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  Spatial Dynamics of Private Land Conservation and Use: Towards Large-Scale Hypothesis Testing

  June 10, 2018

  FALL 2018 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE PI: Christoph Nolte, Assistant Professor, Earth & Environment Co-PI: Curtis Woodcock, Professor, Earth & Environment What is the Challenge? Voluntary private land protection is the single largest driver for the expansion of conserved land in the United States today, but significant concerns exist regarding its cost-effectiveness. Empirical studies have not […]
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  Towards Data Driven, Inexpensive and Reusable Sensors for Water Contamination Detection

  June 10, 2018

  FALL 2018 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE PI: Renato Mancuso, Assistant Professor, Computer Science Co-PI: Xi Ling, Assistant Professor, Chemistry What is the Challenge? Drinking water contamination is, sadly, a surprisingly widespread issue. According to a recently published report [1], nearly 77 million people in the U.S. --- about a quarter of the total population --- in 2015 […]
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  The China Christian Database: An Essential Digital Tool for the Cartography and Prosopography of Christianity in China

  June 10, 2018

  SPRING 2018 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE PI: Daryl Ireland, Research Assistant, Professor of Mission What is the Challenge? The study of Christianity in China is often met with the question, “What does Beijing have to do with Jerusalem?” Nationalist historiography and post-colonial theory have tended to relegate Christianity to the status of “foreign,” thus rendering it […]
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  Machine Learning for Multi-Functional Kirigami Metamaterials

  June 10, 2018

  SPRING 2018 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE PI: David Campbell, Professor, Physics, CAS What is the Challenge? Atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials such as graphene and MoS2 have been studied extensively due to their exceptional physical properties (mechanical strength, electrical and thermal conductivity, etc.). Recently, the PIs were among the first to investigate “kirigami”-based 2D metamaterials. These […]
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  Frontier Culture and Modern Politics in the U.S.: A Data-Driven Approach

  June 10, 2018

  SPRING 2018 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE PI: Samuel Bazzi, Assistant Professor, Economics Co-PI: Martin Fiszbein, Professor, Economics What is the Challenge? What is the influence of the American Frontier on historical culture and modern politics in the United States? New data shows that the American frontier fostered individualism and opposition to redistribution. In particular, previous work shows that these attributes, […]
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  Institute Junior Faculty Fellows, Research Awardees and AIR Core member Receive Tenure

  May 22, 2018

  The institute is pleased to announce that Junior Faculty Fellow Cara Stepp, Hariri Research Awardees Marié Abe and Joanna Davidson and AI Research Initiative Core Faculty member Kate Saenko are 4 of 24 faculty members on the Charles River Campus promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure. Ranging from fields such as social and health sciences, information systems, musicology, mathematics, marketing, […]
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  Hariri Institute Co-Sponsors 2018 Computational Immunology Symposium

  May 22, 2018

  Please join us for the 2018 Computational Immunology Symposium: Focus on B cells. The event features speakers at the forefront of the field to share their insights into exciting new opportunities.
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  “Grounding Natural Language Phrases in Images and Video”

  May 10, 2018

  BU postdoctoral associate <strong>Bryan Plummer</strong> introduces an approach to <strong>improving many image-language tasks</strong> where neural networks learn a set of models, each of which capture a different concept which is useful in the task.
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  BU cryptography research cited in The Hill, other outlets on privacy vs. security debate

  May 7, 2018

  Research published earlier this year by Mayank Varia offers a prototype of an alternative approach that provides access in ‘exceptional’ cases but keeps user privacy intact.
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  Institute Sponsors 5 Student Poster Sessions This May

  April 27, 2018

  The Hariri Institute is excited to sponsor student poster sessions and presentations for four courses this semester: Data Mechanics, Computational Fabrication, Mobile App Development, Cyber Physical Systems and Data Science.