Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow Leads Team at NEIDL
Researchers at Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) have been awarded 1.9 million dollars in new funding from the Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness (MassCPR), to investigate and study COVID-19. The Brink magazine published an article outlining the activities of the NEIDL in response to this new funding and highlighted the different research teams and […]
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, […]
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 […]
Sanaz Mobasseri Gives Talk about Gender and Emotional Contagion in the Workplace
Recently, BU Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations, Questrom, and Hariri Institute for Computing Junior Faculty Fellow, Sanaz Mobasseri gave a talk on her research titled “Is Susceptibility to Emotional Contagion Gendered? Sometimes.” This talk is part of the Wed@Hariri Talk Series where Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellows share their research with the Hariri Institute and Boston University communities. […]
Stringhini Delivers Wed@Hariri Talk on Weaponized Online Content to a Packed Room
Yesterday, BU Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Hariri Institute for Computing Junior Faculty Fellow, Gianluca Stringhini gave a talk in front of a packed room on his research titled “Computational Methods to Measure and Mitigate Weaponized Online Information.” This talk is part of the Wed@Hariri Talk Series where Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellows share their research with the […]
Wen Li Gives Talk about Electron Dynamics within Earth’s Radiation Belt
Yesterday, Wen Li, BU Assistant Professor of Astronomy and Hariri Institute for Computing Junior Faculty Fellow, gave a talk on her research titled “Quantitative Assessment of Earth’s Radiation Belt Electron Dynamics Using Physics-Based and Machine-Learning Approaches.” This talk is part of the Wed@Hariri Talk Series where Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellows share their research with the Hariri Institute and Boston University communities. […]
Allyson Sgro Gives Wed@Hariri Talk About Multicellular Decision Making
Yesterday, Allyson Sgro, BU Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Hariri Institute for Computing Junior Faculty Fellow, gave a talk on her research titled “What Happened and What Should I Do Next: Identifying Algorithms Multicellular Decision Making.” This talk is part of the Wed@Hariri Talk Series where Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellows share their research with […]
2019 Junior Faculty Fellows Welcomed at Luncheon
On October 11, 2019, the Hariri Institute for Computing hosted the Junior Faculty Fellows Award Luncheon to celebrate and welcome the ninth cohort of Junior Faculty Fellows. The event was held at the Hotel Commonwealth and was attended by the newest JFFs, former fellows and faculty. The event was hosted by Professor Azer Bestavros, Founding […]
HIC Junior Faculty Fellow Emily Ryan Featured in BU Today
HIC Junior Faculty Fellow Emily Ryan’s research on preserving lithium battery life by breaking up dendrite growth was featured in BU Today September 24, 2018. Professor Ryan and her team at the Computational Energy Laboratory at the BU College of Engineering use computational models to find the best plan for suppressing dendrite growth and improving […]