SAIL Interns Conclude Summer Session with Presentations
Since 2016, the Software & Application Innovation Lab (SAIL) has offered internship opportunities to BU students to grow their software engineering expertise and solve research challenges across disciplines. SAIL interns and fellows work directly with software engineers and researchers in the space where academia meets application, learning and experimenting with new technologies on projects in […]
Institute Junior Faculty Fellows, Research Awardees and AIR Core member Receive Tenure
The institute is pleased to announce that Junior Faculty Fellow Cara Stepp, Hariri Research Awardees Marié Abe and Joanna Davidson and AI Research Initiative Core Faculty member Kate Saenko are 4 of 24 faculty members on the Charles River Campus promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure. Ranging from fields such as social and health sciences, information systems, musicology, mathematics, marketing, […]
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) […]
Institute Fellow Sharon Goldberg honored by N2Women
Sharon Goldberg, a computer science professor and Hariri Institute Faculty Fellow, was named to the 2017 list of “N2Women: Rising Stars in Networking and Communications.”
CS Professor Leo Reyzin wins Best Paper at Eurocrypt 2017
Computer Science professor Leo Reyzin has won Best Paper at the Eurocrypt 2017 conference for his paper “Scrypt is Maximally Memory-Hard.” The paper, which was written by Reyzin and Joël Alwen, Binyi Chen, Krzysztof Pietrzak, and Stefano Tessaro, discusses their work on memory-hard function.
Two Institute Affiliates Promoted to Full Professorship
Two of the 16 faculty recently promoted to the rank of full professor on the Charles River Campus are closely connected to the Hariri Institute and have been supported through the Hariri Research Awards and Junior Faculty Fellows programs. Prakash Ishwar, professor of electrical and computer engineering and systems engineering in the College of Engineering has received full professor status, as well as Richard West, professor of computer science in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Mayank Varia Appointed Co-Director of BU RISCS Center
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.
Institute Fellow Leo Reyzin Weighs in on Hacking Ethics
Institute Fellow and Professor of Computer Science Leo Reyzin shared his perspective with The Christian Science Monitor regarding the recent hacking on Netflix and Marvel Twitter accounts by OurMine, a hacking group that benefits from providing commercial services to individuals and corporates on network security.
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 […]