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    Boston University Designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence

    June 2, 2014
    We are excited to announce that Boston University has been designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance/Cyber Defense Research for academic years 2014-2021. [Read the Letter]
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    Boston University Faculty Brian DePasquale Named 2026 Sloan Research Fellow

    February 17, 2026
    Prestigious award recognizes the most promising early-career researchers in their fields By Maureen Stanton Theoretical neuroscientist Brian DePasquale has been named a 2026 Sloan Research Fellow, a prestigious honor recognizing “outstanding early-career faculty who have the potential to revolutionize their fields of study,” the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced today (Feb. 17). DePasquale is an […]

  • Boston University Releases the BU AI Task Force Report

    April 12, 2024
    The Boston University Provost Office released the Boston University AI Task Force Report on April 11, 2024. The comprehensive report is the work of a university-wide task force appointed by the Provost Office last fall and led by Yannis Paschalidis, Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Director of the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and […]
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    Boston University Secures $10M Frontier Award on Cloud Security

    July 31, 2014
    The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program announced a $10 million  Frontier award to Boston University’s Modular Approach to Cloud Security (MACS) project. MACS is one of  two new center-scale “Frontier” awards to support large, multi-institution projects that address grand challenges in cybersecurity science and engineering with the potential for broad economic and scientific impact. […]

  • Boston University’s Cara Stepp Named AIMBE Fellow

    March 26, 2024
    Stepp recognized for extraordinary achievement in the field of medical and biological engineering By Maureen Stanton Hariri Faculty Affiliate Cara Stepp (SAR, ENG) has been inducted into the 2024 Class of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows. Election to the AIMBE College of Fellows is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to […]

  • Boston University-led Opinion Piece Highlights the Need for Public Health Leadership to Build Trustworthy AI in Health

    July 16, 2026
    To Realize AI’s Promise for Health, Public Health Must Help Shape Its Future By Brendan Galvin From disease surveillance to clinical care, artificial intelligence is transforming health. As AI becomes more deeply embedded in decisions affecting population health, a new editorial argues that realizing AI’s full potential requires public health leadership alongside technical innovation. Dr. […]

  • Boston University’s Ioannis Paschalidis Inducted into 2026 AIMBE College of Fellows

    April 13, 2026
    Prestigious Honor Recognizes the Most Accomplished Researchers in Medical and Biological Engineering By Maureen Stanton The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has inducted Ioannis (Yannis) Paschalidis into its 2026 College of Fellows. This peer-elected membership is among the highest professional distinctions in the field, honoring the top two percent of medical and […]

  • Boston University’s Sarah Milligan Launches First Comprehensive R Package Bringing Variational Autoencoders to Tabular Data

    January 30, 2026
    By Hariri Institute Staff Sarah Milligan, a 2025 Hariri Institute Graduate Student Fellow and PhD candidate in Biostatistics at the BU School of Public Health, has developed a groundbreaking R package that brings Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) to tabular data, the first comprehensive tool of its kind available in the R programming language. VAEs are a […]
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    Bostonia Features BU Sloan Fellows

    March 27, 2014
    Institute Fellow, Sharon Goldberg, was featured as one of the two BU faculty members named as 2013 Sloan Fellow. As a network security researcher, Goldberg studies the global internet, and more specifically, the ways networks worldwide connect to one another. She uses tools from theory (such as cryptography) and networking (such as measurement, modeling, and […]
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    Bostonia: MOC Pioneering a Cloud Mall

    June 2, 2014
    With Massachusetts pledging $3 million in state support, BU leaders in April announced plans for development of a path-breaking computing cloud that could spur economic growth and technology innovation. The plan calls for hosting the MOC at the MGHPCC data center, where it would tap the computational power of BU and its MOC partners, who […]