Junior Faculty Fellow Aims To Reduce Racial Disparity in Urban Interpersonal Gun Violence
BY: KAORI (CHRISTINE) YOH Jonathan Jay’s interest in solving public health problems stems from his time as a law student where he engaged with faculty who were passionate about addressing the impacts that policies have on people’s access to life-saving medical treatments. While working in global health policy, Jay realized the unique challenges and opportunities […]
Ripped Genes: How a Junior Faculty Fellow Investigates the Nuances of Cells
BY ALEX JOHNSON Ana Fiszbein has always been interested in biology, but she became fascinated with molecular biology in college after learning about the intricacies of what happens inside of mammalian cells. Now, Fiszbein studies mammalian genes. Genes are incredibly complex structures, but they control and regulate almost everything in the human body. And Fiszbein’s […]
Junior Faculty Fellow Informs Online Privacy with Economics & Marketing
BY GINA MANTICA & DEIRDRE SHAHAR An economist by training, Junior Faculty Fellow Garrett Johnson became interested in digital marketing during his graduate studies. Once Johnson realized the impact his work could have on internet users, he stayed on that path ever since. Now, he applies data science and computing to his research as an […]
Cars that learn how to drive themselves by watching other cars
BY GINA MANTICA Self-driving cars are powered by machine learning algorithms that require vast amounts of driving data in order to function safely. But if self-driving cars could learn to drive in the same way that babies learn to walk – by watching others around them and trying to mimic certain movements – they would […]
How one Junior Faculty Fellow aims to advance engineering research
BY: NATALIE GOLD Boston native Emma Lejeune has found herself back in the area, starting a new lab for her group to advance computationally-driven research. Now a Junior Faculty Fellow at the Hariri Institute, Lejeune aims to advance research as both a mentor and an advocate for open-source data and software. Lejeune’s interest in engineering […]
How one scientist’s curiosty led her to the Hariri Institute
BY: GINA MANTICA Allyson Sgro explored many different career trajectories and research fields before landing in academia. Sgro’s fearless pursuit of her passions led her from considering a path running her own scientific small business to getting degrees and post-doctoral training in chemistry and physics. The interdisciplinary nature of her current work to understand how […]
The Physics of Climate Change – How Earth’s “greening” affects temperature
Many people hear the term “greener earth” and envision flourishing rainforests. But former Junior Faculty Fellow Dan Li hears this phrase and pictures mathematical equations. Li and colleagues use computational models to understand the role that physics plays in climate change so that they can propose effective mitigation strategies. Their article, recently published in Science […]
Junior Faculty Fellow Creates Land Value Map to Improve Conservation Policies
If scientists and lawmakers don’t know how much it costs to conserve private lands, then they cannot enact sufficient policies to protect it. Christoph Nolte, a Junior Faculty Fellow at the Hariri Institute for Computing and an Assistant Professor in Earth & Environment at the BU College of Arts & Sciences, used machine learning to build a map that shows the value of lands across the contiguous United States.
2020 Junior Faculty Fellow: Emma Lejeune awarded Career Development Professorship
We are thrilled to announce that our 2020 Junior Faculty Fellow, Emma Lejeune just received the David R. Dalton Career Development Professorship. Emma is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the College of Engineering. She received her doctorate and master’s in civil and environmental engineering from Stanford University and her bachelor’s degree from Cornell […]
Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow Studies COVID-19 and It’s Effect on Housing
Recently an article in BU Today featured the ongoing crisis of housing in this time of COVID-19. Twenty percent of Americans are out of work, but the rent and mortgage are still due at the first of the month. Moreover, only 26 percent of American cities are providing funds to help families stay in their […]