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.” spr.ly/63323BBEUaS

Catch up on upcoming events, faculty highlights, and new opportunities from across the Hariri Institute in our April newsletter: spr.ly/63323B6Ar7b

Partnering with @buhaririinstitute.bsky.social, our infectious disease experts provided the content inputs needed to train PandemIQ Llama LLM. By training the LLM on pandemic-specific text, we've created a domain-adapted foundation model specifically designed for high-stakes health intelligence.

Are you looking to publish your research? Join researchers from around the globe for the #FreeWebinar IEEE Authorship and #OpenAccess Symposium: Tips and Best Practices to Get Published from IEEE Editors! 📅 12 May 2026 ⏰ 9:30 a.m. ET 🔗 https://loom.ly/WdeZt6o#FreeWebinar#OpenAccess#IEEEXplore #AcademicSky #Research

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/63325B6NJOT

Huge congrats to our Director, @ypaschalidis.bsky.social, on his induction into the @aimbe-official.bsky.social College of Fellows! 🎓 From federated learning to global disease surveillance, Yannis is bridging the gap between technical innovation and human health. spr.ly/63324B62rzY

Join us Thursday, April 16, as Ming Chen presents a Center for Computational Science Seminar on how integrating physical principles into AI models can improve accuracy, data efficiency, and transferability in AI-for-science frameworks: spr.ly/63320B6Lja0

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. spr.ly/63323B6IOST

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/63329B6LZUv

Is there life beyond PCA? Find out at the ECE/Hariri Institute Seminar with Bruno Sinopoli — presenting linear methods for dimensionality reduction that rival autoencoders, kernel PCA, and UMAP. Details: spr.ly/63321B6xRyS

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/63324B6aPB4

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/63323B6gLFc

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/63322B6ndB4

Can the United States' constitutional democracy survive another 250 years in the age of AI?Catherine Powell, a Eunice Hunton Carter Distinguished Research Scholar & Professor of Law—will connect algorithmic discrimination, surveillance, and constitutional democracy. spr.ly/63324B6njHC

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! Learn more: spr.ly/63321B6RCOZ

🔐 Join us Wednesday, March 18 for a CyberAlliance Seminar with Morgan Weiland, 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/63322hCY8m

@bostonu.bsky.social’s Evidence-Based AI in Learning (EVAL) Industry Collaborative today announced Amira Learning 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/63326h4sl0

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/63326hNE8K

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.

We're pleased to welcome four new faculty affiliates: Nikolaos Daskalakis and Gareth Morgan (@bumedicine.bsky.social), and Koichiro Shiba and Meredith Brooks (@busph.bsky.social)! Learn more about their research: spr.ly/63323h5xOt

🔐 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/63324h5vN0

Congratulations to @bostonu.bsky.social Brian DePasquale for being named a 2026 @sloanfoundation.bsky.social Research Fellow! This prestigious award recognizes the most promising early-career researchers in their fields. Read more: spr.ly/63321hb7xt

Congratulations to @bostonu.bsky.social's Allison Portnoy on receiving a 5-year NIH K01 award from NIAID. Her project will provide a country-specific framework to dynamically track RSV risk, transmission, and prevention efficacy across all age groups. spr.ly/63328h3tuu

🔐 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 @bostonu.bsky.social, 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/63322hJmZ8

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/63322h87ra @bostonu.bsky.social

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/63323C08od

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/63321C4CeS @busph.bsky.social

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/63323C08od

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/63324CrWRp @bumedicine.bsky.social

Season’s greetings to our extraordinary research community! Your creativity, collaboration, and dedication light the way for new discoveries with impact. Wishing you a joyful holiday season and a bright, inspiring New Year filled with possibilities. spr.ly/6332177CgL

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/633227cAzE

Networking and a pilot award opportunity await at the Discover Data Hub event! Register now to save your spot: spr.ly/633207cSCs. @busph.bsky.social

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/633237wXMt @csail.mit.edu

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/633277kpDP

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/633267TyxC @bumedicine.bsky.social

Vast genomic datasets hide the rules of gene regulation that drive development and disease. Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow Pawel Przytycki develops interpretable computational models to reveal those rules—and make sense of the noncoding genome.

By popular demand, next Wednesday’s FRP Symposium is going virtual! Join us October 29, 12:15 on Zoom to explore how experts in AI, medicine & public health are tackling bias in breast cancer detection. Register here: spr.ly/63321Ah9TZ #AI #HealthEquity #FRPSymposium

🎀 October is #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth. Join us Oct. 29 for our research symposium convening experts in #AI, imaging, medicine & public health who will share advances in AI-driven early detection and equitable care. ➡️ Learn more & register: tinyurl.com/5xkpdkjm #BreastCancerResearch

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Ready to use your data skills to advance health equity? Join us on October 18th for the School of Public Health Hackathon for Health Equity, hosted at the Hariri Institute! Register now to secure your spot: spr.ly/63326AtLuq

Join us 10/29 for a Focused Research Program symposium that will bring together experts in AI, medical imaging, clinical medicine, and public health to share advances in AI-driven early detection and equitable care. spr.ly/63323AtxxB

Honoring those who make a difference every day—congrats to Kristen Dionne, Katherine D'Angelo, Nancy Clinton, Pujan Paudel, and Asad Malik on their accomplishments at this year's Community Recognition Awards! Thank you for celebrating with us. Read more: spr.ly/63327AcbWF

Our FY25 Annual Report is now available on our website! This year, our community of more than 440 faculty affiliates, students, and partners advanced interdisciplinary computing and AI research with impact across health, science, and society. spr.ly/63322A5IFI

"How will self-driving labs transform materials science? Find out at BU's Materials Day 2025—where top experts and innovators in automation, AI, and engineering collaborate for real-world impact. Register here: spr.ly/63324ArGCy"

⏰ Registration closes tomorrow. Take advantage of the chance to transform k-12 student learning today: spr.ly/63329AbF9l This event is organized by our AI and Education Initiative's EVAL Industry Collaborative and MIT. @olaozpal.bsky.social