Shark attack at B.U.

Outside B.U.’s Questroom School of Business, where the new SharkNinja lab will be housed.

Edited from a New England Council report.

“Boston University is partnering with SharkNinja to launch the SharkNinja AI & Analytics Lab, with the aim of merging academic insight with real-world business challenges for B.U. graduate students.

“The lab will be housed within Questroom’s Consulting Lab, where graduate students will work under faculty to design AI-driven solutions. Students will operate as a consulting team, using data-modeling techniques to support both hands-on product innovation and internal operations.  

“‘We are here to help pore through large data sets to find those pockets of opportunity,’ said Peter Howard, executive director of Action Learning and the Questroom Consulting Lab.

‘“We’ll take on any type of challenge,’ he said. This initiative will give students the chance to apply their technical skills to high-impact projects while gaining direct decision-making experience.’’