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: https://medaihack.org/

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

EVAL and Amira Learning

@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

CyberAlliance Seminar March 5

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

Connor Coley, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT

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.

New Faculty Affiliates, February

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

Elettra Bietti

🔐 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

Brian DePasquale

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

Allison Portnoy: NIH-Backed RSV Model Could Guide Prevention Across All Ages

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

Allison McDonald

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

Hariri Institute is Proud to BU

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

Terrier Spirit Day

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.

CyberAlliance Spring 2026

🔐 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 Pre-Proposals

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

AIR Weekly Shrimai Prabhumoye

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.

Sarah Milligan

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 Pre-Proposals

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

Joint Evans Center Pre-ARC and Hariri Focused Research Program Workshop

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

Happy Holidays from Hariri Institute This is "Happy Holidays from Hariri Institute" by Maureen Stanton on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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.

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Happy Thanksgiving Hariri Institute

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.

Sarah Milligan Spotlight Hariri Institute

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

DataHub

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

AIR Seminar

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

EVAL

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

Huitong Ding

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

Pawel Przytycki JFF Hariri Institute

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.

Virtual Symposium 10/29

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

Researchers develop AI system to detect scam websites in search results - Help Net Security Boston University researchers built LOKI, a machine learning system that finds scam websites by ranking search queries for fraud risk.

Nice article covering our upcoming NDSS paper

www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/10/09/l...

Hackathon for Health Equity

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

Enhancing Models for Breast Cancer Risk Prediction Through Clinician-AI Collaboration

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.

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