FALL 2019 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Vijaya B. Kolachalama, Assistant Professor of Medicine, MED Co-PI: Rhoda Au, Professor of Anatomy & Neurobiology, MED Track: Digital Health Initiative & Artificial Intelligence Research Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a disease that will require a high cost of care, and the total amount keeps rising. Identifying risk factors that are amenable […]
FALL 2019 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: M. Patricia Fabian, Research Assistant Professor of Environment Health, SPH Co-PI: Lucy Hutyra, Associate Professor of Earth and Environment, CAS Urban green space can impact communities by mitigating the effects of heatwaves, reducing the rates of urban runoff, and moderating heat islands. Exposure to green space will also lead to various […]
FALL 2019 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Dan Li, Assistant Professor of Earth and Environment, CAS Co-PI: Kia Teymourian, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, MET As more and more of the population lives in the city, it is more and more challenging to understand and make predictions of heat transfer and dispersion of air pollutants over urban […]
FALL 2019 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Alan Marscher, Professor OF Astronomy, CAS Co-PIs: Svetlana Jorstad, Senior Research Scientist of Institute for Astrophysical Research; Manasvita Joshi, Research Assistant of Institute for Astrophysical Research Track: HIC The team proposed to develop procedures to cross-compare astronomical time series data, obtained at different wavelengths, of highly variable cosmic objects called “blazars”. The […]
FALL 2019 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Kaija Schilde, Assistant Professor of International Relations, CAS Track: HIC Researchers, journalists, and citizens have used the Freedom of Information (FOIA) Requests since 1965 as a proxy for transparency and democratic oversight. The researcher hypothesized that increases in transparency requests in a given area will produce increased government outsourcing in that […]
FALL 2019 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Allyson Sgro, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, ENG Co-PI: Pankaj Mehta, Associate Professor of Physics, CAS Track: HIC & Artificial Intelligence Research While standard modeling techniques can describe and predict biological behaviors, they fall short of offering strategies for manipulation and reprogramming. The team hypothesizes that single cells have algorithms for […]
FALL 2019 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Ludovic Trinquart, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, SPH Track: HIC & Digital Health Initiative Systematic reviews (SRs) are appraisals and syntheses of original studies to answer some clinical questions. It is important because they help to inform clinicians and researchers on patient-important issues. However, the validity of the SRs of observational studies […]
FALL 2019 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Mayank Varia, Research Associate Professor of Computer Science, CAS Co-PIs: Dino Christenson, Associate Professor of Political Science, CAS, and Mark Crovella, Professor of Computer Sciences, CAS Track: HIC & Red Hat Collaboratory Understanding public opinion dynamics is important but difficult because the polls are widely used with significant drawbacks. The team proposes […]
Ahmed Ghappour, HIC Data Science Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor at BU’s School of Law, has been awarded the 2018-2019 Peter Paul Career Development Professorship. The professorship includes a three-year award to support Professor Ghappour’s research or creative work, which centers on big data as applied to cybersecurity and electronic surveillance, exploring the interplay between emerging […]
HIC Junior Faculty Fellow Emily Ryan’s research on preserving lithium battery life by breaking up dendrite growth was featured in BU Today September 24, 2018. Professor Ryan and her team at the Computational Energy Laboratory at the BU College of Engineering use computational models to find the best plan for suppressing dendrite growth and improving […]