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
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.
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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.
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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
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.
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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
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-…
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
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
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
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
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