HIC Data Science Faculty Fellow, Research Awardee Receive Career Development Professorship Awards
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 Featured in BU Today
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 […]
Misinformation Reduction in Patient-doctor Relationships
Spring 2018 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE PI: Anita Tucker,Professor, Questrom School of Business Co-PI: Jillian Berry Jaeker, Department of Operations and Technology Management The Challenge While doctors are entrusted with the provision of healthcare services for the patients, in some cases wrong diagnosis has been rampant. Evidently, such cases are witnessed in healthcare systems that do […]
Characterization of Cognitive State from Signatures of Digital Data
Spring 2018 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE PI: Thomas Perls, Professor, Genetics, Medicine, MED Co-PI(s): Paola Sebastiani, Professor, Biostatistics, SPH; Stacy Andersen, Assistant Professor, Medicine, MED The Challenge Though the numerous states of mind are known, pointing out the specific person’s state of mind at any particular moment is somewhat challenging. Only after establishing a person’s […]
Optimizing machine learning capabilities to support young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities’ (IDD) engagement in health-related behaviors
Spring 2018 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE PI: Jessica Kramer, Adjunct Associate Professor, Dept of Occupational Therapy Co-PI: Dora Erdos, Lecturer & Undergraduate Program Director, Computer Science, CAS The challenge The major challenge is witnessed in the provision of support to young people with IDD in order to increase their capacities in the performance of various tasks related […]
KidneyAI: Point-of-care software application for assessment of renal diseases
Spring 2018 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE PI: Vijaya Kolachalama, Assistant Professor, Computational Biomedicine, MED Co-PI(s): Vipul Chitalia, Assistant Professor, Medicine, MED; Joel Henderson, Associate Professor & Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine The challenge The renal disease requires timely diagnosis and design monitoring schedules to eliminate possibilities of fatalities among the patient. Renal disease is a […]
Predicting Patterns in Real-time Cognitive Performance in Neurodegenerative Disease
Spring 2018 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE PI: Alice Cronin-Golomb, Professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences Co-PI: Daniel Fulford, Assistant Professor, Occupational Therapy, SAR; Vijaya Kolachalama, Assistant Professor, Medicine, MED The challenge There has been a global rise in life expectancy and a decline in fertility; thus there has been an increasing number of people older than […]
Autism Spectrum Engaged Cloud Technology (ASPECT) Hub
Spring 2018 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE PI: Catherine Caldwell-Harris, Associate Professor, Psychology Co-PI: Wesley Wildman, Professor, Philosophy, Theology, and Ethics The challenge Guardians experience difficulties in raising children with autism disorder. Victims of the disorder suffer communication and speech deficiency due to differed sensory processing which breeds social issues. Behavioral changes and cognitive impairment make the child rigid to change. […]
The Global Structure of the Heliosphere with a Realistic Time-Dependent Solar Wind
Spring 2018 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE PI: Merav Opher, Associate Professor, Astronomy Co-PI: Charalampos Tsourakakis, Assistant Professor, Computer Science The Challenge The heliosphere is subject to changes in the intensity of solar winds. The challenge, however, is to determine the structure of the heliosphere in real-time to track even the smallest changes in its structure since like all other uncertainties, […]
Bridging Linguistic and Visual Knowledge through Visual Genome
FALL 2018 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE PI: Derry Wijaya, Assistant Professor, Computer Science What is the Challenge? Visual Question Answering (VQA) systems aim to provide answers to questions about images but currently suffer from limitations. Successful performance on the VQA task could dramatically improve the lives of blind people, whose questions about images are currently quite difficult […]