{"id":18554,"date":"2019-11-01T16:18:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T20:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/?p=18554"},"modified":"2019-11-04T08:30:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T13:30:52","slug":"azer-bestavros-announced-as-associate-provost-for-computing-and-data-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/2019\/11\/01\/azer-bestavros-announced-as-associate-provost-for-computing-and-data-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"Azer Bestavros Announced as Associate Provost for Computing and Data Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to share with the Hariri Institute community and beyond, the appointment of <a href=\"http:\/\/azer.bestavros.net\">Azer Bestavros<\/a> as the Inaugural Associate Provost for Computing and Data Sciences at Boston University.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Bestavros is the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Founding Director of BU\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/\">Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science &amp; Engineering<\/a>, and Chair of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/datascience\/\">BU Data Science Initiative<\/a>. With his vision of cross-disciplinary research, the Institute has been at the forefront of computational, data-driven initiatives within the university and beyond.\u00a0A member of the BU faculty since 1991 and past chair of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\">Computer Science<\/a>, Professor Bestavros is recognized for his research in<span>\u00a0<\/span>networking and distributed systems, most recently focusing on development, and real-world deployment of scalable secure Multi-Party Computation in support of privacy-preserving big-data analytics.<\/p>\n<p>In his new role as Associate Provost for Computing and Data Sciences, Professor Bestavros will work closely with Provost Morrison, senior academic leaders, and faculty in establishing the policies, operating principles, and strategy of the Faculty of Computing &amp; Data Sciences.\u00a0Slated to be housed in the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2019\/center-for-computing-and-data-sciences-approval\/\">Computing &amp; Data Sciences Building<\/a><span>,<\/span> this new unit will enable BU to build a collaborative and interdisciplinary interface between our traditional academic units and the faculty and students interested in the methodological and applied dimensions of computing and data sciences. Professor Bestavros will lead the unit and serve as a member of the Council of Deans.<\/p>\n<p>Please join us in congratulating Azer on his appointment and wishing him well in this important new role as Associate Provost for Computing and Data Sciences!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/hic\/files\/2019\/11\/Appointment-of-Professor-Azer-Bestavros-as-Associate-Provost-for-Computing-Data-Sciences-\u2013-11-1-19.pdf\">Full Press Release<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/33eSiHV\">BU Today Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to share with the Hariri Institute community and beyond, the appointment of Azer Bestavros as the Inaugural Associate Provost for Computing and Data Sciences at Boston University. Professor Bestavros is the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Founding Director of BU\u2019s Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8550,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11716],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18554"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18558,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18554\/revisions\/18558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}