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    Using Reinforcement Learning to Rationally Reprogram Multicellular Decision Making

    September 30, 2019
    FALL 2019 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Allyson Sgro, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, ENG Co-PI: Pankaj Mehta, Associate Professor of Physics, CAS Track: HIC & Artificial Intelligence Research While standard modeling techniques can describe and predict biological behaviors, they fall short of offering strategies for manipulation and reprogramming. The team hypothesizes that single cells have algorithms for […]
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    Varia Co-Authors ‘Lawfare’ Article Calling for Truce in Crypto-Wars

    June 11, 2018
    In a piece published in the national security blog Lawfare, BU cryptography researcher Mayank Varia makes the case for a "crypto-armistice" between the government and the technology community as a way to both repair a fractious relationship and increase the likelihood that a viable long-term solution to the privacy versus security debate can be cooperatively […]
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    Vassilis Digalakis Jr. Converges AI Tools and Operations Research to Tackles AI’s Biggest Flaws

    April 26, 2026
    By Brendan Galvin In today’s rapidly changing artificial intelligence landscape, Assistant Professor Vassilis Digalakis Jr. (Questrom (OTM) is building a different kind of future.  Digalakis is a Faculty Affiliate of Hariri Institute and the Center for Information & Systems Engineering. His research focuses on trustworthy AI: how to design AI systems that behave reliably, transparently, […]

  • Vijaya Kolachalama’s Algorithm Makes Advancements In Alzheimer’s Detection

    May 5, 2020
    Different people have different symptoms, and so it is hard to get a precise diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. It is even harder to predict the likelihood of an individual afflicting the disease. Vijaya Kolachalama, an Assistant Professor at Boston University School of Medicine and Junior Faculty Fellow and Research Fellow at the Hariri Insititute for Computing, was featured […]
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    Virtual Seminars Come to the Institute

    April 2, 2020
    As we transition to a virtual environment, the Hariri Institute is committed to bringing together researchers and faculty in an effort to maintain an engaged community.  This spring, we look forward to hosting virtual seminars and events. As a staff, we have been trained to organize, host, and execute virtual seminars and workshops of all […]

  • Vivek Goyal Named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow

    April 11, 2024
    The award recognizes Goyal’s groundbreaking work in computational imaging, and many contributions to the fields of signal processing and information science By Maureen Stanton Vivek K Goyal, a Boston University engineering professor, author, and inventor, has been named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow. Now in its 99th year, Guggenheim Fellowships are conferred to individuals who have […]
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    Wanted: Experts in Computing for Computational Science

    March 20, 2012
    The world is building more and more supercomputers, and collecting more and more data to analyze with them. But there is a serious shortage of people with the right skills in computing and computational science and engineering to use them: "With the world’s fastest computers capable of processing quadrillions of calculations per second and the […]
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    Watson Will See You Now!

    September 12, 2011
    IBM's supercomputer system, best known for trouncing the world's best "Jeopardy!" players on TV, is being tapped by one of the nation's largest health insurers to help diagnose medical problems and authorize treatments. WellPoint Inc., which has 34.2 million members, will integrate Watson's lightning speed and deep health care database into its existing patient information, […]

  • WBUR reports BU researchers have developed an AI method for early prediction of Alzeimer’s disease

    July 9, 2024
    Audio and transcription below: (WBUR, Boston - June 26, 2004) -- Researchers at Boston University are exploring ways to use artificial intelligence to predict someone’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s. They ran voice recordings from the massive multi-year Framingham Heart Study through an AI model. The technology was able to detect small differences in people’s speech […]
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    We Stand Together…

    January 29, 2017
    "All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family" -- Mohandas K. Gandhi Dinner & Conversation In uncertain times, resilience comes from deepening our connections to each other. The Hariri Institute invites you to join an informal gathering to show solidarity and build community among students, faculty, staff, and friends of the Institute. When: 5:00PM – 7:00PM, Tuesday, January 31, […]