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  • Can understanding social needs help researchers predict COVID-19 outcomes?

    May 10, 2022
    Focused Research Program faculty members develop a predictive model for hospitalizations, disease severity, and death using dynamic vital signs and social determinants of health. BY GINA MANTICA Models that predict how COVID-19 affects patients are often biased due to the disproportionate effects of the disease on people of color in the United States. But researchers […]

  • Can WhatsApp Messages Be Secure and Encrypted—but Traceable at the Same Time?

    August 23, 2022
    A new program could strengthen the security and privacy of WhatsApp, Signal, and other end-to-end encrypted messaging apps and help them better moderate online abuse Cryptographers love an enigma, a problem to solve—and this one has it all. Indestructible codes, secret notes, encryption, and decryption. Here’s the puzzle: someone wants to send a secure message […]
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    Canetti wins RSA Conference award for contributions to cryptography

    April 19, 2018
    RSA Conference, one of the world’s largest professional gatherings for information technology security, announced Tuesday that Boston University computer science professor Ran Canetti is one of five laureates honored this year for substantive contributions to the field. Canetti, who directs the Center for Reliable Information Systems and Cyber Security within the Rafik B. Hariri Institute […]

  • Cansu Demirkiran Selected as 2024 ML and Systems Rising Star

    June 4, 2024
    Boston University College of Engineering PhD candidate Cansu Demirkiran was selected as one of the 2024 Machine Learning and Systems Rising Stars. Demirkiran is a final year doctoral candidate at the Intergrated Circuits and Systems Group led by Ajay Joshi (ENG, ECE), which focuses on developing novel architectures and circuits to design low-power, high-performance, and […]
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    Cara Stepp

    June 29, 2015
    Cara Stepp has been selected as an Institute Junior Faculty Fellow beginning in fall 2014. She directs the STEPP LAB for Sensorimotor Rehabilitation Engineering and is an assistant professor in the Departments of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences and Biomedical Engineering at BU. She received the S.B. in Engineering Science from Smith College, S.M. in Electrical Engineering […]
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    Cara Stepp, Junior Faculty Fellow, Receives NSF CAREER Award

    January 14, 2016
    Cara Stepp, Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow and assistant professor of biomedical engineering and speech, language and hearing sciences, and Douglas Holmes, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and materials science & engineering, have won the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award in recognition of their outstanding research and teaching capabilities. As a […]

  • Cars that learn how to drive themselves by watching other cars

    June 30, 2021
    BY GINA MANTICA Self-driving cars are powered by machine learning algorithms that require vast amounts of driving data in order to function safely. But if self-driving cars could learn to drive in the same way that babies learn to walk - by watching others around them and trying to mimic certain movements - they would […]
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    CCS Seminar Features David Hutchinson, “Modelling Quantum Systems – Highlights from the Dodd-Walls Centre, New Zealand’s new national Centre of Research Excellence”

    August 3, 2015
    The Boston University Center for Computational Science will be hosting a seminar featuring Professor David Hutchinson from University of Otago,  Dunedin, New Zealand . Modelling Quantum Systems - Highlights from the Dodd-Walls Centre, New Zealand's new national Centre of Research Excellence 12:00 PM on August 5th, 2015 Physics Research Building, 3 Cummington Mall, Room 595 Abstract: After a decade […]
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    CCS Seminar Features Yoshitaka Tanimura, “Simulating, Modeling, and Analyzing Two-Dimensional THz-Raman Spectroscopies”

    February 12, 2015
    The Boston University Center for Computational Science will be hosting a seminar featuring Professor Yoshitaka Tanimura from the Department of Chemistry at Kyoto University, Japan. Simulating, Modeling, and Analyzing Two-Dimensional THz-Raman Spectroscopies 12:00 PM on March 24, 2015 Physics Research Building, 3 Cummington Mall, Room 595 Abstract: Understanding dynamics in complex environments of molecular liquids and biological […]
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    Characterization of Cognitive State from Signatures of Digital Data

    June 11, 2018
    Spring 2018 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE PI: Thomas Perls, Professor, Genetics, Medicine, MED Co-PI(s): Paola Sebastiani, Professor, Biostatistics, SPH; Stacy Andersen, Assistant Professor, Medicine, MED   The Challenge Though the numerous states of mind are known, pointing out the specific person’s state of mind at any particular moment is somewhat challenging. Only after establishing a person’s […]