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A $20 million NSF award will expand BU's DAMP Lab cloud lab and link it to a national network of 20 AI-driven research facilities, aiming to democratize access to advanced biotechnology capabilities for researchers nationwide.
BU's College of Arts & Sciences announced three new master's programs aimed at emerging technical fields, including computing and data-intensive work.
ECE professor Gianluca Stringhini released an open-source tool that helps peer reviewers detect AI-hallucinated citations in academic manuscripts.
ECE faculty and students were recognized across every category of the Hariri Institute's 2026 cohort, including new Junior Faculty Fellow Wei-Lun (Harry) Chao and a neuro-AI Focused Research Program on striatal learning.
CDS closed the 2025-26 academic year by recognizing students, faculty, and staff for research and community impact.
BU became a core member of the NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI) alongside MIT, Harvard, Northeastern, and Tufts. CDS Assistant Professor Siddharth Mishra-Sharma leads BU's participation.
BU's School of Public Health launched DataHub, a Center for Health Data Science initiative to help researchers discover, access, and responsibly use health data for AI-driven, cross-disciplinary work.
The Hariri Institute announced its 2026 fellowship and research program awardees, with several CDS and Bioinformatics faculty and students among them.
BEACON, run out of BU's Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, uses AI to scan large volumes of data for early signals of outbreaks like measles, cholera, and mpox before they surface through standard public health channels.
CDS Assistant Professor Xuezhou "Jack" Zhang received NIH funding for a collaboration applying AI to drug repurposing.
COM professor Ayse Lokmanoglu won an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship for computational work on how online imagery drives political polarization.
CDS researcher Mu-Ting Chien is using the ACE2 deep learning climate emulator to study weather and climate variability at century scale.
BU's Elizabeth Barnes combines AI with Earth sciences to improve climate and weather predictions across timescales from days to decades, aiming to accelerate Earth system modeling while preserving scientific rigor and uncertainty quantification.
The AI Development Accelerator named Hariri Institute faculty affiliate Debbie Cheng as Director of Strategy and Partnerships, following an AIDA symposium on real-world generative-AI use in research and education.
