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

Are words arbitrary? A new @bostonu.bsky.social-led study says no, challenging core language theory. Findings in @pnas.org show patterns in ASL, English & Spanish—suggesting words reflect meaningful language structure. This could shift how we learn, recover & model language. ➡️ tinyurl.com/4a8kfrep

Congratulations to Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow Eshed Ohn-Bar on receiving the 2025 College of Engineering Early Career Research Excellence Award! Learn more: http://spr.ly/633282zLla

🌎 How could artificial intelligence enhance the detection, monitoring, and understanding of earthquakes? Learn more at the story linked here: http://spr.ly/633252zdCf

Join our launch celebration on April 24th, including a demo of the platform, plus keynote address by @massdph.bsky.social Commissioner Dr. Robbie Goldstein & special remarks by Yvonne Hao, @massgov.bsky.social Sec. of Economic Development. Full speaker list at: www.eventbrite.com/e/advances-i...

Save the date! We’re hosting an exciting symposium about our Focused Research Program (FRP) “AI for Understanding Earthquakes.” Register today! http://spr.ly/63326Fhqeg 📅 Thurs., May 8 10 AM - 3 PM 665 Commonwealth Ave. Room 1750 Hosted by Brian Kulis, PhD and Rachel Abercrombie, PhD.

Exciting news! Boston University officially launched its Artificial Intelligence Development Accelerator (AIDA). Our Director Yannis Paschalidis and Hariri Faculty Affiliate John Byers will serve as the AIDA Co-Directors of AI in Academics. Read more about this incredible initiative in BU Today.

Thank you, Charlie Wang, for giving an insightful presentation on “Field Based Computation for Vector 3D Printing: Slicing, Toolpath Generation & Motion Planning” as part of our AIR Distinguished Speaker Series! View the event recording on our YouTube page: tinyurl.com/3cwhc2ma

Join us for a Human & Machine Learning Lunch talk w/ Cognitive Scientist & BU Prof Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social on “Representations of the world in developing minds: How babies and children think about objects.” ➡️Mon, 4/28, 12–1PM

Learn how BU Engineering Professor & Hariri Junior Faculty Fellow James Chapman is advancing sustainable energy through AI-driven research and ENERGIZE graduate training in this Hariri Institute Faculty Fellow Spotlight: http://spr.ly/63327FGiu3

Should we embrace Generative AI in research? Hariri Institute experts say yes! Our Director @ypaschalidis.bsky.social discusses how AI is advancing scientific discovery, enhancing education, and raising critical questions about misinformation and privacy. Read more here: spr.ly/601407NC6

We’re excited to have several members of our community participating in BU’s Task Force for Convergent Research and Education. Learn more about convergent research at Hariri Institute: http://spr.ly/633230QAcL

@bostonu.bsky.social and @buhaririinstitute.bsky.social researchers have published a groundbreaking study in PNAS describing an AI-powered breakthrough in plasma science delivering new computational efficiencies. ➡️Learn more: tinyurl.com/far2up5t

Join us for “Speech, Language, and Motor Skills in Late Talkers,” with speech-language pathologist and postdoctoral researcher at the BU Infant Communication Lab, Marc Maffei, PhD! ➡️Mon, April 14: 12-1 PM http://spr.ly/63321LL3bh