Fatih Acun
Fatih Acun received his B.S. degree in 2019, and his M.S. degree in 2022 in computer engineering, from Middle East Technical University, Turkey. During his master’s degree, he worked on traffic prediction with deep learning methods. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in computer engineering at Boston University. His current research interests include intelligent […]
Afra Feyza Akyurek
PhD Student, Computer Science Feyza is a second-year Computer Science PhD student at Boston University, advised by Derry Wijaya. Before that she received her MSc in Statistics and Data Science from Carnegie Mellon University. She holds bachelor degrees both in Industrial and Computer Engineering from Koç University, Istanbul. Her research interests include natural language processing, machine […]
Tushar Arora
Tushar Arora is a PhD student in computational neuroscience in Professor Brian DePasquale’s lab. His research focuses on neural data analysis and the development of machine learning models to understand the neural dynamics underlying motor control and decision-making. The goal of his work is to improve our ability to decode behavior, forecast neural activity, and […]
Courtney Aul
Courtney Aul is a doctoral student in the Clinical Psychology program, specializing in neuropsychology, in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences under the mentorship of Dr. Alice Cronin-Golomb. She is broadly interested in how impairments in cognitive processes predict trajectories and functional outcomes in healthy aging and neurodegeneration, as well as how these impairments […]
Sarah Bald
Sarah Bald is a PhD student in the Bioinformatics program. She has a BS in Computational and Systems Biology from UCLA, where she studied similarities and differences between the human gut microbiome of western and non-western populations. She is now a part of Daniel Segrè’s lab, which specializes in modeling biological systems, and metabolism. With […]
Kayhan Batmanghelich, PhD
Kayhan Batmanghelich is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering, a Junior Faculty Fellow of the Hariri Institute, and an AIR Affiliate. Previously he was assistant professor at the department of biomedical informatics with a secondary appointment at the school of computing and information at the University of Pittsburgh. Batmanghelich’s research is at the […]
Taylor Beauvais
Taylor Beauvais is a PhD student in Sociology and a Data Science Program Manager for BU Spark! He has a master’s degree in public opinion, research methods, and data analytics from the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, and a bachelor’s degree in psychology and sociology from University at Buffalo in New York. His research focuses […]
Dillon Brout, PhD
Dillon Brout, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Astronomy and Physics Departments in the College of Arts & Sciences, and a Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Affiliate (2024). Previously, Brout was a NASA Einstein Fellow at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian. His research group ties together cosmological distance and velocity measurements of […]
Jacob Brown, PhD
Jacob Brown is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, and a Hariri Institute Faculty Affiliate (2024) at Boston University. He joined the Department and Boston University in 2023, after receiving his Ph.D. in Political Science at Harvard University. His primary research focuses on where people live, and how where they live influences […]
Wei-Lun (Harry) Chao, PhD
Wei-Lun (Harry) Chao is an Associate Professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering at Boston University. His research focuses on machine learning and computer vision, with applications spanning visual recognition, autonomous driving, Imageomics (biodiversity & ecology), and healthcare. He aims to develop fundamental understandings and robust, widely applicable algorithms to tackle real-world challenges. He is particularly […]