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buhaririinstitute.bsky.social @buhaririinstitute.bsky.social · 6d

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

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buhaririinstitute.bsky.social @buhaririinstitute.bsky.social · 9d

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

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buhaririinstitute.bsky.social @buhaririinstitute.bsky.social · 12d

"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"

Poster for Boston University's Materials Day 2025: "From Automation to Collaboration: the Future of Self-Driving Labs", October 24, 8:15am-5pm, 665 Commonwealth Ave. Room 1750. A QR code links to registration.

buhaririinstitute.bsky.social @buhaririinstitute.bsky.social · 13d

⏰ 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.

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buhaririinstitute.bsky.social @buhaririinstitute.bsky.social · 14d

🧬 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

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buhaririinstitute.bsky.social @buhaririinstitute.bsky.social · 15d

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

buhaririinstitute.bsky.social @buhaririinstitute.bsky.social · 16d

"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"

A collage of photos from the Hariri Institute CISE SE "Welcome Back Event 9.12.25." Images include people socializing, eating, and receiving awards from Boston University. Allison Portnoy and Sarah Milligan are pictured with awards.

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buhaririinstitute.bsky.social @buhaririinstitute.bsky.social · 19d

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

buhaririinstitute.bsky.social @buhaririinstitute.bsky.social · 20d

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

Hariri Institute's Air Weekly Seminar presents Micah Adler, Visiting Scientist at MIT CSAIL, on "Towards Combinatorial Interpretability of Neural Networks" on Tuesday, September 23, from 2-3 PM ET, at 665 Commonwealth Ave, Room 1101.

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buhaririinstitute.bsky.social @buhaririinstitute.bsky.social · 23d

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

buhaririinstitute.bsky.social @buhaririinstitute.bsky.social · 26d

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.

Dr. Nahid Bhadelia @bhadeliamd.bsky.social · 26d

In our 4 months of existence, @beaconbio.bsky.social has gained active users in 162 countries. Clearly there is a need for a free & open resource that not only raises alarm about new threats but provides context about why it matters. Thank you to all our users!

WBUR @wbur.org · 26d

“Our main goal is to reduce the time between the reporting of a disease and its response,” said project founder Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, an infectious disease physician who served in the Biden administration’s COVID response team. “You want a potential alarm bell.”

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buhaririinstitute.bsky.social @buhaririinstitute.bsky.social · 27d

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

Artificial Intelligence Opens New Possibilities in Materials Science

buhaririinstitute.bsky.social @buhaririinstitute.bsky.social · Sep 8

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

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buhaririinstitute.bsky.social @buhaririinstitute.bsky.social · Sep 5

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

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buhaririinstitute.bsky.social @buhaririinstitute.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

Boston University Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases @buceid.bsky.social · Sep 2

Happy first day of classes, Terriers! 🐾 As you plan your semester, mark your calendars for next Monday, 9/8 at 11am for a guest lecture, "Countering misinformation and building public trust in science" by Dr. @vishplus.bsky.social from @hsph.harvard.edu.
www.eventbrite.com/e/countering...

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buhaririinstitute.bsky.social @buhaririinstitute.bsky.social · Sep 3

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

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buhaririinstitute.bsky.social @buhaririinstitute.bsky.social · Aug 1

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

buhaririinstitute.bsky.social @buhaririinstitute.bsky.social · Jul 31

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

PodGPT: New AI Model Blends Research and Podcasts for Smarter Health Answers

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Yannis Paschalidis @ypaschalidis.bsky.social · Jul 18

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

Developing an accessible dementia assessment tool: Leveraging a residual network, the trail making test, and demographic data - Jingmei Yang, Samad Amini, Boran Hao, Seho Park, Cody Karjadi, Lance San...

Background The global burden of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias is rapidly increasing, particularly in low- and middle-income countries where acc...

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buhaririinstitute.bsky.social @buhaririinstitute.bsky.social · Jul 9

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

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buhaririinstitute.bsky.social @buhaririinstitute.bsky.social · Jul 2

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

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buhaririinstitute.bsky.social @buhaririinstitute.bsky.social · Jul 1

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

buhaririinstitute.bsky.social @buhaririinstitute.bsky.social · Jun 11

🏆 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

buhaririinstitute.bsky.social @buhaririinstitute.bsky.social · Jun 8

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

buhaririinstitute.bsky.social @buhaririinstitute.bsky.social · Jun 7

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