BU Sloan Fellowship Winner Mark Bun on Data Privacy, Embracing Failure, Baking Cakes

Mark Bun

, a Boston University College of Arts & Sciences assistant professor of computer science, is one of 118 early-career scholars to be awarded a prestigious 2022 Sloan Research Fellowship. The Sloan Foundation, which awards each fellow $75,000 to be spent over a two-year term on any expense supporting their research, says its winners "represent the most promising scientific researchers working today. Their achievements and potential place them among the next generation of scientific leaders in the US and Canada."

Since the first Sloan Research Fellowships were awarded in 1955, a total of 56 BU faculty-including Bun-have received a fellowship. The Brink asked Bun about his work and what inspires him in his research.

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