2024 Red Hat Collaboratory Research Incubation Award Recipients
By Ken Rudolph, Hariri Institute The Red Hat Collaboratory at Boston University has announced the recipients of its 2024 Research Incubation Awards. Twelve new and renewed research projects received nearly $2 million in funding to support research in topics ranging from reconfigurable hardware to homomorphic encryption, energy efficiency, and training models for autonomous vehicles. This […]
Nia and Mizgerd Receive Kilachand Fund Award To Advance Crystal Rib Cage
Hariri Faculty Affiliate, Assistant Professor Hadi Nia (BME, MSE), and BU Pulmonary Center Director Joseph Mizgerd received a 2023 Rajen Kilachand Fund for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering award to advance development of the crystal rib cage, an innovation developed in the Nia Lab that allows probing real-time lung function at cellular resolution. The […]
Histomorphologic Analysis of Ebola Viral Disease in Rhesus Macaques Using Deep Learning
SPRING 2020 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Nicholas Crossland, Assistant Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, MED Co-PI: Vijaya Kolachalama, Assistant Professor, Medicine, MED Track: Hariri Institute for Computing What is the Challenge? Ebola viral disease (EVD) is caused by 1 of 4 species in the Ebolavirus genus (Zaire, Sudan, Taï Forest, & Bundibugyo). These result in hemorrhagic fever in […]
reFuzz: Reusing Fuzzing Results to Improve Security Assessments
SPRING 2020 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE PI: Manuel Egele, Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, ENG Special Track: Honda Research Institute Europe What is the Challenge? As cybersecurity concerns increasingly move to the forefront of manufacturers’ concerns, their need to perform security assessments of products and systems pre and post-sale receives significant attention. However, though security assessments […]
Multi-scale Modeling of Complex Interfaces Aided by Machine Learning
SPRING 2020 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Emily M. Ryan, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, ENG Co-PIs: Sahar Sharifzadeh, Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering, ENG. Brian Kulis, Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, ENG Track: Hariri Institute for Computing What is the Challenge? To investigate the complex interfaces in material systems and create […]
Automated Threat Modeling for Connected Vehicles
SPRING 2020 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE PI: David Starobinski, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Systems Engineering, ENG Special Track: Honda Research Institute Europe What is the Challenge? Misbehavior by compromised vehicles represents a significant threat to connected vehicle technology. Specifically, a compromised vehicle that has authenticated credentials allowing it to communicate with other vehicles freely. With […]
Interactive Biofeedback to Improve Voice Masculinity in Transmasculine Speakers
SPRING 2020 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Cara Stepp, Associate Professor, Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, ENG Co-PI: Lauren Tracy, Assistant Professor, Otolaryngology, MED Track: Hariri Institute for Computing What is the Challenge? Acoustic parameters can target voice modification sessions to alter the perception of gender of transmasculine speakers meaningfully. Additionally, novel speech resynthesis techniques can be used to […]
Towards Developing Computational Models to Predict the Spreading of Radicalizing Content on the Web
SPRING 2020 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Jessica Stern, Research Professor, Pardee School of Global Studies Co-PI: Gianluca Stringhini, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, ENG Track: Hariri Institute for Computing What is the Challenge? Online social media has become a prominent vector for extremists to spread radicalized content, to make their ideology reach a large number of people by […]
Accelerating Multi-Party Computation with FPGAs
FALL 2019 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Martin Herbordt, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, ENG Co-PI: Mayank Varia, Research Associate Professor of Computer Science, CAS Track: HIC & Red Hat Collaboratory Datasets can tell a great story and provide critical insights in almost every aspect of society. Unfortunately, guaranteeing privacy can slow this process, and critical insights otherwise […]
Pre-Cancer AutoHist: A Software Application to Classify Lung Pre-Cancer Histologic Features
FALL 2019 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Jennifer Beane, Assistant Professor of Medicine, MED Track: Digital Health Initiative Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death, and the pre-cancer lesion is an important clinical indicator of lung cancer risk to help therapies intercept the cancer development process in the early stage to increase survival. In this case, […]