Junior Faculty Fellows Program | Rafik Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering

Support for Early Career Faculty

Our Junior Faculty Fellows program aims to both recognize outstanding early-career computing and data-driven researchers at Boston University and support their continued development by connecting them with one another and with the Institute community at large through various mechanisms and activities. Junior Faculty Fellows are early-career faculty researchers who are selected for a three-year appointment. Since 2011, the Institute has awarded 89 Junior Faculty Fellows across 29 departments and 8 colleges.

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Hariri Institute Recognizes Key Individuals at Annual Community Recognition Awards

September 30th, 2025

By Maria Yaitanes On Friday, September 12, Hariri Institute recognized Katherine D’Angelo, Nancy Clinton, Kristen Dionne, Pujan Paudel, and Asad Malik at its annual Community Recognition Awards ceremony. The Community Recognition Awards highlights the people who make the Hariri Institute’s mission of catalyzing cross-disciplinary collaborations among researchers possible. These individuals exemplify the heart of the […]

BU Scientists Advance Efforts to Predict the Behavior of Bacterial Colonies

September 10th, 2025

Using COMETS simulations, researchers showed how metabolism, nutrient use, and physical growth shape colony structure and genetic diversity By Maureen Stanton Microbes — tiny organisms invisible to the naked eye — rarely live in isolation. They form dynamic communities that shape ecosystems in our bodies, soils, oceans, and industries. Despite their microscopic size, these communities […]

AI Breakthrough Offers New Path to Designing Next-Gen Materials

September 4th, 2025

By Maria Yaitanes Every material’s properties—like strength or flexibility—depend entirely on how its atoms are arranged and bonded. Even with the same element, like carbon, small structural changes can lead to vastly different results: a diamond’s tight geometric bonds makes it hard, while graphite’s loose, layered structure makes it soft. Amorphous carbon describes a carbon […]

Advancing Alzheimer’s Research through Multimodal Data and Digital Innovation

For Dr. Huitong Ding (Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow), the path to understanding Alzheimer’s disease runs through the data that captures everyday life—how people speak, sleep, move, and think. As a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology at the Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and investigator at the Framingham Heart Study, Ding’s research bridges data science, digital health, and Alzheimer’s disease (AD), with a focus on better understanding and predicting diverse ways AD manifests and progresses across populations.

Hear from Past Junior Faculty Fellows

Read more about our FY25 Junior Faculty Fellows' experiences and how the Hariri Institute’s Junior Faculty Fellowship supported their research, professional growth, and engagement with a vibrant interdisciplinary community.

Junior Faculty Fellows (JFF)