What if better AI for drug discovery isn’t about bigger models? New Boston University research shows that AI designed around the biology of antibodies can outperform much larger models—offering a new approach to antibody discovery. tinyurl.com/tw7prp29

BU researchers Chuanfei Dong and Brian Kulis are part of a new US DOE Genesis Mission award. The Princeton-led collaboration will develop AI tools and a digital twin of FLARE to better understand magnetic reconnection, with applications to space weather and fusion. tinyurl.com/4tj7du4w

@bostonu.bsky.social has been awarded nearly $20M from NSF to help establish the National Cloud Lab Network—an AI-enabled system of programmable, remotely accessible self-driving laboratories that will transform scientific research and accelerate discovery. tinyurl.com/5bpt2afz

New @amjpublichealth.bsky.social editorial led by Boston University’s Debbie Cheng makes the case that realizing AI's promise for health requires more than technical innovation—it requires public health leadership. tinyurl.com/4cekfvnm @bostonu.bsky.social

In a new study published in npj Digital Medicine, Hariri Institute Faculty Affiliate Professor Swathi Kiran explores how a “digital twin” of a bilingual stroke survivor can predict their response to targeted speech therapy in each language. Learn more: spr.ly/63322BDLzgQ

Join the Center for Computational Science on Friday, June 26 in CDS 1101 from 2 – 3:30 PM for a Visiting Researcher Seminar with Amartya Bose, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. spr.ly/63322BDdTsY

Congratulations to Keith Brown on being appointed Head of the Division of Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) at the College of Engineering, effective July 1, 2026. Read more: spr.ly/63324B8fPQq

Ph.D. Student Spotlight: Hariri Institute for Computing Graduate Student Fellows Tianle Chen Rosalie Gendron Ilker Isik Emily Kim Yulu Qin Learn more about their work: spr.ly/63321B8FrYd

Welcome 2026 Hariri Institute for Computing Junior Faculty Fellows! Meredith Brooks Wei-Lun (Harry) Chao Jacob Nudel Paul Stillman Boqing Gong Learn more about their work: spr.ly/63322B8FuIo

In their FRP, BU Professors Daniel Segrè and Ilija Dukovski are creating a digital twin of cancer metabolism in 3D, enabling subsequent extensions of systematic studies of tumor growth dynamics, spatial heterogeneity and possible personalized therapeutic strategies. spr.ly/63322B8qkwk

BU Professors Stacy Andersen and Katherine Gifford aim to develop digital biomarkers that detect Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders by combining expertise in aging, neuropsychology, linguistics, biostatistics, engineering, data science, AI/ML, and computational methods. spr.ly/63324B8qOk6

@bostonu.bsky.social Professors Mark Howe and Venkatesh Saligrama are building a Neuro-AI community around multi-scale striatal learning by integrating neuromodulator recordings, voltage imaging, machine learning, and reinforcement-learning theory in their FRP. spr.ly/63325B8lKmJ

FY27 Focused Research Programs Spotlight: "AI for Characterizing and Designing Biomolecular Interactions" Learn more about this FRP: spr.ly/63323B8Y3sz

A significant step forward for AI-enabled and convergent health research. DataHub, launched by @bostonu.bsky.social Center for Health Data Science, helps researchers leverage health data—strengthening collaboration & accelerating discovery. spr.ly/63329B8Yr8h

Please join us in congratulating the award recipients of our FY27 Focused Research Program Awards and FY26 Junior Faculty and Graduate Student Fellows Programs! Learn more about the programs and recipients: spr.ly/63323B8ZEJN

In an era where automation and vibe coding reshape how we build software, the Data Science Mentoring Circles program (DSMC) reinforces the vital role of the human element in data science. Thank you to the DSMC mentors who participated in this event! Read the insights here: spr.ly/63324BBA9bY

233 registrants. 30 multidisciplinary teams. Real biomedical challenges. Our MedAI hackathon brought together students and faculty from across Boston University to tackle lung cancer, Alzheimer’s, and kidney injury using real research data. Read the event recap here: spr.ly/63320BBIFSk

New research from @bostonu.bsky.social finds wash trading in major NFT exchanges: ~38% of trades and 60% of value show manipulation patterns. The study highlights need for stronger tools to detect suspicious activity and protect market integrity. Read more: www.bu.edu/hic/2026/05/...

Congratulations to Hariri Junior Faculty Fellow Dillon Brout for receiving the 2026 New Horizons in Physics Prize — one of the most coveted honors for early-career scientists and part of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation awards, widely known as the “Oscars of Science.” spr.ly/63323BBEUaS

Catch up on upcoming events, faculty highlights, and new opportunities from across the Hariri Institute in our April newsletter: spr.ly/63323B6Ar7b

Partnering with @buhaririinstitute.bsky.social, our infectious disease experts provided the content inputs needed to train PandemIQ Llama LLM. By training the LLM on pandemic-specific text, we've created a domain-adapted foundation model specifically designed for high-stakes health intelligence.

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PandemIQ Llama, the LLM developed by the @buhaririinstitute.bsky.social with infectious disease experts at @buceid.bsky.social to analyze incoming signals & draft reports for BEACON, is now open-source. Share with us how you plan to use it in your own projects. spr.ly/63329htIg7

Are you looking to publish your research? Join researchers from around the globe for the #FreeWebinar IEEE Authorship and #OpenAccess Symposium: Tips and Best Practices to Get Published from IEEE Editors! 📅 12 May 2026 ⏰ 9:30 a.m. ET 🔗 https://loom.ly/WdeZt6o #IEEEXplore #AcademicSky #Research

BU SAIL won a $400K Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant to advance an open-source initiative making generative AI more reproducible, secure, and accessible across higher education. Building on a successful pilot, the project now moves toward a scalable, community-driven platform. spr.ly/63325B6NJOT

Huge congrats to our Director, @ypaschalidis.bsky.social, on his induction into the @aimbe-official.bsky.social College of Fellows! 🎓 From federated learning to global disease surveillance, Yannis is bridging the gap between technical innovation and human health. spr.ly/63324B62rzY

Join us Thursday, April 16, as Ming Chen presents a Center for Computational Science Seminar on how integrating physical principles into AI models can improve accuracy, data efficiency, and transferability in AI-for-science frameworks: spr.ly/63320B6Lja0

Join us on April 15 for Marshall Van Alstyne’s CyberAlliance talk, "Using Markets to Curb Misinformation," exploring how market design and financial accountability mechanisms like Truth Warrants may reduce false claims without censorship or centralized moderation. spr.ly/63323B6IOST

This Tuesday! Join us for a CISE/Hariri Institute Distinguished Seminar with Francesco Bullo, Distinguished Professor and Mosher endowed chair of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. spr.ly/63329B6LZUv

Is there life beyond PCA? Find out at the ECE/Hariri Institute Seminar with Bruno Sinopoli — presenting linear methods for dimensionality reduction that rival autoencoders, kernel PCA, and UMAP. Details: spr.ly/63321B6xRyS

Today is Boston University's Giving Day! Give a gift to the Hariri Institute today to empower BU's AI, computing, and data science researchers: spr.ly/63324B6aPB4

Congrats to Manos Athanassoulis — named a 2025 IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributor. Fewer than 0.5% of IEEE CS members receive this recognition in a given year. spr.ly/63323B6gLFc