Azer Bestavros

Azer Bestavros is the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and the inaugural Associate Provost for Computing & Data Sciences appointed in 2019 to oversee the development and launch of the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS) a university-wide tenure-home and degree-granting academic unit focused on broadening BU’s footprint in computational and […]

John Byers

John Byers is the AI Advisor to the Provost, a professor of Computer Science, the executive director of the AI Development Accelerator (AIDA), a founding member of the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences, and core faculty of the Hariri Institute. He was previously Associate Dean of the Faculty for the Mathematical and Computational Sciences in the College of […]

Ran Canetti

Ran Canetti is a Professor of Computer Science, an Affiliate Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences, and Co-Director of the Center for Reliable Information System and Cyber Security (RISCS).  He is also a Fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Cryptology and Information and Computation. Canetti […]

Lou Chitkushev

Professor Chitkushev (chit-KOO-shev) is an internationally recognized scholar in cybersecurity and network applications across healthcare, biomedical, and financial information systems. His work is renowned for leveraging computational and AI-driven models to analyze health and economic data, with a strong focus on privacy, data protection, and cybersecurity challenges within complex systems. He is the founding director […]

Stacey Dogan

Stacey Dogan is a Professor of Law in the School of Law at Boston University. She is a leading scholar in intellectual property and competition law. Her recent articles explore cutting-edge topics in trademark, copyright, and right of publicity law, including questions of intermediary liability, the rights of trademark parodists, and evolving norms underlying trademark […]

Juliet Floyd

Juliet Floyd is the Borden Parker Bowne Professor of Philosophy at the College of Arts & Sciences and the Director of the Center for the Humanities. She joined the faculty at Boston University from the City College of New York and C.U.N.Y. (1990-1994), where she served as Associate Director of the Ph.D. program at the Graduate […]

Ahmed Ghappour

Associate Professor of Law, School of Law, LAW Ahmed Ghappour, an expert in criminal law and computer security, joined the full-time faculty of Boston University School of Law in 2017. He was previously a Visiting Assistant Professor at U.C. Hastings College of the Law where he taught Criminal Procedure and a seminar on Electronic Surveillance. […]

Sharon Goldberg

Sharon Goldberg is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and a Sloan Research Fellow. She was selected as an Institute Junior Faculty Fellow in fall 2012. She joined BU’s Department of Computer Science in 2010. Her research focuses on the security and privacy of computer networks, by combining formal techniques from cryptography and game theory with […]

Wendy J. Gordon

Professor of Law, School of Law, LAW Wendy J. Gordon has taught at Boston University since 1993, having taught at Rutgers, Georgetown, University of Michigan and other schools before arriving here. Her scholarship utilizes economics as well as ethics and analytic philosophy to understand copyright, trademark, and related forms of intellectual property. She is probably best […]

Michael J. Meurer

Professor of Law, School of Law, LAW The son of an economics professor, Michael Meurer knew by the time he was 13 that he, too, wanted to teach at the university level. An SB, JD and PhD later, he became an economics professor at Duke University and later a law professor at the University of […]