As I bid farewell to Boston University, a place that has been my academic home over these past years, I am filled with a mix of emotions. The years since I started at BU and became a father have truly flown by. My tenure at BU, while challenging due to serious personal circumstances, has been […]

Jim Simons, the math genius who conquered Wall Street, died yesterday. Jim Simons was a renowned mathematician and hedge fund manager, widely recognized for founding Renaissance Technologies, one of the world’s most successful quantitative investment firms. With a background in mathematics, Simons contributed significantly to the field of geometry and topology before transitioning to finance. […]

My student Mr. Tianyi Chen defended yesterday successfully his thesis titled as “Dense Subgraph Discovery: Novel Algorithms and Applications”. The committee was composed of Prof. George Kollios, Prof. Evimaria Terzi, and Dr. Atsushi Miyauchi. Tianyi focused on addressing dense subgraph discovery issues in contemporary graph datasets, including uncertain graphs, multilayer networks, and graphs containing opinion […]