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[Talk] Tina-Marie Ranalli: An HCI approach to identifying ways to better design computing technologies to meet the unique needs of medieval research

medieval writings

When: Friday, October 3, 3:00 PM Where: Tyler 055 Abstract: Medievalists are scholars, within the larger discipline of the humanities, who specialize in studying various aspects of the Middle Ages, which roughly took place from the year 500 to 1500 C.E., though it varies from culture to culture. In this work, we use a human-computer […]

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[Talk] Suresh Venkatasubramanian – Are we winning yet? Frames, measurements, and tools for AI governance.

Suresh Venkatasubramanian

When: 9/26/25 3:00 PM Where: Tyler 055 Abstract: 2025 feels like the year that we started to throw caution to the winds when it came to AI deployment. AI policy priorities have shifted almost 180 degrees, global cooperation has been replaced by talk of American dominance, and the relentless march of LLMs into every nook […]

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[Talk] Omar Montasser – Beyond Worst-Case Online Classification

Omar Montasser

When: 9/19/25 3:00 PM Where: Tyler 055 Abstract: In this talk, we revisit online binary classification by shifting the focus from competing with the best-in-class binary loss to competing against relaxed benchmarks that capture smoothed notions of optimality. Instead of measuring regret relative to the exact minimal binary error — a standard approach that leads […]

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Abdeltawab Hendawi awarded Best Demo Paper at IEEE conference

Abdeltawab Hendawi

Abdeltawab Hendawi was awarded Best Demo Paper at the 26th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM) in June. The project investigates how real-time, user-contributed data combined with large language models (LLMs) can transform pedestrian navigation on urban sidewalks, especially for those with differing mobility needs. The work includes development of algorithms, spatial data […]

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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 […]

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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 – […]

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Two Computer Science students honored at URI Black Scholar awards

Amoy Scott (right) pictured with Sarah Brown, Assistant Professor of Computer Science

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, […]

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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 […]

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