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

🧬 Hariri Institute is proud to co-sponsor the AI Alliance Virtual Symposium: AI for Biomedical Research & Drug Discovery! 📅 Sept 29, 2025 | 9 AM–12:30 PM ET | Free & Virtual 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/yv5zvree

Join us Thursday, September 25th for an engaging Center for Computational Science Seminar with Shuzhou Li, Professor, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Nanyang Technological University! Learn more about this presentation: spr.ly/63320AZul2

"A new semester, new faces, and big ideas! Thank you to all who joined our Hariri Institute Welcome Back Event—where we honored our 2025 Junior Faculty Fellows, Graduate Student Fellows, and Community Award recipients. Here’s to an impactful year ahead! Learn more: spr.ly/63328AV6tq"

Save the date! On 10/15, Hariri Institute faculty will showcase their expertise at the @bostonu.bsky.social Office of Research's Research on Tap: AI for Life Sciences event. Register now to save your spot: spr.ly/63327ATxeV

Curious about the future of computing? Don’t miss Micah Adler, Visiting Scientist at MIT CSAIL, at the AIR Weekly Seminar on Sept. 23rd—where research meets real-world impact. Details: spr.ly/63327Ar8yz

What’s next in AI research? Hear from Jiafei Duan (PhD student, University of Washington) at BU’s Hariri Institute AIR Seminar tomorrow, Sept 16. A chance to connect with new ideas shaping tomorrow’s tech. Details: spr.ly/63323APU7D

Fascinating look at how #AI + human expertise are working together to track emerging diseases in real time. Learn more about the Biothreats Emergence, Analysis and Communications Network (BEACON) in this WBUR story.

What if we could slash the development time of new materials from decades to just years? Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow, James Chapman, tells us how this may be on the horizon with the help of AI models. spr.ly/63327AzwGZ

How do bacteria organize? 🦠 @bostonu.bsky.social researchers reveal in Cell Systems that colony shape, metabolism & nutrients drive growth, diversity & striking rings. Learn more: spr.ly/63321AGQbb @dsegre.bsky.social

Grad students, are you ready to turn your academic knowledge into a career in Data Science, Machine Learning, or Data Analytics? Join us at one of our Data Science Mentoring Circles (DSMC) info sessions! tinyurl.com/mvd6jtec

Learn and enjoy lunch! Join CEID for an engaging guest lecture this Monday. Be sure to register at the link below.

Did you know that as a BU student you can get a free ticket to Boston Blockchain Week? Learn from executives and thought leaders, network, and more. Register now with your BU email: tinyurl.com/4kr5rpft

A Decade's Battle on Dataset Bias: Are We There Yet? Join us this Monday, 8/4, from 2-3 PM as Zhuang Liu, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, gives an insightful presentation as part of our AIR Initiative. Learn more: spr.ly/63323fkXrh

In a world flooded with medical misinformation and jargon-heavy explanations, how can we make science more human? Vijaya Kolachalama and his team developed PodGPT—a GenAI tool trained on real conversations and built for impactful health communication. Read more: tinyurl.com/v5nbbv98

Continuing on our AI work for #Alzheimer's, in a paper just published we show how a trail making drawing test processed by AI can assess cognitive decline (tinyurl.com/2pkn2kp2). Joint with the Framingham Heart Study and students @buhaririinstitute.bsky.social and @bostonu.bsky.social

A BU-led team, headed by Professors Dima Kozakov and Sandor Vajda, won top honors at #CASP16 for accurately predicting multiprotein complexes, with support from Dr. Taras Patsahan (NAS of Ukraine). A big achievement for science and international collaboration! Learn more: http://spr.ly/633244Qyni#CASP16

Congratulations to Hariri Institute Core Faculty @mvaria.bsky.social and Northwestern University collaborators who were awarded Best Paper at ACM CS&Law 2025 for their work: 📄 “Murmurs of the Silenced: Secure Reporting of Misconduct Settlements” http://spr.ly/633234cJD1 @bostonu.bsky.social

A @bostonu.bsky.social -led team has been awarded a $3.1M NIH grant to advance AI-Powered COPD Research. Led by Kayhan Batmenghelich, the project aims to develop novel, interpretable biomarkers, overcoming critical limitations in current diagnostic tools. Learn more here: tinyurl.com/yu244b6t

🏆 A @bostonu.bsky.social-led team exposed a critical cloud hardware flaw at IEEE HOST 2025, earning 2nd place in the hardware hacking competition. Led by PhD candidate Chathura Rajapaksha (ECE), with Profs. Egele & Joshi + IBM & Red Hat researchers. 🔗 http://spr.ly/633234JPyW

Congratulations to our 2025 Graduate Student Fellows! They will be applying computational methods and tools to address complex challenges in diverse fields spanning neuroscience, biostatistics, computer science, physics, and systems engineering. Learn more: http://spr.ly/633274D1Uc

Congratulations to @BU_Computing 2025 Junior Faculty Fellows! These @BU_Tweets researchers are advancing computationally-driven research with impact across diverse sectors. 👏 Drs. Huitong Ding, Hongwan Liu, Allison Portnoy, and Pawel Przytycki! http://spr.ly/633224D1yY

Congratulations Michael Dietze, Professor, Earth & Environment, College of Arts & Sciences and Jonathan Huggins, Assistant Professor, Mathematics & Statistics, Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences, on their Focused Research Program Award (FRP)! Learn more: http://spr.ly/633204DDbs

Congratulations to @Boston University researchers Jennifer Beane-Ebel and Vijaya Kolachalama for their Hariri Institute Focused Research Program (FRP) Award: “AI-driven Accurate Detection Strategies for Aggressive Early-stage Lung Adenocarcinoma” http://spr.ly/633274D8nN

Congratulations to Charlene J. Ong, Ioannis (Yannis) Paschalidis, and Nicholas Cordella, on their Focused Research Program award! Learn more: http://spr.ly/633294BSLL

We’re proud to introduce our @bostonu.bsky.social Hariri Institute 2025 Fellows + 2026 FRP awardees! An inspiring group of researchers pushing interdisciplinary boundaries in computing, AI & data science at @BU_Computing 🔗 http://spr.ly/6332646KKe

What happens when you ask ChatGPT a question? Trillions of calculations—and rising energy demand. A @bostonu.bsky.social team is building a privacy-preserving system for data centers to predict, share, & optimize power use—supporting grid stability + sustainable AI. 🔗http://spr.ly/63322N4pvK

Boston University’s @briandepasquale.bsky.social wins the 2025 Scialog NCE award! His AI-driven team project with UCSD & MIT predicts how marine species respond to climate stress, building a shared framework to understand adaptation and protect ocean ecosystems. http://spr.ly/63322NaMi8

Science is making climate adaptation local, actionable, and effective. Zachary Popp’s research maps where climate, vulnerability, and health risks intersect—giving cities the tools to act before the heat hits hardest. Read more: http://spr.ly/63327NQx4B @busph.bsky.social

Thank you to all who presented and participated in our "AI for Understanding Earthquakes" Focused Research Program Symposium last week! View the event recording on YouTube. http://spr.ly/63329NcECF

🎓 Our AI and Education Initiative had the pleasure of meeting with a delegation from Lebanon, organized by the U.S. Department of State and WorldBoston, to explore how AI is transforming education around the world. @buwheelock.bsky.social @naomicaselli.bsky.social

How important are community-industry partnerships in developing equitable artificial intelligence solutions? Join @busph.bsky.social for an insightful presentation next Wednesday with Dr. Mary L. Gray. Register here: http://spr.ly/63324N60zi

Thank you to everyone who joined us in celebrating the launch of BEACON’s beta version last week! Stay tuned for a recording of the full event coming soon. @buceid.bsky.social @buhaririinstitute.bsky.social @bostonchildrens.bsky.social @bostonu.bsky.social

Join us for the “Data Centers and Power Grid Interactions: Challenges and Opportunities” Focused Research Program Symposium where we’ll explore emerging frameworks for privacy-preserving, collaborative energy analytics. Register today: http://spr.ly/633262vl6j

Happening May 8th! Get ready for exciting presentations from @bostonu.bsky.social researchers and other guest speakers about AI's role in the detection, monitoring, and understanding of earthquakes. 📣 Secure your spot now: http://spr.ly/633272eHvz