Boston University is pleased to announce the BU Digital Health Initiative, a new collaboration between the Institute for Health System Innovation & Policy and the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering. The BU Digital Health Initiative seeks to advance progress in health and healthcare by supporting research projects and convening a university-wide, multi-disciplinary community of researchers, practitioners, and students.
Recognizing that both the quality and potential impact of research are increasingly dependent on the development of high-grade software artifacts, the Institute launched SAIL to provide researchers with professional software development capacity in support of projects that require cutting-edge software artifacts and solutions. SAIL’s success over the past year and a half has been remarkable, with accomplishments including the completion of 22 software and application development projects with over $350K of funding, reflecting collaborations with more than 60 faculty members from across 12 schools and 23 departments.
The Hariri Institute for Computing’s new website is designed to profile sponsored and incubated research projects, promote the work and achievements of Institute affiliates and fellows, and provide access to the range of resources the Institute offers. Take a moment to explore the new site and learn about everything that’s going on at the Institute – we’re constantly pursuing new funding opportunities, developing unique resources, hosting exciting events and exploring new initiatives.
Ziba Cranmer joined the Hariri Institute for Computing in December, 2016 as the Director for a newly created initiative, BU Spark. BU Spark is an exciting venture that will create a supportive community for student-centered entrepreneurship in computing as well as a suite of programs, activities, resources, and networks to help and empower students to pursue next-stage development of their ideas, concepts, and creations for innovative computing and data-driven technology.Coming up on her one month anniversary at BU, she shared her insights on where BU Spark is headed and what to look forward to this semester.
Mayor Martin J. Walsh and the Boston Women’s Workforce Council (BWWC) released a first-of-its-kind gender wage gap report in early January, while at the same time announcing a new partnership that would move the BWWC to the Hariri Institute for Computing. BU Today covered the work of the BWWC and Hariri Institute in developing a secure, multi-party computation platform to analyze propriety payroll data from numerous Boston area companies:
“Virus writers and virus software creators are in a continually escalating arms race, and the bad guys are winning.” This is how Mark Reynolds, research scientist and former Hariri Institute Fellow, describes the environment that security experts encounter while trying to protect our computers and data. Reynolds and fellow BU researchers take a different approach in their work and have secured a patent design virus detection software.
The Institute is pleased to announce the recipients of this round of Hariri Research Award funding. Nine teams, working on a spectrum of projects from record linkage to refugee assistance and human neuroimaging research, will be supported through Institute seed funding. Many of the teams will also be working with software engineers at the Institute’s Software & Application Innovation Lab to realize the results of their research.
The Hariri Institute for Computing is pleased to announce the appointment of Mayank Varia as co-director of BU’s Center for Reliable Information Systems and Cyber Security (RISCS). In this capacity he will continue to work with researchers at BU and beyond on a range of security and privacy research projects and initiatives.
Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source enterprise software, and BU’s Cloud Computing Initiative (CCI), part of the Hariri Institute for Computing, are pleased to announce a new partnership aimed at advancing research into emerging and translational technologies, such as cloud computing and big data platforms. Red Hat is investing $5 million in a five-year partnership that will create the Red Hat Emerging Technologies Lab at Boston University (RHET Lab @BU).
Meet Our Fellows/Research Preview:Jonathan Hersh, Hariri Graduate Fellow, Hariri Institute for Computing; PhD candidate, Economics (CAS)
Meet Our Fellows/Junior Faculty Fellow Presentation: Large-Scale Computation for Materials Science
Sahara Sharifzadeh, Junior Faculty Fellow, Hariri Institute for Computing; Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering (ENG)
Last fall, the Hariri Institute for Computing launched a redesigned “Meet Our Fellows” series that will showcase the Institute’s 2016 Junior Faculty Fellows as well as the inaugural cohort of Hariri Graduate Student Fellows. Prior to Junior Faculty Fellow presentations, a Graduate Student Fellow will give a 5-minute preview of his or her current research.