a team that solved the “cursed curve,” a Diophantine equation that was “famously difficult” before her […]
Elaine Nsoesie Shares Her Insights on Social Distancing
Recently former Hariri Institute for Computing research fellow, Dr. Elaine Nsoesie, was quoted in an article published by The Hill titled “Social Distancing Works, But Resistance Prompts Worries of Growing Crisis.” The article features the opinions of health officials and infectious disease experts on the implications of social distancing as a measure to control COVID-19. It also […]
UK-Based Tech Publisher Highlights Three Hariri Institute Researchers for Their Work Fighting COVID-19
This week three BU Hariri Institute for Computing researchers were highlighted in an article in Silicon, a UK-based tech publisher. Mayank Varia (Research Associate Professor of Computer Science and Co-Director of RISCS), Ran Canetti (Professor of Computer Science and Director of RISCS), and Ari Tractenberg (Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Cyber Alliance member) […]
Virtual Seminars Come to the Institute
As we transition to a virtual environment, the Hariri Institute is committed to bringing together researchers and faculty in an effort to maintain an engaged community. This spring, we look forward to hosting virtual seminars and events. As a staff, we have been trained to organize, host, and execute virtual seminars and workshops of all […]
Honda Research Institute Holds Info Session for Funding Proposals
This past March, the Honda Research Institute led an information session covering their special track offered as part of the Hariri Institute’s Research Incubation Awards. The talk was given to a full seminar room at the Hariri Institute for Computing as BU faculty members were given some insights into their proposal ideas. Explicitly, in their […]
BU RISCS Researchers Win Two Grants from DARPA
Recently two research teams with researchers from BU, UC Berkeley, MIT, Microsoft Research, and Caltech were recognized with a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Award. Both projects are part of the DARPA SIEVE program whose mission is to make pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies for national security. The first project, which is for $4M […]
Red Hat VP Chris Wright Speaks at the 2020 Open Cloud Workshop
About the Speaker Chris Wright, the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Red Hat, was the Keynote Speaker at the 2020 Open Cloud Workshop, held this past March at the George Sherman Union on the campus of Boston University. Chris’s responsibilities at Red Hat include incubating emerging technologies and developing forward-looking perspectives on […]