Lucy Hutyra

Lucy Hutyra, PhD, is a Chair of and a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment at the College of Arts and Sciences at Boston University and Director of the BU Biogeosciences Program. Hutyra is a MacArthur Fellow, known for her research on the urban carbon cycle and the impacts of urbanization on vegetation, […]

Jonathan Jay

Jonathan Jay is an Assistant Professor of Community Health Sciences at the School of Public Health. He studies urban health, especially youth exposure to gun violence and works at the intersection of data science and community health, focusing on relationships between urban environments and health and safety risks. He is the principal investigator of a […]

Jihye Jeon

Jihye Jeon is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the College of Arts & Sciences, and a Junior Faculty Fellow of the Hariri Institute at Boston University. Jeon’s research is in the field of industrial organization and is aimed at understanding markets characterized by imperfect competition and information frictions. Her recent work investigates the role of demand uncertainty in cyclical investment […]

Garrett Johnson

Garrett Johnson is an Associate Professor of Marketing at Questrom School of Business and a Junior Faculty Fellow of the Hariri Institute at Boston University.  Johnson researches digital marketing: measuring its effectiveness and examining its privacy issues. His ad effectiveness research uses large-scale experiments to measure how and how much ads work. His privacy research […]

Swathi Kiran, PhD

Swathi Kiran is the Founding Director of the Center for Brain Recovery (CBR), Director of the Aphasia Research Laboratory, and James and Cecilia Tse Ying Professor of the Neurorehabilitation Department of Speech Language and Hearing Sciences, and Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences. She is also the Co-founder and Scientific Director of Constant Therapy Heath, […]

Vijaya Kolachalama

Vijaya Kolachalama is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Computer Science at Boston University. His work focuses on developing advanced machine learning and image processing algorithms and designing software technologies that have diagnostic relevance. He is also the course director and primary instructor of Machine Learning for Biomedical Applications, taught within the Graduate Medical Sciences […]

Orran Krieger, PhD

Orran Krieger is the Director of Red Hat Research (while on leave of absence from Boston University), Director of the Mass Open Cloud Alliance, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Computer Science at Boston University. Krieger’s research interests, broadly, are in computer systems, with focus on operating systems, file systems, and cloud […]

Brian Kulis

Brian Kulis is a Professor at Boston University with appointments in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Department of Computer Science, the Division of Systems Engineering and the Faculty of Computing and Data Science, and is an affiliate of the Center for Information & Systems Engineering (CISE) at Boston University. He is also […]

Loretta Lees

Professor Loretta Lees is the Director of the Initiative on Cities and a Professor of Sociology at Boston University. An urban geographer committed to justice, Professor Lees is internationally known for her research on gentrification and urban regeneration, global urbanism, urban policy, urban public space, architecture, and urban social theory. The author of multiple books, […]

Tesary Lin

Tesary Lin is an Isabel Anderson Career Development Assistant Professor of Marketing at Boston University Questrom School of Business, a Junior Faculty Fellow (2022) at the Hariri Institute, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Technology & Policy Research Initiative. Lin’s research focuses on how information and data moderate the relationship between firms and consumers. Specific […]