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 […]
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 […]
James Chapman, PhD
Dr. James Chapman is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Boston University. He obtained his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2020 and completed his postdoctoral work at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2022. His current research focuses on the fusion of physics-driven simulations and machine […]
Huimin Cheng, PhD
Huimin Cheng is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at Boston University. She received a PhD in statistics from the University of Georgia in 2023 and a master’s degree at the Central University of Finance and Economics. Cheng works closely with biophysicists, engineers, computer scientists, political scientists, public health scientists, and sociologists to solve […]
Kimberly Crespo, PhD
Kimberly Crespo (she/her/ella) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences at Boston University. She is also affiliate faculty in Wheelock College of Education & Human Development’s Institute for Early Childhood Well-Being. Dr. Crespo earned her PhD in Communication Sciences and Disorders and her MS in Speech-Language Pathology from the […]
Brian DePasquale, PhD
Brian DePasquale, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and a Hariri Institute Faculty Affiliate (2023) at Boston University. He conducts research in theoretical neuroscience and machine learning. His research uses mathematical models to characterize and explain how populations of neurons perform computations to produce behavior. Presently, he works with Carlos Brody and Jonathan […]
Huitong Ding, PhD
Huitong Ding, is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology at the Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, and a Junior Faculty Fellow (2025) of the Hariri Institute at Boston University. Dr. Ding is dedicated to advancing inclusive translational research in Alzheimer’s disease. His research explores cognitive heterogeneity, sex differences, early […]
James Feigenbaum, PhD
James Feigenbaum is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Boston University. His primary research interests are at the intersection of economic history and labor economics. Making use of recently digitized and transcribed historical census sources, James has studied intergenerational mobility, inequality, the returns to education, and the long-run effects of early twentieth-century public policy and […]