Institute Announces 2017 Junior Faculty Fellows
The Hariri Institute for Computing at Boston University is pleased to announce its seventh cohort of Junior Faculty Fellows. They are: Alina Ene, Assistant Professor, Computer Science (CAS) Helen Jenkins, Assistant Professor, Biostatistics (SPH) Maxwell Palmer, Assistant Professor, Political Science (CAS) Daniel Sussman, Assistant Professor, Mathematics & Statistics (CAS) Stephen Terry, Assistant Professor, Economics (CAS) […]
Sam Ling
Sam Ling was selected as an Institute Junior Faculty Fellow beginning in fall 2015. He is an assistant professor in Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University. Dr. Ling directs the Visual Neuroscience lab, which aims to understand how the human visual system optimizes itself for the task at hand. Towards that end, his research […]
Kirill Korolev
Kirill Korolev was selected as an Institute Junior Faculty Fellow in fall 2015. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Graduate Program in Bioinformatics at BU, which he joined in 2013. After receiving his PhD in theoretical physics from Harvard University in 2010, he spent three years at the Massachusetts Institute […]
Leila Agha
Leila Agha is an assistant professor in the Markets, Public Policy, and Law Department at the BU Questrom School of Business. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2011. She is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research focuses on technology and […]
Nachiketa Sahoo
Nachiketa Sahoo was selected as an Institute Junior Faculty Fellow in fall 2012. He joined the Information Systems Department in the Questrom School of Business in July 2011. His research includes applying machine learning techniques to problems in social science. For example, how should recommendation systems (such as for books or movies) handle changing preferences among the customers? […]
Sharon Goldberg
Sharon Goldberg was selected as an Institute Junior Faculty Fellow in fall 2012. She joined BU’s Department of Computer Science in 2010. Her research focuses on the security and privacy of computer networks, by combining formal techniques from cryptography and game theory with empirical network data and large-scale simulations. She has served on working groups of the […]
Douglas Densmore
Douglas Densmore was selected as an Institute Junior Faculty Fellow in fall 2012. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. He was awarded his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2007. Originally interested in programming video games, Professor Densmore discovered an interest in microprocessor design, leading to his expertise […]
Georgios Zervas
Georgios Zervas was selected as an Institute Junior Faculty Fellow in fall 2013. He is an assistant professor of marketing at BU’s Questrom School of Business. Previously, he was a Simons Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University and an affiliate at the Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS) at Harvard University. He received his PhD in […]
Konstantinos Spiliopoulos
Konstantinos Spiliopoulos was selected as an Institute Junior Faculty Fellow in fall 2013. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at BU, which he joined in 2012. After receiving his PhD at the University of Maryland at College Park, he was a Prager Assistant Professor at Brown University. His current research work […]
Pankaj Mehta
Pankaj Mehta was selected as an Institute Junior Faculty Fellow in fall 2013. He is an assistant professor in the Physics Department at BU and is a theoretical physicist interested in problems at the interface of physics and biology. He holds a BS in Mathematics from Caltech and a PhD in Physics from Rutgers University. Before joining BU, […]