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    Convergence & Collaboration Around Cloud Computing, Data Security, and AI Event

    October 6, 2020
    On September 30th, Boston University’s Office of Research hosted an event spotlighting the Hariri Institute for Computing and Researchers focusing on Cloud computing, secure and private computation, and artificial intelligence (AI) that are shaping the landscape around computational and data-driven research. The Come Together, Right Now: Convergence & Collaboration Around Cloud Computing, Data Security, and AI event, gave the Boston […]
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    Hariri Faculty Affiliate Carol Neidle Awarded through NSF Convergence Accelerator

    October 6, 2020
    Hariri Faculty Affiliate Carol Neidle received an NSF award through the NSF Convergence Accelerator program. This is a collaboration with Principal Investigators Dimitris Metaxas and Mariapaola D’Imperio of Rutgers University and Matt Huenerfauth of Rochester Institute of Technology. These researchers were awarded almost $1 million, with the money going towards the development of “Data & AI Methods for Modeling Facial Expressions in Language with Applications to Privacy […]
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    Hariri Institute Announces 2020 Junior Faculty Fellows and Graduate Student Fellows

    October 2, 2020
    On Thursday, October 1st, the Hariri Institute introduced the newly appointed Fall 2020 Junior Faculty Fellows and Graduate Student Fellows. The twelve new fellows represent various disciplines from across different Boston University schools and colleges. The Institute is excited to engage with these new fellows as they reach new heights in their research, both here […]
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    Understanding and Anticipating Activities

    October 1, 2020
    Last week, Professor Dr. Juergen Gall led a talk about the aspects of video understanding. He began speaking about holistic video understanding, where a video can be categorized by the activity as well as other tags that can describe scenes or attributes of video. He goes on to describe a multi-stage temporal convolutional network, which […]
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    Kate Saenko’s talk at BU Alumni Weekend 2020

    September 23, 2020
    It’s that time of year again! BU Alumni Weekend ‘Reimagined’ 2020 is coming up and as part of virtual Alumni Weekend, Associate Professor of Computer Science Kate Saenko is giving this year’s lecture on “Overcoming Dataset Bias in Artificial Intelligence.” The annual Gerald and Deanne Gitner Family College of Arts & Sciences Lecture is designed […]

  • 2020 Junior Faculty Fellow: Emma Lejeune awarded Career Development Professorship

    September 22, 2020
    We are thrilled to announce that our 2020 Junior Faculty Fellow, Emma Lejeune just received the David R. Dalton Career Development Professorship. Emma is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the College of Engineering. She received her doctorate and master’s in civil and environmental engineering from Stanford University and her bachelor’s degree from Cornell […]
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    Eric Kolaczyk offers a point of view on COVID-19 modeling in The Brink

    September 11, 2020
    Over the past a few months, universities have been trying their best to provide a normal experience for students in light of a global pandemic. Eric Kolaczyk, the Director of the Hariri Institute, has been working alongside researchers on campus to develop mathematical and computational model of BU’s campus to guide the University’s reopening plan […]
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    Research Days US 2020

    August 26, 2020
    Red Hat Research Days US 2020 are a series of virtual conversations about research and innovations in open source. An initiative organized by Red Hat, and open to researchers, developers, students, and others (with no-cost registration),  Research Days provide researchers, technologists, and students an opportunity to collectively discuss research developments that have the potential to […]
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    Institute Community Members Receive NSF CAREER Awards

    August 17, 2020
      The Hariri Institute for Computing is proud to announce that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a large number of faculty associated with the Institute the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award. Being one of the most prestigious awards for junior researchers and data scientists in the nation, the NSF CAREER Award […]
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    BU’s Faculty To serve on Advisory Committee for The Federal Government

    August 3, 2020
      The federal data strategy is used by the Federal Government to create a 10-year vision on how to accelerate the use of data to support their mission, promote democracy and serve the public while using security measures to protect privacy and confidentiality. The federal data strategy focuses on establishing an integrated data infrastructure with […]