Ari Trachtenberg Interviewed On Tracking Future Cases of COVID-19 with Cell Phones
Ran Canetti and Mayank Varia, Co-Directors of the Center for Reliable Information Systems & Cyber Security (RISCS) and past Hariri Institute fellow, Ari Trachtenberg, have teamed up with researchers from MIT and other universities to develop an app that uses Bluetooth-enabled cell phones to notify a person if they have come into proximity with someone […]
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 […]
Elaine Nsoesie Shares Her Insights on Social Distancing
Recently former Hariri Institute for Computing research fellow, Dr. Elaine Nsoesie, was quoted in an article published by The Hill titled “Social Distancing Works, But Resistance Prompts Worries of Growing Crisis.” The article features the opinions of health officials and infectious disease experts on the implications of social distancing as a measure to control COVID-19. It also […]
UK-Based Tech Publisher Highlights Three Hariri Institute Researchers for Their Work Fighting COVID-19
This week three BU Hariri Institute for Computing researchers were highlighted in an article in Silicon, a UK-based tech publisher. Mayank Varia (Research Associate Professor of Computer Science and Co-Director of RISCS), Ran Canetti (Professor of Computer Science and Director of RISCS), and Ari Tractenberg (Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Cyber Alliance member) […]
Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow Joins Study on the Spread of Extremist Ideology on the Web
Gianluca Stringhini, Junior Faculty Fellow at the Hariri Institute for Computing, recently joined a team of eight academics from across the globe to conduct a study on how online communities, particularly in the Manosphere, have been orchestrating harassment campaigns and spreading extremist ideologies on the web. Using a tool developed by Google called the Perspective API, the […]
Founding Director of the Hariri Institute Featured in BU Today
Azer Bestavros, the founding director of the Hariri Institute of Computing at Boston University is now ready to take the helm as the Associate Provost for Computing and Data Science (CDS) at Boston University. Talking about his journey on becoming a William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and his utmost zeal for the […]
BU Alums Strive As Successful Data Scientists
BU Today published an article titled “10 Alums Working in Data Science Share Their Career Path Stories” that features prosperous alums who have successfully made their mark in the field of computing and data sciences. With “data scientist” being named one of the best jobs in America, based on indicators such as salary, job satisfaction and […]
Hariri Research Fellow Ksenia Bravaya Awarded Sloan Research Fellowship
Ksenia Bravaya, a BU chemistry professor and Hariri Research Fellow, was recently named as a 2020 Sloan Research Fellowship. She is one of 126 early-career researchers chosen within the United States and has been awarded a two-year, $75,000 fellowship to help advance her research. Bravaya’s research focuses on the movement and transfer of electrons. She […]
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. […]
Francisco Alarcon, BU Computational Artist-in-Residence Was Featured in BU Today
Francisco Alarcon, Boston University’s first computational artist-in-residence and a digital artist was featured in a full-length article in BU Today recently. The article covers how he works with students of the College of Engineering and the College of Fine Arts and that he is a unicorn of sorts that can adeptly change “languages” between talking […]