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  • Reflecting On One Year of MPOX Response Event Highlights

    September 5, 2023
    Story by BU Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (CEID) CEID hosted a hybrid event, “Reflecting on One Year of MPOX Response,” in partnership with BU’s Hariri Institute for Computational Sciences & Engineering on August 17th. The panel discussion, which was moderated by CEID Director, Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, featured opening remarks from Dr. Ashish Jha, Dean […]

  • Research in AI for Automotive and Distributed Systems Wins Recognition

    September 2, 2023
    By Hariri Institute Staff Papers from two projects which previously received Red Hat Collaboratory awards have been recognized for excellence at preeminent research conferences.  Scalable distributed systems “SREP: out-of-band sync of transaction pools for large-scale blockchains” won the Best Paper award at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC). The conference itself […]

  • Demystifying AI to Mitigate its Negative Consequences

    August 30, 2023
    Shlomi Hod (BU PhD candidate, CS) Leads Congressional Workshop on Legal, Ethical, and Societal Implications of Artificial Intelligence By Margaret Stanton, Hariri Institute for Computing The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has given pause due to rising concerns about privacy, bias, safety, and security. While many systems have been lauded for their positive impact, such […]

  • Chuanfei Dong Receives DOE Early Career Research Award

    August 30, 2023
    Hariri Institute Faculty Affiliate Chuanfei Dong is working to untangle the mysteries of plasma, and his efforts were recently recognized with a prestigious award from the US Department of Energy (DOE). Dong, an Assistant Professor of Astronomy at the College of Arts & Sciences at Boston University, is among 93 scientists selected by the DOE for […]

  • BU Dark Matter Researcher Wins Award to Drive “Extraordinary Contributions” to Experimental Physics

    August 23, 2023
    Dark matter might be one of the most important substances in the universe—the glue that stops stars flying away from each other and ripping galaxies apart. It’s also one of the most mysterious. It's proven so stubbornly hard to see that researchers can only guess at its existence. Boston University physicist and Hariri Institute faculty […]

  • BU-led Interdisciplinary Team Develops Data-driven Strategy for Early Alzheimer’s Assessment

    August 3, 2023
    Collaborating Institutions include University of California San Francisco, Mass General Hospital, and Lahey Hospital and Medical Center By Maureen Stanton and Gina DiGravio Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia, afflicting more than six million Americans today. By 2050, this number is projected to rise to nearly 13 million, with one in three seniors […]
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    Tereasa Brainerd Elected Fellow of the American Astronomical Society

    August 1, 2023
    By Hariri Institute Staff Tereasa Brainerd, professor of astronomy at the Boston University College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a Fellow of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), the largest professional organization of astronomers in the USA. Inductions into each class of Fellows is limited to at most 0.5% of the membership in any […]

  • $1.1 Million Awarded to Joint Study on Impacts of Data Centers in Norway’s Clean Energy Transition

    July 13, 2023
    As Norway strives to position itself as a hub for global digital infrastructure—building data centers for cloud storage and processing—questions about the benefits and tradeoffs of digitalization are being brought to the forefront of its sustainability policy. Now, through a government-backed initiative, the Research Council of Norway has awarded more than $1.1 million in funding […]

  • Debbie Cheng Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association

    June 25, 2023
    Debbie M. Cheng, professor of biostatistics at the Boston University School of Public Health, and faculty affiliate of the Hariri Institute, has been elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA). ASA Fellowship is one of the highest honors in the statistics profession.  The number of new fellows elected per year is limited to […]

  • Three Hariri Institute Faculty Affiliates Receive NSF CAREER Awards

    June 25, 2023
    By Maureen Stanton, Hariri Institute for Computing Hariri Institute Faculty Affiliates Renato Mancuso (CAS, Computer Science), Hadi Nia (ENG, Biomedical Engineering), and Alyssa Pierson (ENG, Mechanical Engineering) have each received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award. These NSF grants are among the most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic […]