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  • Erol Pekoz

    Professor and Department Chair, Operations and Technology Management Department
    Erol Peköz has a BS degree from Cornell University, and MS and Ph.D degrees in Operations Research from University of California, Berkeley. The research interests of Professor Peköz cover the areas of operations research, applied probability, data science, statistics, queueing models, supply chain management, healthcare operations management, fintech and cryptocurrencies. His work appears in academic journals such as Operations Research, Annals of […]

  • James Perkins

    Associate Professor (ME, SE)
    Professor James Perkins is an affiliated faculty with the Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE) and a faculty member of the Division of Systems Engineering. He is a member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and serves on the editorial board of the International […]

  • Thomas Perls

    Professor, Medicine, Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
    Dr. Perls is among the international leaders in the field of human exceptional longevity. He is founder and director of the New England Centenarian Study, the largest study of centenarians and their families in the world. He is also a principal investigator of the NIA-funded Long Life Family Study. Dr. Perls is also a vocal […]

  • Sue Pett

    Administrative Coordinator
    Sue provides comprehensive administrative support for HIC and the Data Learning Initiative, including oversight of the HIC student office assistants.

  • Nathan Phillips

    Professor
    Dr. Nathan Phillips is a physiological ecologist who studies land-climate interactions in terrestrial ecosystems and human-dominated environments, including exchanges of energy, water, and greenhouse gases including methane and carbon dioxide exchanged between the air and leaves, soil, buildings, humans, and pipelines. He works with advocates, community members and policymakers to apply my research to advance […]

  • Alyssa Pierson

    Assistant Professor (ME, SE), ENG
    Alyssa N. Pierson is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Boston University. Her research interests include trust and cooperation in multi-agent systems, distributed robotics control, and socially-compliant autonomous system design. She focuses on designing robotic systems that interact with humans and other robots in complex, dynamic environments. Prior to joining BU, Professor Pierson was […]

  • Eugene Pinsky

    Associate Professor of the Practice, Computer Science
    Dr. Eugene Pinsky first joined the faculty of Boston University in 1986, after earning his doctorate at Columbia University. He was an assistant professor of computer science in the College of Arts & Sciences until 1993, when he left BU and gained extensive industry experience designing computational methods to analyze and monitor market risk at […]

  • Spencer Piston

    Associate Professor of Political Science; Director of Advanced Programs
    Spencer Piston is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Boston University. He received his PhD in 2014 from the University of Michigan. His research examines the politics of oppression in the United States, focusing on race, class, public opinion, political behavior, elections, the welfare state, and the criminal justice system. Piston is the author […]

  • Anatoli Polkovnikov

    Associate Professor of Physics, CAS
    Anatoli Polkovnikov is interested in understanding various properties of interacting many-particle systems, especially driven away from equilibrium. Particular topics include representation of quantum dynamics through classical trajectories: theory and applications, understanding non-equilibrium thermodynamics from microscopics, universal aspects of dissipation for nearly adiabatic evolution, dynamics near phase transitions. His research is closely tied to experiments in […]

  • Elana Pontecorvo

    Doctoral Student Researcher, Wheelock
    Elana Pontecorvo is a PhD student in the Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences PhD program. She holds an EdM in Deaf Education from Boston University. She joined the LAVA Lab to pursue her interest in sign language acquisition, and was the lab manager for the LAVA Lab and Dr. Naomi Caselli’s Lex Lab before beginning […]
  • photo of Allison Portnoy, ScD, Assistant Professor of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health; Junior Faculty Fellow, Hariri Institute for Computing

    Allison Portnoy

    Junior Faculty Fellow (2025) Assistant Professor, Global Health, SPH
    Allison Portnoy, ScD, is an assistant professor of global health focused on vaccine decision science and policy. Her research includes economic evaluation and public health policy, simulation modeling, health equity, and the impact of vaccination on population health and economic outcomes. She is particularly interested in broadening the value of vaccination in high-burden settings. Her […]

  • Clare Poynton

    Assistant Professor, Radiology
    Dr. Clare Poynton's research is in medical image reconstruction and analysis problems such as quantitative susceptibility mapping and phase-based analysis, segmentation, registration, and modeling and correction of artifacts in structural, functional, and diffusion MRI. Her thesis research focused on quantifying magnetic susceptibility and iron concentration in the brain from MR phase data. Non-invasive iron quantification […]

  • Rohit Prasad

    Senior Vice President and Head Scientist for Artificial General Intelligence at Amazon
    Rohit Prasad is Senior Vice President and Head Scientist for Artificial General Intelligence at Amazon. In this role, Prasad leads a team that is advancing Amazon’s generative AI technologies – including Amazon’s most expansive multimodal Large Language Models, Amazon Nova. Prior to that, Prasad led the development of Amazon Alexa’s underlying machine learning capabilities from […]

  • Justin Provazza

    Postdoctoral Associate CCS
    Justin is interested in the development and implementation of accurate and efficient quantum dynamics algorithms. Currently, Justin is working on developing methods to compute nonlinear electronic spectra in open quantum systems. This methodology will be used to gain an understanding of mechanisms that nature employs to optimize excitation energy transfer processes in natural photosynthetic light-harvesting […]

  • Pawel Przytycki

    Junior Faculty Fellow (2025) Assistant Professor, Computing and Data Sciences, CDS
    Pawel Przytycki is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences at Boston University. He received his PhD in computer science from Princeton University where he was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow in Dr. Mona Singh's lab focusing on the use of algorithms and networks for cancer genomics. After that he was […]

  • Yulu Qin

    Graduate Student Fellow (2026) Linguistics, GRS
    Yulu Qin is a Ph.D. Student in the Linguistics Program in the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, and she is advised by Najoung Kim. Yulu is a 2026 Graduate Student Fellow. Her research is at the intersection of linguistics and artificial intelligence, especially focusing on what kind of linguistic knowledge and capabilities can be […]

  • Zhongjun Qu

    Professor, Economics; Director of Graduate Studies
    Zhongjun Qu’s main research interests are in theoretical and applied econometrics. A first part of his research studies identification, estimation, inference, and model comparison for dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models. A second part revolves around the issue of low frequency variation that encompasses regime switching, structural change, long memory, and cointegration. A third part proposes new […]

  • Kristen Rajbanshi

    Senior Administrative Assistant
    Kristen Rajbanshi is the Senior Administrative Coordinator for the Hariri Institute. Apart from school, Kristen has worked in various different human resources departments, worked in campus recruitment at Deloitte and was previously the Office Manager at EPAM Continuum in the Boston Seaport district.

  • Siddarth Ramachandran

    Distinguished Professor (ECE)
    The Ramachandran Group studies the fundamental properties and applications of spatially structured light beams. Examples of such states of light include (a) Bessel beams that can self-heal through obstructions and are diffraction resistant for longer distances than conventional Gaussian beams; (b) beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) that enable super-resolution microscopy or rotate microscopic particles […]

  • Siddharth Ramachandran

    Distinguished Professor, Engineering (ECE, Physics, MSE)
    Siddharth Ramachandran is a Distinguished Professor of Engineering (ECE, Physics, MSE). He started his career at Bell Labs, and after a decade in industrial research labs, returned to academia as a member of the faculty at Boston University. He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Engineering at BU, with appointments in the departments of Electrical […]