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    Health Care at the Intersection of Economics and Computer Science

    July 8, 2015
    SPRING 2012 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES Benjamin Lubin (Information Systems, Quaestorum School of Business) and Keith Marzilli Ericson (Markets, Public Policy, and Law, Quaestorum School of Business) The operation of the health care system in the United States is extraordinarily complex, with many interactions among patients, doctors, insurers, governments, and other parties. This complexity also generates an extraordinary […]
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    Identifying Experts and Effective Teams of Experts

    July 8, 2015
    SPRING 2012 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES  Evimaria Terzi (Computer Science, College of Arts and Sciences) and Nachiketa Sahoo (Information Systems, Questrom School of Business) In many settings, individuals form teams and work together in order to complete a project. For example, within companies groups of employees perform tasks collectively in groups. Similarly, scientists merged their skills […]
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    The Levantine Ceramics Project: Phase II

    July 8, 2015
    SPRING 2013 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE Andrea Berlin (Archaeology, College of Arts and Sciences) In the field of archaeology we are drowning in data, and that creates an unusual problem. In most fields, more data is a good thing. In theory that’s true for archaeology as well. In practice, however, keeping up with ever-increasing amounts of […]
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    Privacy Year

    July 8, 2015
    SPRING 2013 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES Sharon Goldberg, Ran Canetti, Leonid Reyzin (Computer Science, College of Arts and Sciences) The Privacy Year, funded by HIC, RISCS, Penn State, and Harvard’s CRCS, brought three top data privacy researchers, Kobbi Nissim, Sofya Raskhodnikova, and Adam Smith, to BU for AY 2013-14. The main focus was research about data […]
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    To Tweet or to Yelp: Accountability and Choice in Online Consumer Feedback

    July 8, 2015
    SPRING 2012 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE John Byers (Computer Science, College of Arts and Sciences) This work studied the interplay between consumers and an emerging class of firms that generate economic value in whole or in part by enabling users to share their experiences through comments, reviews and online feedback, notably Yelp, Twitter, TripAdvisor and Airbnb. […]
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    Network Inference and Perturbation to Study Chemical-Mediated Cancer Induction

    July 7, 2015
    SPRING 2014 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE Stefano Monti (Computational Biomedicine, School of Medicine) The proposed project is aimed at integrating multiple genomic data types (primarily, gene expression and high-throughput “cell painting”) to develop predictive models of chemical carcinogenicity based on network reconstruction and differential analysis approaches, toward the identification of a chemical's mechanism(s) of cancer induction. […]
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    Computational Synthetic Biological Microfluidics

    July 7, 2015
    SPRING 2014 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE Douglas Densmore (Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering) This project is investigating the creation of a complete computational microfluidic design ecosystem, which a software workflow to decompose specific Models of Computation (MoCs) such as data flow, process networks, finite state machines, and synchronous reactive models into primitive biological components that […]
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    Statistical Models and Computational Methods for Community Detection in Large Networks

    July 7, 2015
    SPRING 2014 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES Luis Carvalho (Mathematics & Statistics, College of Arts and Sciences) and Dino Christenson (Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences) The main research goal is to investigate a fully novel statistical methodology to model networks and infer communities using innovative computational methods that formally address these issues in large networks […]
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    Computational Neuroimaging Analysis Of Language And Cognitive Control Networks: Mining The Human Connectome Project Data Set

    July 7, 2015
    SPRING 2014 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES Jason Bohland (Health Services, Sargent College) and David Somers (Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences) The overall goal of this project is to develop, test and validate computational methods for defining canonical brain networks and for identifying them in individual brains. Although Professors Bohland and Somers have known each other […]
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    Sam Ling

    July 6, 2015
    Sam Ling was selected as an Institute Junior Faculty Fellow beginning in fall 2015. He is an assistant professor in Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University. Dr. Ling directs the Visual Neuroscience lab, which aims to understand how the human visual system optimizes itself for the task at hand. Towards that end, his research […]