Kolachalama Lab Launches PodGPT to Revolutionize Health and Science By Maeve Smillie In an age where medical misinformation runs rampant and science communication often falls flat, a new artificial intelligence tool promises to bridge the gap between expert knowledge and everyday understanding. Introducing PodGPT: a tool trained not just on written material like textbooks and […]
Boston University Professors Dima Kozakov and Sandor Vajda Win Top Honors at Global CASP16 Competition in Category of Multiprotein Complexes By Maureen Stanton A BU-led interdisciplinary research team, bringing together expertise in biomedical engineering, applied mathematics, and theoretical physics, has won top honors at the internationally renowned CASP16 (Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction) competition. The […]
BU-led Team Pioneers Physics-inspired Scheme for Computation on Encrypted Data at Scale By Maureen L. Stanton Today’s encryption faces mounting risks—from escalating cyberattacks to the looming threat of quantum computing. As digital systems grow more complex and reliant on cloud and third-party services, vulnerabilities multiply. JP Morgan, for instance, reports that it blocks 45 billion […]
Expose Critical Cloud Hardware Vulnerability in Widely Used Technique By Maureen L. Stanton A team from Boston University, in collaboration with researchers at IBM and Red Hat, earned second place at the inaugural hardware hacking competition at the IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST). In their demonstration, they exposed a critical […]
FRP Spotlight: Privacy Preserving Energy Analytics for Data Centers By Maureen L. Stanton Next time you ask ChatGPT a complex question, consider this: generating a 100-word response involves trillions of calculations. Now multiply that by 10% of the world’s population — roughly its user base — and the energy used could reach 400,000 kWh, enough […]
by Mia Knežević, CISE Staff How does your DoorDash order get to your doorstep so quickly? Jinglong Zhao, Assistant Professor of Operations and Technology Management at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business — and faculty affiliate of both the Center for Information & Systems Engineering (CISE) and the Hariri Institute — has some answers. Zhao’s […]
By Maureen L. Stanton Infectious diseases are emerging and re-emerging at an unprecedented rate, with profound impacts on global health. In just the first three months of 2025, the U.S. recorded as many measles deaths as it did in the previous 24 years combined. New zoonotic diseases, naturally transmissible between humans and animals, continue to […]
Discoveries could transform how we learn, recover, and model language By Maureen L. Stanton Are words arbitrary? For centuries, scientists believed that words are essentially random sounds that are given meaning. For example, there’s nothing about the sound of the word “dog” that tells you what it means—it’s just something we’ve learned. Following this logic, […]
By Maria Yaitanes Today, Boston University launched the Artificial Intelligence Development Accelerator (AIDA) Initiative. Hariri Institute Director Yannis Paschalidis, Distinguished Professor (ECE, SE, BME) of Engineering and Founding Professor of Computing & Data Sciences, and Hariri Institute Faculty Affiliate, John Byers, Professor of Computer Science and Former Senior Associate Dean of the Faculty for Mathematical […]
By Maureen L. Stanton Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow Eshed Ohn-Bar has received the Boston University College of Engineering (ENG) Early Career Research Excellence Award for 2025. Ohn-Bar, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, leads the Human-to-Everything (H2X) Lab at BU, which develops intelligent technologies with robust autonomy and real-time assistance capabilities. His research […]