{"id":88,"date":"2011-02-23T20:50:11","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T01:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/?page_id=88"},"modified":"2026-03-12T16:36:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:36:51","slug":"director-letter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/about-hic\/director-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Hariri Institute, Boston University’s largest research center"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yannis Paschalidis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It is impossible to imagine a time when Computing and Computational Science and Engineering was more central, not only to scientific and technological advances through research, but to every function of our society.<\/p>\n

The Hariri Institute is extremely well positioned to be a catalyst for interdisciplinary research in this broad field. The Institute is a federation, and through its Centers and Initiatives spans Artificial Intelligence (AI)<\/a>, computational science<\/a>, digital health<\/a>, computer systems and the cloud<\/a>, and cybersecurity<\/a>. Arguably, these areas reach every facet of modern life, impact the natural and biomedical sciences, usher an era of digital health, and through information systems security affect the very essence of our democracy.<\/p>\n

The Institute acts as a convergence accelerator where industry, such as the open-source software leader Red Hat, interfaces with academia. Through our own Software & Application Innovation Lab (SAIL)<\/a>, we support translational initiatives that bring academic ideas closer to production-ready systems. We are also very cognizant of the role that novel technological and algorithmic solutions can play to support diversity and inclusion and contribute to public good, supporting public-private partnerships such as the Boston Women\u2019s Workforce Council<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I invite you to browse through our website<\/a> and follow up with me or any of the Institute\u2019s Center and Initiative Directors or its vast collection of Fellows and Faculty Affiliates. You are also welcome to contact the Institute\u2019s administration<\/a> with any questions you may have about future events or seminars.<\/p>\n

Yannis Paschalidis<\/a>
\nDirector, Hariri Institute for Computing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is impossible to imagine a time when Computing and Computational Science and Engineering was more central, not only to scientific and technological advances through research, but to every function of our society. The Hariri Institute is extremely well positioned to be a catalyst for interdisciplinary research in this broad field. The Institute is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4210,"featured_media":0,"parent":2093,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88"}],"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=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39911,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88\/revisions\/39911"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}