Ziba Cranmer

Ziba Cranmer is the Director of BU SPARK!, an initiative for student-centered entrepreneurship and innovation in computing. Ziba is an innovation leader with a diverse range of experience spanning the public and private sectors. Prior to BU, Ziba served as Executive Director of a multimillion-dollar initiative supporting public sector innovators in cities across the United […]

Michael Dietze

Michael Dietze leads the Ecological Forecasting Laboratory, the mission of which is to better understand and predict ecological systems; he is the author of Ecological Forecasting. He is interested in the ways that iterative forecasts, which are continually confronted with new data, can improve and accelerate basic environmental science, while at the same time making […]

Neha Gondal, PhD

Neha Gondal, associate professor of sociology, is a mathematical sociologist researching the role of social networks and culture in the exacerbation of status-based inequalities. She is a founding member of BU’s Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences and core faculty at the BU Global Development Policy Center’s Human Capital Initiative. Funded by several National Institutes of […]

Traci Hong

Traci Hong is a professor of media science at the Boston University College of Communication and serves on the steering committee of the Hariri Institute of Computing. Professor Hong’s program of research is at the nexus of health communication and new media technologies, where she advances communication theory by leveraging the media, including new media […]

Heather Hsu

Associate Professor, Pediatrics, MED Heather Hsu, MD, MPH is a pediatric hospitalist at Boston Medical Center and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Boston University School of Medicine. She has an undergraduate degree in Gender Studies from Brown University, a MD from Harvard Medical School, and MPH from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of […]

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, […]

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, […]

Elaine O. Nsoesie

Elaine Nsoesie is Associate Professor of Global Health at the School of Public Health at Boston University. She also leads the Racial Data Tracker project at the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. She is a Data Science Faculty Fellow and was a Founding Faculty of the Boston University Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences. […]