This Tuesday, 9/29, Fuxin Li, Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at @oregonstate, will present "From Heatmaps to Structural and Counterfactual Explanations" as part of our Artificial Intelligence Research Initiative. This talk will be held in CDS 1101 from 2-3PM.spr.ly/6015BG97ef

Researchers from @BU_Tweets, @SpauldingRehab, @MassGenBrigham, @harvardmed, and @PSburnsurvivors along with @hicsail have developed LIBRE GO!, a smartphone app that allows burn survivors to assess their social recovery, monitor changes over time, and connect with evidence-based resources. Learn more: spr.ly/6014BG9NPn

Could the combination of data science and cosmology uncover one of the universe’s greatest mysteries? Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow Dillon Brout shares insight into dark energy and the need for convergent research in the field: spr.ly/6017BGurnt

Please join us in congratulating Deepti Ghadiyaram on her new role as the co-director of our Artificial Intelligence Research Initiative (AIR)! Deepti has been a core faculty member of AIR since summer of 2024 and will co-direct with Kate Saenko. Read more: spr.ly/6010BGJeSO

Please join us in welcoming Ian Westmacott, PhD as the new Director of the Boston University Software and Application Innovation Lab! Learn about Ian Westmacott here: spr.ly/6015B1ACwH

Congratulations to @BU_Tweets students Anand Sahu and Pridhi Balhara on winning the 2026 Merck in Silico Innovation Cup for AI Agents! spr.ly/6015B1aVZP

What if better AI for drug discovery isn’t about bigger models? New @BU_Tweets research shows that AI designed around the biology of antibodies can outperform much larger models—offering a new approach to antibody discovery. spr.ly/6012B1P2Yn

BU researchers Chuanfei Dong and Brian Kulis are part of a new @ENERGY Genesis Mission award. The Princeton-led collaboration will develop AI tools and a digital twin of FLARE to better understand magnetic reconnection, with applications to space weather and fusion. spr.ly/6014B16trQ

Boston University has been awarded nearly $20M from @NSF to help establish the National Cloud Lab Network—an AI-enabled system of programmable, remotely accessible self-driving laboratories that will transform scientific research and accelerate discovery. spr.ly/6016BESFug #AI #Research #CloudLabs

New @AmJPublicHealth editorial led by @BU_Tweets faculty Dr. Debbie Cheng makes the case that realizing AI's promise for health requires more than technical innovation—it requires public health leadership. spr.ly/6017BEZZgv @buexperts

In a new study published in npj Digital Medicine, Hariri Institute Faculty Affiliate Professor Swathi Kiran explores how a “digital twin” of a bilingual stroke survivor can predict their response to targeted speech therapy in each language. Learn more: spr.ly/6013BDLzgv

Join the Center for Computational Science on Friday, June 26 in CDS 1101 from 2 – 3:30 PM for a Visiting Researcher Seminar with Amartya Bose, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. spr.ly/6014BDdTsm

Congratulations to Keith Brown on being appointed Head of the Division of Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) at the College of Engineering, effective July 1, 2026. Read more: spr.ly/6013B8fPQU

Ph.D. Student Spotlight: Hariri Institute for Computing Graduate Student Fellows Tianle Chen Rosalie Gendron Ilker Isik Emily Kim Yulu Qin Learn more about their work: spr.ly/6012B8FrYe

Welcome 2026 Hariri Institute for Computing Junior Faculty Fellows! Meredith Brooks Wei-Lun (Harry) Chao Jacob Nudel Paul Stillman Boqing Gong Learn more about their work: spr.ly/6013B8FuIU

In their FRP, @BU_tweets Professors Daniel Segrè and Ilija Dukovski are creating a digital twin of cancer metabolism in 3D, enabling subsequent extensions of systematic studies of tumor growth dynamics, spatial heterogeneity and possible personalized therapeutic strategies. spr.ly/6013B8qkwZ

@BU_tweets Professors Stacy Andersen and Katherine Gifford aim to develop digital biomarkers that detect Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders by combining expertise in aging, neuropsychology, linguistics, biostatistics, engineering, data science, AI/ML, and computational methods. spr.ly/6015B8qOkB

@bu_tweets Professors Mark Howe and Venkatesh Saligrama are building a Neuro-AI community around multi-scale striatal learning by integrating neuromodulator recordings, voltage imaging, machine learning, and reinforcement-learning theory in their FRP. spr.ly/6016B8lKmK

FY27 Focused Research Programs Spotlight: "AI for Characterizing and Designing Biomolecular Interactions" Learn more about this FRP: spr.ly/6013B8Y3aS

A significant step forward for AI-enabled and convergent health research. DataHub, launched by @BU_Tweets Center for Health Data Science, helps researchers leverage health data—strengthening collaboration & accelerating discovery. spr.ly/6018B8Yr8C

Please join us in congratulating the award recipients of our FY27 Focused Research Programs and FY26 Junior Faculty and Graduate Student Fellows Programs! Learn more about the programs and recipients: spr.ly/6012B8ZEJ2

In an era where automation and "vibe coding" are reshaping how we build software, the Data Science Mentoring Circles program (DSMC) is reinforcing the vital role of the human element in data science. Thank you to the DSMC mentors who participated in this event! Read the insights here: spr.ly/6013BBA9bc

233 registrants. 30 multidisciplinary teams. Real biomedical challenges. Our recent MedAI hackathon brought together students and faculty from across Boston University to tackle lung cancer, Alzheimer’s, and kidney injury using real research data. Read the event recap here: spr.ly/6012BBIFSw @bumedicine @busph

New research from @BU_Tweets finds wash trading in major NFT exchanges: ~38% of trades and 60% of value show manipulation patterns. The study highlights need for stronger tools to detect suspicious activity and protect market integrity. Read more: bu.edu/hic/2026/05/12/study-…

Congratulations to Hariri Junior Faculty Fellow Dillon Brout for receiving the 2026 New Horizons in Physics Prize — one of the most coveted honors for early-career scientists and part of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation awards, widely known as the “Oscars of Science.” Read more: spr.ly/6011BBEUaU

Catch up on upcoming events, faculty highlights, and new opportunities from across the Hariri Institute in our April newsletter: spr.ly/6012B6Ar7w

BU SAIL won a $400K Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant to advance an open-source initiative making generative AI more reproducible, secure, and accessible across higher education. Building on a successful pilot, the project now moves toward a scalable, community-driven platform. spr.ly/6016B6NJOp

Huge congrats to our Director, Yannis Paschalidis, on his induction into the @AIMBE College of Fellows! 🎓 From federated learning to global disease surveillance, Yannis is bridging the gap between technical innovation and human health. spr.ly/6013B62rzc #BU #AI #Bioengineering #Innovation @busph @busystems @ecebostonu @BUexperts

Join us! On Thursday, April 16, Ming Chen will join us for a Center for Computational Science Seminar to discuss how integrating physical principles at inference time, during model design, and within model architectures can substantially improve the accuracy, data efficiency, and transferability of AI-for-science frameworks spr.ly/6011B6LjaF

Join us on April 15 for Marshall Van Alstyne’s CyberAlliance talk, "Using Markets to Curb Misinformation," exploring how market design and financial accountability mechanisms like Truth Warrants may reduce false claims without censorship or centralized moderation. 4:30–5:45 PM | LAW Faculty Lounge, 15th floor | spr.ly/6014B6IOSp

This Tuesday! Join us for a CISE/Hariri Institute Distinguished Seminar with Francesco Bullo, Distinguished Professor and Mosher endowed chair of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. spr.ly/6018B6LZUQ

Is there life beyond PCA? Find out at the ECE/Hariri Institute Seminar with Bruno Sinopoli (Arizona State University) — presenting linear methods for dimensionality reduction that rival autoencoders, kernel PCA, and UMAP. 📅 April 16, 11 AM–12 PM | CDS 1101 Details: spr.ly/6010B6xRyq

Today is Boston University's Giving Day! Give a gift to the Hariri Institute today to empower BU's AI, computing, and data science researchers: spr.ly/6013B6aPBN

Congrats to Manos Athanassoulis — named a 2025 IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributor. Fewer than 0.5% of IEEE CS members receive this recognition in a given year. spr.ly/6014B6gLFY

Welcome to our newest faculty affiliates at the Hariri Institute: Vassilis Digalakis Nathanael Fillmore Kinan Dak Albab Nese Lortlar Ünlü Read more about them here: spr.ly/6011B6ndBN

Can the United States' constitutional democracy survive another 250 years in the age of AI? Fordham's Catherine Powell — Eunice Hunton Carter Distinguished Research Scholar & Professor of Law — will connect algorithmic discrimination, surveillance, and constitutional democracy. BU, 3/25, 4:30 PM. spr.ly/6015B6njHh

Bill Freeman, a Thomas and Gerd Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT EECS, recently completed a 40-year-long project — a project he'll review at our Distinguished Speaker Seminar on Tuesday, March 24! This event is co-sponsored by the BU Artificial Intelligence Research (AIR) Initiative and the Hariri Institute. Learn more: spr.ly/6018B6RCOn

🔐 Join us Wednesday, March 18 for a CyberAlliance Seminar with Morgan Weiland, Assistant Professor of Communication Law at Boston University College of Communication, as she presents "Courtroom as Laboratory: How the Reno Litigation Produced Legal Facts and Knowledge about the Internet."

Join us for the MedAI Hack on April 10 & 11 as we tackle real biomedical problems using AI/ML on de-identified clinical datasets—imaging, EHR, genomics, and more. Limited spots and up to $10K in prizes! Register by April 3: spr.ly/6019hCY8c

@BU_Tweets’s Evidence-Based AI in Learning (EVAL) Industry Collaborative today announced @AmiraLearning as the winner of its inaugural EVAL EdTech Evaluation Challenge. Learn more about the challenge and the importance of independent evaluation in EdTech: spr.ly/6015h4slL

What's next for AI regulation after Europe's landmark AI Act? Join Professor Céline Castets-Renard on March 5, 4–5 PM at BU's Barrister's Hall for an insightful conversation on the future of AI regulation. spr.ly/6015hNE8J

This Wednesday! Join the Center for Computational Science as they co-sponsor a Greater Boston TheoChem Seminar with Connor Coley, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT Talk Title: Computer-aided synthesis planning: the basics & beyond Abstract: Much progress has been made in recent years toward the development of computer-aided synthesis planning (CASP) programs capable of recommending retrosynthetic pathways to molecules of interest. Modern programs make use of machine learning techniques to learn feasible retrosynthetic disconnections from databases of published organic reactions. In the first half of the talk, I will discuss the key components of CASP and the variety of approaches that have been taken by our group and others to address them. In the second half, I will focus on a couple of recent research directions we have undertaken to (i) improve our ability to ideate pathways for complex molecules, (ii) make recommended pathways more experimentally actionable, and (iii) critically evaluate the feasibility of proposed transformations.

We're pleased to welcome four new faculty affiliates: Nikolaos Daskalakis and Gareth Morgan (@BUMedicine), and Koichiro Shiba and Meredith Brooks (@BUSPH )! Learn more about their research: spr.ly/6014h5xOQ

🔐 Join us for the next session of the CyberAlliance Series on Wednesday, February 25! Elettra Bietti, Assistant Professor of Law and Computer Science at Northeastern University, will present. Read more: spr.ly/6015h5vNF

Congratulations to @BU_Tweets Brian DePasquale for being named a 2026 Sloan Research Fellow! This prestigious award recognizes the most promising early-career researchers in their fields. Read more: spr.ly/6014hb7xa

🌎 Congratulations to @BU_Tweets’s Allison Portnoy, Assistant Professor of Global Health at @BUSPH and Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow, on receiving a 5-year @NIH K01 award from @NIAIDNews. Her project will provide a country-specific framework to dynamically track RSV risk, transmission, and prevention efficacy across all age groups. spr.ly/6016h3tuO

🔐 Join us for the first session of the CyberAlliance Series on Wednesday, February 11 with Allison McDonald, Assistant Professor of Computing & Data Sciences.

It's the first Terrier Spirit Day at @BU_Tweets, and Hariri Institute is #ProudtoBU! We're thankful to be part of a University that's dedicated to community, excellence, and collaboration—especially convergent research. Read more about Terrier Spirit Days here: spr.ly/6019hJmkh

Introducing Terrier Spirit Days 🐾 A new monthly tradition to celebrate BU pride and build community across campus. 📅 First Thursday of every month 🎉 First-ever Spirit Day: February 5 Wear BU gear, red, or white, or show your spirit your own way. Everyone’s invited.

🔐 The CyberAlliance is starting the spring semester strong! Attend these events to learn from experts in computer science, law, business, and the social sciences! spr.ly/6014h87rI

Welcome back, Terriers! We have a great event coming up on 1/27. Our Artificial Intelligence Research (AIR) Initiative is hosting a talk with Shrimai Prabhumoye, Senior Research Scientist at @NVIDIA’s Applied Deep Learning Research Group and an Adjunct Professor at Boston University.

Machine learning meets R: Graduate Student Fellow Sarah Milligan’s new package brings variational autoencoders to tabular data—uncovering insights and creating synthetic datasets for researchers everywhere. Explore the breakthrough: spr.ly/6018C4Ceo

Call for Hariri Institute FRP Proposals! Elevate your research by applying for a Hariri Institute Focused Research Program. Pre-proposals are due 2/6/2025, eligible for BU Faculty only: spr.ly/6014C08oe

As we close out 2025, we’re already setting exciting plans in motion for 2026. Stay ahead of the curve—subscribe for exclusive updates, insights, and opportunities sent right to your inbox: spr.ly/6019CTrYD

Explore the intersection of AI, data science, and critical care at our event taking place on Wednesday, January 14th! Recommended for clinicians and faculty in engineering, biostatistics, and other related fields — register now: spr.ly/6013CrWRT

Wishing you a joyful Thanksgiving! This year, we’re especially grateful for our incredible community of faculty and student researchers, valued partners and dedicated staff. Your creativity and collaboration continue to drive our research forward and inspire meaningful impact.

Timely data drives quality research. Sarah Milligan, Hariri GSF & SPH PhD candidate, is combining synthetic data and ML to make data sharing faster and more secure. Learn more: spr.ly/60137cAz1

Networking and a pilot award opportunity await at the Discover Data Hub event! Register now to save your spot: spr.ly/60127cSCQ.

What if generative AI could invent designs that actually work in the real world? Minghao Guo reveals how “Hollywood Physics” grounds creativity in practicality at our next AIR Seminar—Nov 18, 2 PM. Details: spr.ly/60127wXMs

A prize package worth $150K, gold-standard research, and real impact—EVAL’s EdTech Challenge is here! Compete for independent validation of your AI tool with Boston University experts. Apply by Nov 17, 2025: spr.ly/60157kpD3

What’s the path to understanding Alzheimer’s disease? The data that captures everyday life — how people speak, sleep, move, and think. Huitong Ding, Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow, shares his research in our spotlight: spr.ly/60177Tyxh