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NSF Awards $4.8 Million to URI Cybersecurity Center Under Victor Fay-Wolfe (9/24/2026) - The University of Rhode Island’s Digital Forensics and Cybersecurity Center, part of the Department of Computer Science and Statistics, has been awarded two NSF grants totaling $4.8 million. The funding will support scholarships for students in the Professional Science Master’s in Cybersecurity program and the new Securing Artificial Intelligence track. The first award, a three-year, […]
[Talk] Naitee Ting: Dose-Response Modeling for Phase II Decision-Making (9/23/2026) - When: Friday, September 25, 1:00 PMWhere: Tyler 108 AbstractIn the process of medicine discovery and development, understanding the dose-response relationship is one of the most important and challenging tasks. It is critical to identify the right range of doses in early stages of medicine development so that Phase III trials can be properly designed to […]- URI CS Connect Day — A full day of connection, insight, and career preparation (9/17/2026) - When: Friday, September 18, 2026 8:30am to 5:00pmWhere: Memorial Union Ballroom The URI CS Connect Day brings students, alumni, faculty, and industry partners together for conversations about computing careers, emerging technologies, recruiting, and the evolving role of AI in the workplace. Join us to discuss workplace readiness and explore career pathways in the computer science […]
[Talk] MEDFORD: A human- and machine-readable metadata markup language (9/17/2026) - When: Friday, September 18, 1:00 PMWhere: Tyler 108 Abstract Reproducibility of research is essential for science. However, in the way modern computational biology research is done, it is easy to lose track of small, but extremely critical, details. Key details, such as the specific version of a software used or iteration of a genome can […]
B.S. redesigned with AI and Cybersecurity tracks (8/17/2026) - Starting Fall 2026, every computer science B.S. student will be able to choose a specialization in Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, or General Computer Science. The modernized curriculum puts machine learning and data science in every student’s core, and a streamlined B.A. launches alongside it.
Alina Barnett Wins Foundation Grant to Improve AI Breast Cancer Diagnosis (5/20/2026) - Assistant Professor of Computer Science Alina Barnett has received a $25,000 research grant to improve how artificial intelligence models reason through breast cancer diagnoses, the Rhode Island Foundation announced Monday. Barnett is one of 14 URI researchers sharing in total of $650,000 in medical research grants awarded to 26 projects statewide. Barnett’s work targets the […]
Noah Daniels and Shaun Wallace Receive NSF FAIROS Grant with Tufts Collaborators (5/13/2026) - Professors Noah Daniels and Shaun Wallace have been awarded a $600,000 National Science Foundation FAIROS (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable, and Open Science) grant, shared between URI and Tufts University. The project addresses a gap in scientific research: while researchers across many domains generate vast amounts of data, existing metadata schemas are largely inaccessible to non-programmers. […]