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  • Anny-Claude Joseph [Talk] Anny-Claude Joseph: Causal Inference under Spatial Interference - When: Friday, April 10, 3:00 PMWhere: Tyler 055 AbstractEnvironmental epidemiologists are increasingly interested in establishing causality between exposures and health outcomes. A popular model for causal inference is the Rubin Causal Model (RCM). An important assumption under RCM is no interference, that is, the potential outcomes of one unit in the study are not affected […]
  • IACR [Talk] Data and Discussion DS event: Academic and Professional Opportunities - When: Friday, April 3, 12-2 pm Where: LIB 166 Join us for an engaging Data Science event co-hosted with the Women in Data Science club. Our featured speaker is Alena Korshunova (MBA), a Principal Business Intelligence Analyst in Innovation, Analytics & AI at FM Global. She will share insights into her career path and experience […]
  • Ryan Fox-Tyler [Talk] Ryan Fox-Tyler: AI Agents in Production: The Gap Between What’s Possible and What’s Deployable - When: Friday, April 3, 3:00 PMWhere: Tyler 055 AbstractEvery generation of developer infrastructure faces the same core tension: how do you give increasingly powerful systems the ability to act autonomously while maintaining the safety and governance guarantees that organizations require? For decades, this played out in distributed systems — microservices, data pipelines, and platform engineering […]
  • Optimization Example [Talk] LicketySPLIT: Near-Optimal Decision Trees in a SPLIT Second - When: Tuesday, March 31, 11:00 AMWhere: Bliss Hall 190 AbstractDecision tree optimization is fundamental to interpretable machine learning. The most popular approach is to greedily search for the best feature at every decision point, which is fast but provably suboptimal. Recent approaches find the global optimum using branch and bound with dynamic programming, showing substantial […]
  • Laura Forastiere [Talk] Laura Forastiere: Maximizing effectiveness under constrained resources through policy targeting under heterogeneous spillover effects - When: Friday, March 27, 3:00 PMWhere: Tyler 055 AbstractIn many empirical settings, individuals are interconnected, and an individual’s outcome may depend on the treatment of others, leading to interference. When interference is heterogeneous, treating individuals with specific characteristics can influence the population average outcome differently, either through their direct response or their impact on others. […]
  • Alina Jade Barnett [Talk] Alina Jade Barnett: Inherently Interpretable Deep Learning Models - When: Friday, March 13, 3:00 PM Where: Tyler 055 Abstract AI models now perform high-stakes tasks traditionally reserved for skilled professionals, often surpassing human expert performance. Despite these advances, the “black box” (i.e., uninterpretable) nature of many machine learning algorithms poses significant challenges. Opaque models resist troubleshooting, cannot justify their decisions, and lack accountability—limitations that […]

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Recent Awards

  • Shaun Wallace Shaun Wallace Named 2026 URI SSIREP Public Policy Fellow - Assistant Professor Shaun Wallace has been selected as a 2026 Public Policy Fellow through URI’s Social Science Institute for Research, Education, and Policy (SSIREP). Wallace’s fellowship project, “Exploring Cyber Dating Aggression in Real-Time Among Young Adults,” will prototype a web-based user-first privacy-preserving extraction pipeline for identifying cyber dating aggression (CDA) from their naturally occurring digital […]
  • Sarah Brown Sarah Brown Receives NSF CAREER Award - Assistant Professor of Computer Science Sarah Brown has received an NSF CAREER award for CAREER: Realizing Sociotechnical Machine Learning Through Modeling, Explanations, And Reflection. NSF CAREER awards are made in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission […]
  • Shaun Wallace Department of Defense awards $100,000 for low-code / no-code tools - The United States Air Force (DoD) awarded Shaun Wallace and collaborator BAM Technologies a $100,000 SBIR/STTR Phase 1 grant. Their goal is to develop new, improve, or replace existing low-code or no-code technologies or frameworks that address end-users’ issues. Specifically, these tools will allow non-technical users to develop applications to solve organizational challenges secondary to the […]
  • Krishna Venkatasubramanian NSF Awards $599,999 for VR for Post-Trauma Self-Regulation - The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $599,999 to Krishna Venkatasubramanian for Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Post-Trauma Self-Regulation for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, a project that will design VR-mediated technologies that empower adults with I/DD to engage in independent post-trauma self-regulation (PTSR) to cope with the negative effects of trauma.
  • Abdeltawab Hendawi $100,000 Award for Sidewalk Stress Detection and Routing - $100,000 in scholarships from The 401 BridgeTech foundation have been awarded to Abdeltawab Hendawi’s AI Lab for Sidewalk Stress Detection and Routing. This project aims at the development of algorithms, spatial data structures, and artificial intelligence (AI) models for sidewalk feature identification to provide safer accessibility routing and services on sidewalks.
  • Sarah Brown Survival and Flourishing Fund Awards $163,000 for Fair Data Science - The Survival and Flourishing Fund awarded Sarah Brown $163,000 for Machine Learning for Socio-technical Systems Lab. The project will build a benchmark for LLM Agents at doing fair data science.

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Seminars and Colloquia

  • Anny-Claude Joseph [Talk] Anny-Claude Joseph: Causal Inference under Spatial Interference - When: Friday, April 10, 3:00 PMWhere: Tyler 055 AbstractEnvironmental epidemiologists are increasingly interested in establishing causality between exposures and health outcomes. A popular model for causal inference is the Rubin Causal Model (RCM). An important assumption under RCM is no interference, that is, the potential outcomes of one unit in the study are not affected […]
  • IACR [Talk] Data and Discussion DS event: Academic and Professional Opportunities - When: Friday, April 3, 12-2 pm Where: LIB 166 Join us for an engaging Data Science event co-hosted with the Women in Data Science club. Our featured speaker is Alena Korshunova (MBA), a Principal Business Intelligence Analyst in Innovation, Analytics & AI at FM Global. She will share insights into her career path and experience […]
  • Ryan Fox-Tyler [Talk] Ryan Fox-Tyler: AI Agents in Production: The Gap Between What’s Possible and What’s Deployable - When: Friday, April 3, 3:00 PMWhere: Tyler 055 AbstractEvery generation of developer infrastructure faces the same core tension: how do you give increasingly powerful systems the ability to act autonomously while maintaining the safety and governance guarantees that organizations require? For decades, this played out in distributed systems — microservices, data pipelines, and platform engineering […]

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