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      "body": "U.S. News & World Report released its [2027 Best Colleges rankings](https://www.usnews.com/info/blogs/press-room/articles/2026-09-22/mit-claims-no-1-spot-in-u-s-news-2027-best-colleges-rankings) on September 22. On its list of the [top undergraduate computer science programs for artificial intelligence](https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/computer-science/artificial-intelligence), BU placed 25th.\n\nBU also set a record overall. It [ranked 34th among national universities](https://www.bu.edu/articles/2026/boston-university-achieves-highest-ever-ranking-from-u-s-news-world-report/), eight spots higher than last year and its best finish in the list's 43 years. U.S. News ranked 422 universities.\n\n## How the AI list works\n\nThe AI rank measures reputation. Survey respondents nominated up to 15 of the best programs in each discipline. A program needed at least seven nominations to earn a rank, and U.S. News [ordered programs](https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/undergraduate-ranking-methodologies) by how many nominations they received.\n\nPeers rank BU's AI work well above its computer science program as a whole, which placed [52nd](https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/computer-science-overall) on the broader list.\n\n## What peers may be noticing\n\nBU built a central AI office in April 2025. The [AI Development Accelerator (AIDA)](/labs/ai-development-accelerator-aida) pulls the University's AI work into one initiative. Computer science professor [John Byers](/professors/john-byers) leads it as executive director. Engineering professor [Yannis Paschalidis](/professors/ioannis-paschalidis) directs AI in academics and also runs the [Hariri Institute](/labs/hariri-institute-for-computing).\n\nAIDA's projects reach students directly. [TerrierGPT](/terriergpt) opened to faculty and staff in September 2025 and gives the BU community free access to leading chatbots. AIDA also runs [AI at BU](https://www.bu.edu/aida/2026/01/14/aida-january-update-for-faculty-and-staff/), a four-hour, self-paced online course for undergraduates, and some instructors planned to require it before their Spring 2026 classes.\n\nResearch money followed. In July 2026, the National Science Foundation [awarded BU $20 million](/news/nsf-awards-20-million-establish-national-cloud-lab-network) to help build a national network of AI-driven cloud labs. [Douglas Densmore](/professors/douglas-densmore), Paschalidis, and [Keith Brown](/professors/keith-brown) lead the work. A month earlier, BU became a core member of an [NSF institute that uses AI for physics research](/news/bu-joins-nsf-iaifi), alongside MIT, Harvard, Northeastern, and Tufts. CDS assistant professor [Siddharth Mishra-Sharma](/professors/siddharth-mishra-sharma) leads BU's part.\n\nIndividual faculty are drawing notice too. CDS faculty fellow [Brian DePasquale](/professors/brian-depasquale) [won a 2026 Sloan Research Fellowship](/news/brian-depasquale-sloan-fellowship) for AI models of how the brain perceives smell. CDS assistant professor [Joshua Peterson](/professors/joshua-peterson) [leads a DARPA-funded study](/news/joshua-peterson-study-ai-trust) that aims to predict when people will trust AI decision-makers. [Deepti Ghadiyaram](/professors/deepti-ghadiyaram) came to BU in 2024 after working at Meta AI and Runway. She now [co-directs](/news/deepti-ghadiyaram-appointed-co-director-of-bu-s-ai-research-initiative) the Hariri Institute's [AI Research Initiative](/labs/ai-research-initiative), which has more than 20 core and affiliated faculty. In engineering, [Eshed Ohn-Bar](/professors/eshed-ohn-bar) runs the [Human-to-Everything (H2X) Lab](/labs/human-to-everything-h2x-lab), which develops autonomous systems that give people real-time assistance.\n\n## Terrier Intelligence\n\nTerrier Intelligence launched in July 2026 as a free, independent [directory](/resources) of more than 350 AI labs, clubs, classes, and professors at BU.",
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      "summary": "Professors Ayşe Coskun and Emiliano Dall’Anese have received $180,000 in additional funding from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center to expand their work on managing AI data center power consumption. The project aims to develop a multimodal framework that regulates power use under grid constraints without sacrificing performance.",
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