{"id":5,"date":"2011-01-26T09:03:40","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T13:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/home\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T10:50:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T14:50:30","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/","title":{"rendered":"Homepage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Computing and data have emerged as a currency of scientific endeavors opening the door for paradigm shifts in almost every scientific, engineering, and professional discipline.\u00a0With this future in mind, and sitting in the crossroads of the BU community, the\u00a0Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science &amp; Engineering was established. The Institute initiates, catalyzes, and propels collaborative, interdisciplinary research and training initiatives for a better society by promoting discovery and innovations through the use of computational and data-driven approaches, and, advances in the science of computing inspired by challenges in arts and sciences, engineering, and management disciplines.<br \/>\n<\/br><\/p>\n<h4>Announcing the New Junior Faculty Fellows<\/h4>\n<p>The Hariri Institute for Computing at Boston University is pleased to announce its 2015 cohort of Junior Faculty Fellows: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/profile\/leila-agha-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leila Agha<\/a> (Markets, Public Policy and Law), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/profile\/manuel-egele\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manuel Egele<\/a> (Electrical &amp; Computer Engineering), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/profile\/kirill-korolev\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kirill Korolev<\/a> (Physics), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/profile\/neha-gondal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Neha Gondal<\/a> (Sociology), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/profile\/lorenzo-orecchia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lorenzo Orecchia <\/a>(Computer Science), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/profile\/sam-ling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sam Ling<\/a> (Psychological &amp; Brain Sciences).<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/hic\/files\/2015\/08\/JFF2015Banner-636x191.jpg\" alt=\"JFF2015Banner\" width=\"636\" height=\"191\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7881\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2015\/08\/JFF2015Banner-636x191.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2015\/08\/JFF2015Banner-1024x308.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2015\/08\/JFF2015Banner-768x231.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2015\/08\/JFF2015Banner-1536x462.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2015\/08\/JFF2015Banner-2048x617.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computing and data have emerged as a currency of scientific endeavors opening the door for paradigm shifts in almost every scientific, engineering, and professional discipline.\u00a0With this future in mind, and sitting in the crossroads of the BU community, the\u00a0Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science &amp; Engineering was established. The Institute initiates, catalyzes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4210,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/landing.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":59,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38544,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/38544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}