Regular Events

Computer Summer Camp

Educating campers in a hands-on environment while having fun and making friends, websites, programs, robots and more.

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Society for Women in Computing

SWIC offers regular meetings for women in technology to develop professional skills and build their expertise.

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RamHacks

A bi-weekly opportunity for majors, and those interested in technology topics, to network and collaborate.

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News

  • Sarah Brown receives URI 2025 Graduate Mentoring Excellence Award - Assistant Professor Sarah Brown has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 Graduate Mentoring Excellence Award presented to a faculty member in the College of Arts and Sciences! Each year, graduate students are invited to nominate members of the graduate faculty who are outstanding mentors and major professors. Students are asked to consider those […]
  • Women in AI Workshop - When: Wednesday, April 16, 4:30-6:00 pm Where: Ballentine 115 Our Computer Science IGT Scholars are presenting a Women in AI Workshop that is open to all who are interested. The workshop will include a panel of women who have worked in the field of Artificial Intelligence in a variety of capacities: Panel: Dawn Fitzgerald – […]
  • Indrani Mandahl honored as Rhode Island Monthly Tech10 recipient - Congratulations to Associate Teaching Professor Indrani Mandahl as one of two members of the URI community recognized among Rhode Island Monthly’s 2024 Tech10 and Next Tech Generation Award recipients for their exceptional contributions to technology and education.
  • Amoy Scott (right) pictured with Sarah Brown, Assistant Professor of Computer Science Two Computer Science students honored at URI Black Scholar awards - Computer science students Amoy Scott and Warith Balogun were honored Monday at the URI Black Scholar awards. Scott received the Sojourner Truth Award for Scholarly Persistence and Dedication, presented to a senior in recognition of success despite dire financial, physical and/or personal problems that would ordinarily impede progress, and Balogun received the Earl N. Smith, […]
  • Kelum Gajamannage, Low-rank data imputation using Hadamard deep autoencoders, with applications to fragmented trajectory reconstruction of collective motion - When: Friday, October 13 at 4:00 pm. Where: Fascitelli 040 Abstract: Data imputation is an essential preprocessing step in statistical learning that is to be performed before any technical analysis is conducted on partially observed data. Data originating from natural phenomena is low-rank due to diverse natural dependencies that a low-rank technique should primarily emphasize […]
  • Antonios Argyriou, Passive Wireless Sensing: Implications on Privacy and Counter-Measures - When: Monday, October 30 at 1:00 pm. Where: Quinn 211. Who: Dr. Antonios Argyriou, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece. Abstract: Emitters of wireless signals are all around us 24/7. These wireless signals contain digital information that may be the target of different types of cyber security attacks. However, […]

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Recent Awards

  • 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 or 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.
  • Abdeltawab Hendawi NSF Awards $250,000 for Deforestation and Degradation Prediction - The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Abdeltawab Hendawi $250,000 for Global Centers Track 2: Blue Climate Solution, a project that aims to improve predictions of deforestation and degradation, understand dynamic changes in carbon storage, and develop effective conservation policies. The Global Center (GC) for Blue Carbon Solutions, a partnership between the US and Indonesia, […]

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Seminars and Colloquia

  • Women in AI Workshop - When: Wednesday, April 16, 4:30-6:00 pm Where: Ballentine 115 Our Computer Science IGT Scholars are presenting a Women in AI Workshop that is open to all who are interested. The workshop will include a panel of women who have worked in the field of Artificial Intelligence in a variety of capacities: Panel: Dawn Fitzgerald – […]
  • Stephen Bach, Rigorously Benchmarking LLMs for Translating Text to Structured Planning Languages - When: Friday, 4/18/25 11:00 am; Where: Bliss 260 Abstract: Can large language models (LLMs) help with planning? And how should we even measure that ability? In this talk, I will present our work on Planetarium, a benchmark that evaluates LLMs’ ability to generate PDDL (Planning Domain Definition Language) code from natural language descriptions of planning […]
  • Hang Hua, Advancing Generative AI for Multimodal Intelligence - When: Friday, 3/7 11 am – 12 pm; Where: Tyler Hall 055. Abstract: Generative AI is transforming how machines interact with and augment human capabilities. However, achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI) requires addressing significant challenges in retrained language models (PLM) and multimodal large language models (MLLMs), including the brittleness of language model fine-tuning, imbalanced vision-language […]

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