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GSF Spotlight: Read about how @BU_Tweets researcher Eddie Ruiz leveraged his Graduate Student Fellowship to build dbverse—speeding up massive biological data analyses by up to 1,000x on a standard laptop—and help secure a $3.4M NIH award. Read the full story: spr.ly/6011BHpc89
Congratulations to Chuanfei Dong, a Boston University Assistant Professor of Astronomy and researcher at @BUCSPIAR, who has been elected a 2026 Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS)—one of the society’s highest honors recognizing outstanding contributions to physics:
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The Hariri Institute is pleased to announce that there will be a Distinguished Seminar with Marzyeh Ghassemi on Friday, November 13th. Register now: spr.ly/6015BHHlfS
How can we organize AI scientist agents into collaborative communities that drive scientific discovery at scale? Join us for an engaging seminar with James Zou, Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science, Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, as he explores the future of AI-powered research collaboration. spr.ly/6013BG2It9
This Thursday, Jianyang Gu, a postdoctoral scholar at The Ohio State University and visiting postdoc at MIT, will visit Boston University for an AI Research Seminar. Gu will discuss how moving from samples to concepts can offer a more expressive interface between data and models, and how concept-centric representations can support more interpretable scientific learning.
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Please join us in welcoming Mona Jalal—the new leader of our Data Science Mentoring Circles Program! Learn more about Mona: spr.ly/6011BGvedd
Additionally, applications for DSMC mentors and mentees closes this Monday!
Join us for light refreshments and insightful presentations: Our Artificial Intelligence Research Initiative (AIR) has a series of seminars this month starting Monday, October 5th! spr.ly/6010BGQpEw
Featured Event: Michael Dietze and Jonathan Huggins will host the "Accelerating Environmental Forecasting Symposium" on Tuesday, October 27 at the Duan Family Center for Computing & Data Sciences from 10 am - 7 pm. View agenda and register now: spr.ly/6018BGtrjg
This Tuesday, 9/29, Fuxin Li, Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at @oregonstate, will present "From Heatmaps to Structural and Counterfactual Explanations" as part of our Artificial Intelligence Research Initiative. This talk will be held in CDS 1101 from 2-3PM.spr.ly/6015BG97ef
Researchers from @BU_Tweets, @SpauldingRehab, @MassGenBrigham, @harvardmed, and @PSburnsurvivors along with @hicsail have developed LIBRE GO!, a smartphone app that allows burn survivors to assess their social recovery, monitor changes over time, and connect with evidence-based resources. Learn more: spr.ly/6014BG9NPn
Could the combination of data science and cosmology uncover one of the universe’s greatest mysteries? Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow Dillon Brout shares insight into dark energy and the need for convergent research in the field: spr.ly/6017BGurnt
Please join us in congratulating Deepti Ghadiyaram on her new role as the co-director of our Artificial Intelligence Research Initiative (AIR)! Deepti has been a core faculty member of AIR since summer of 2024 and will co-direct with Kate Saenko. Read more: spr.ly/6010BGJeSO
Please join us in welcoming Ian Westmacott, PhD as the new Director of the Boston University Software and Application Innovation Lab! Learn about Ian Westmacott here: spr.ly/6015B1ACwH
Congratulations to @BU_Tweets students Anand Sahu and Pridhi Balhara on winning the 2026 Merck in Silico Innovation Cup for AI Agents! spr.ly/6015B1aVZP
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Today, NSF released 12 new notices of funding opportunity providing over $1.5 billion for foundational research across the sciences and engineering. brnw.ch/21x4ZF2
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Can modern databases scale scientific analyses beyond RAM?
During my PhD, I explored whether matrix, spatial, and genomic operations could share a database execution layer without changing the APIs scientists rely on.
Today, I’m excited to finally share dbverse, a composable database framework built around that idea.
Across benchmarks, dbverse delivers up to 1,000× speedups and scales end-to-end spatial omics analyses to millions of cells on a 16 GB M4 Mac mini.
Paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
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What if better AI for drug discovery isn’t about bigger models?
New @BU_Tweets research shows that AI designed around the biology of antibodies can outperform much larger models—offering a new approach to antibody discovery.
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BU researchers Chuanfei Dong and Brian Kulis are part of a new @ENERGY 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. spr.ly/6014B16trQ
Boston University 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.
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New @AmJPublicHealth editorial led by @BU_Tweets faculty Dr. Debbie Cheng makes the case that realizing AI's promise for health requires more than technical innovation—it requires public health leadership. spr.ly/6017BEZZgv
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