The Levantine Ceramics Project: Phase II
SPRING 2013 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE Andrea Berlin (Archaeology, College of Arts and Sciences) In the field of archaeology we are drowning in data, and that creates an unusual problem. In most fields, more data is a good thing. In theory that’s true for archaeology as well. In practice, however, keeping up with ever-increasing amounts of […]
Privacy Year
SPRING 2013 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES Sharon Goldberg, Ran Canetti, Leonid Reyzin (Computer Science, College of Arts and Sciences) The Privacy Year, funded by HIC, RISCS, Penn State, and Harvard’s CRCS, brought three top data privacy researchers, Kobbi Nissim, Sofya Raskhodnikova, and Adam Smith, to BU for AY 2013-14. The main focus was research about data […]
To Tweet or to Yelp: Accountability and Choice in Online Consumer Feedback
SPRING 2012 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE John Byers (Computer Science, College of Arts and Sciences) This work studied the interplay between consumers and an emerging class of firms that generate economic value in whole or in part by enabling users to share their experiences through comments, reviews and online feedback, notably Yelp, Twitter, TripAdvisor and Airbnb. […]
Network Inference and Perturbation to Study Chemical-Mediated Cancer Induction
SPRING 2014 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE Stefano Monti (Computational Biomedicine, School of Medicine) The proposed project is aimed at integrating multiple genomic data types (primarily, gene expression and high-throughput “cell painting”) to develop predictive models of chemical carcinogenicity based on network reconstruction and differential analysis approaches, toward the identification of a chemical’s mechanism(s) of cancer induction. […]
Computational Synthetic Biological Microfluidics
SPRING 2014 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE Douglas Densmore (Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering) This project is investigating the creation of a complete computational microfluidic design ecosystem, which a software workflow to decompose specific Models of Computation (MoCs) such as data flow, process networks, finite state machines, and synchronous reactive models into primitive biological components that […]
Statistical Models and Computational Methods for Community Detection in Large Networks
SPRING 2014 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES Luis Carvalho (Mathematics & Statistics, College of Arts and Sciences) and Dino Christenson (Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences) The main research goal is to investigate a fully novel statistical methodology to model networks and infer communities using innovative computational methods that formally address these issues in large networks […]
Computational Neuroimaging Analysis Of Language And Cognitive Control Networks: Mining The Human Connectome Project Data Set
SPRING 2014 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES Jason Bohland (Health Services, Sargent College) and David Somers (Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences) The overall goal of this project is to develop, test and validate computational methods for defining canonical brain networks and for identifying them in individual brains. Although Professors Bohland and Somers have known each other […]
Automated Tools for Assisting Formal Reasoning
SPRING 2012 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE Andrei Lapets (Hariri Institute Postdoctoral Fellow) Research communities in formal verification and in programming languages have developed many tools for formal reasoning and methods. These tools, however, have typically been difficult to use for students and researchers in other domains. This project focuses on developing and evaluating domain-specific environments that […]
Clinical Elastic High Performance Computing
SPRING 2012 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES Jonathan Appavoo (Dept. of Computer Science), Dr. Ellen Grant (Children’s Hospital and Harvard University) One of the challenges in analyzing radiology data by computer is that it typically takes days to get the results, because the processing is computationally intensive. In a clinical setting, doctors and patients would benefit from […]
Tree and Multipole Algorithms for Exascale Computing
SPRING 2012 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES Lorena Barba (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering), Cris Cecka (Harvard), Hans Johnston (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) This project is a collaboration among investigators at BU, Harvard, and UMass aimed at creating an open and high-performance software infrastructure for a family of hierarchical N-body algorithms. “N- body” is the name given to any problem that involves a […]