Maryam Aliakbarpour

Postdoctoral Associate, RISCS Maryam Aliakbarpour is a postdoc scholar at Boston University (BU) with a joint position at Northeastern University. Before BU, she spent a year as a postdoc at UMass Amherst. In 2020, Maryam received her Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Theory of Computation (TOC) group at CSAIL, MIT, where Prof. Ronitt Rubinfeld […]

Mona Jalal

Mona Jalal is a visting researcher at the Hariri Institute’s Data Science Mentoring Circles program and a computer vision research engineer at Toyota Material Handling North America (TMHNA) in Columbus, Indiana. There, she develops next-generation perception technologies for industrial automation. Mona specializes in computer vision research, AI platform engineering, and production-scale perception systems, with expertise […]

Liam Kelley, PhD

Liam Kelley is a Postdoctoral associate in the bioinformatics program and a member of the Segrè Lab. Liam joined the Segrè Lab in February 2025 as a postdoctoral associate to work on developing techniques to study human tumor metabolism using FBA and COMETS. In his graduate work at Harvard Medical School, he utilized a mix […]

Hasini Weerathunge, PhD

Hasini Weerathunge, PhD is a biomedical engineer, postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan, and a visiting researcher at the Hariri Institute’s Data Science Mentoring Circles program. Her research combines neuroimaging, computational modeling, and data-driven analysis to study the neural circuits underlying speech motor control and communication disorders, with growing work in noninvasive neuromodulation. […]