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  • Connected Autonomous Vehicles communicating pedestrian crossing

    Autonomous Vehicles Steer Cities Into the Future

    February 10, 2026
    Insights from a “Nature” Interview with Professor Christos Cassandras Christos Cassandras, Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Head of the Division of Systems, and Hariri Institute Faculty Affiliate at Boston University, is helping shape the future of autonomous transportation through a vision of connected, cooperative vehicles. His research, highlighted in a recent Nature report, examines how connected […]
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    Hariri Institute Welcomes New Faculty Affiliates

    February 9, 2026
    The Hariri Institute is pleased to welcome an exceptional group of new faculty affiliates to our community: Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine faculty Nikolaos Daskalakis and Gareth Morgan, and School of Public Health faculty Koichiro Shiba and Meredith Brooks. Learn more about our new affiliates below. Nikolaos Daskalakis, MD, PhD, is a Professor at […]
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    Manos Athanassoulis Named IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributor

    February 6, 2026
    By Hariri Institute Staff Manos Athanassoulis, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Hariri Institute Faculty Affiliate, has been named a 2025 IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS) Distinguished Contributor. This honor recognizes sustained and impactful technical contributions to the computing profession, community, and humanity. The IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributor Recognition Program acknowledges members who have […]

  • 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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    How a Low-Cost Soft Robot Is Learning to Perform Surgery Inside a Beating Heart

    December 9, 2025
    By Brendan Galvin Researchers at Boston University have developed a low-cost soft robotic system capable of performing delicate procedures inside a living, beating heart, a setting that is far too dynamic for direct human manipulation. Led by Assistant Professor Tommaso Ranzani (ME, MSE, BME) the team demonstrated that a flexible, catheter-based robot can safely navigate and […]
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    Boston University’s Sarah Milligan Launches First Comprehensive R Package Bringing Variational Autoencoders to Tabular Data

    December 9, 2025
    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 […]
  • Yannis Paschalidis, Director of Hariri Institute, Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Founding Professor of Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences

    Large Language Models Advance Healthcare and Public Health

    December 1, 2025
    By Chloe de Leon, College of Engineering Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly transforming healthcare and public health, moving beyond buzzworthy tools into real-world clinical and research applications. Yannis Paschalidis, Hariri Institute Director and Distinguished Professor of Engineering, and his team at Boston University are at the forefront of that shift, using advanced AI systems […]
  • photo of Allison Portnoy, ScD, Assistant Professor of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health; Junior Faculty Fellow, Hariri Institute for Computing

    Junior Faculty Fellow Spotlight: Allison Portnoy, ScD, Boston University School of Public Health

    November 20, 2025
    Allison Portnoy, Assistant Professor of Global Health at the Boston University School of Public Health, develops innovative quantitative methods to improve population health. Her research connects public health policy, health equity, and quantitative methods, showing how vaccination impacts health and economic outcomes — and providing policy makers with actionable insights for real-world decisions. In this Q&A, […]
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    Modeling Better Public Health Decisions

    November 20, 2025
    Junior Faculty Fellow Spotlight: Allison Portnoy, Boston University School of Public Health By Hariri Institute Staff Allison Portnoy, Assistant Professor of Global Health at the Boston University School of Public Health, develops innovative quantitative methods to improve population health. Her research connects public health policy, health equity, and quantitative methods, showing how vaccination impacts health and […]
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    Advances in Synthetic Data Generation for Public Health Research 

    November 7, 2025
    By Maeve Smillie Graduate Student Fellow Spotlight: Sarah Milligan (SPH) The Hariri Institute welcomes Sarah Milligan as part of the 2025 Graduate Student Fellow cohort. Milligan is a PhD candidate in the Department of Biostatistics, where she is advised by Fatema Shafie Khorassani, assistant professor of biostatistics, and Janice Weinberg, professor of biostatistics. Building on […]