Research at the Hariri Institute brings together experts across disciplines to advance computing and data-driven discovery for real-world impact. Explore the breadth of our research and the collaborations driving innovation at Boston University.

Research Areas

Impact Areas

1013 result(s) found.

  • Default image

    Samuel Bazzi

    June 29, 2015
    Samuel Bazzi has been selected as an Institute Junior Faculty Fellow beginning in fall 2014.  Samuel is an assistant professor of Economics and a development economist with a Ph.D. in Economics from University of California, San Diego in 2013. He currently works with large-scale administrative datasets to study topics at the intersection of labor and macroeconomics. […]
  • Default image

    Mark Kramer, Institute Former Junior Fellow, wins NSF CAREER Award

    June 25, 2015
    Former Institute Junior Faculty Fellow Mark Kramer, Associate Professor in Mathematical Neuroscience at BU College of Arts and Sciences, has won a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for his work in better understanding the brain mechanisms that drives seizure in people with epilepsy. He is the third member of the College of Arts & Sciences […]
  • Default image

    Ksenia Bravaya

    June 24, 2015
    Ksenia Bravaya has been selected as an Institute Junior Faculty Fellow beginning in fall 2014. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at BU, which she joined in 2013. Professor Bravaya received her Ph.D. in Theoretical and Computational Quantum Chemistry from the Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2008. Professor Bravaya’s research aims […]
  • Default image

    Institute’s MOC Project Students Showcased Novel Open Source “Internet of Things” (IoT) Solutions at Cisco Live! San Diego

    June 23, 2015
    Boston University (BU) students displayed novel “Smart Cities” apps in the “DevNet Zone for IoT,” hosted by Cisco at its annual Cisco Live! event held in San Diego on June 10-11.  The BU apps provide visualizations of mobile device positions on interactive maps of both indoor facilities and aerial/satellite imagery by combining signals acquired from disparate “things” including Bluetooth low energy (BLE) beacons, Internet routers, and GPS. Students who contributed […]
  • Default image

    What the T Can Tell Us about Health Inequalities

    June 23, 2015
    In an article featured on BU Today, Sandro Galea, Dean of Boston University’s School of Public Health and a professor of epidemiology, examines the health of Boston through public transportation. Although statistics might suggest that Boston is a healthy city, a paragon of urban health by having some of the highest life expectancy of any US city […]
  • Default image

    Institute Fellow Sharon Goldberg’s Video on “Internet Insecurity” Featured on Science360.gov

    June 23, 2015
    In her video “Internet Insecurity”, Sharon Goldberg, Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Boston University College of Arts and Sciences, breaks down Border Gateway Protocol which she describes as “the glue that holds the internet together”. The video is picked up and featured on Science360.gov.  Watch the video here.
  • Default image

    Hariri Junior Fellow Douglas Densmore Launches the Nona Research Foundation

    June 23, 2015
    Douglas Densmore, Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow, Associate Professor at Boston University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, launched the Nona Research Foundation about a year ago as a 510(c)3 non-profit. Nona Research Foundation, Inc. (“NRF”) aims to help research using their software and other tools achieve advances and improvement in health and healthcare, energy production and storage, materials manufacture, protection of […]
  • Default image

    Border Gateway Protocol and insecurity

    June 4, 2015
    The “three-napkins protocol,” officially known as the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), was intended to be a quick fix, but it still governs how long-haul traffic flows through cyberspace. Yakov Rekhter and Kirk Lougheed created the Border Gateway Protocol in January 1989. While they were sketching their plan on three napkins for routing data across the […]
  • Default image

    Emily Ryan

    May 31, 2015
    Emily Ryan has been selected as an Institute Junior Faculty Fellow beginning in fall 2014.  Emily is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Division of Materials Science and Engineering at Boston University. She received her Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2009, where her dissertation research focused on […]
  • Default image

    Hariri Jr Fellow Doug Densmore (ENG) with PI Calin Belta (ENG) and team, secure $4.5M NSF CPS Frontier Award

    May 14, 2015
    PI Calin Belta (ENG) works with Co-PI Douglas Densmore (ENG), Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow; Vijay Kuma (UPenn); Ron Weiss (MIT), Director of the MIT Synthetic Biology Center; and members of SRI International earn five-year $4.5M NSF Cyber-Physical Systems Program Frontier award for research on engineering living cells.  "Our ultimate goal is to automate the entire process from engineering individual cells […]