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- URI CS Connect Day — A full day of connection, insight, and career preparation - 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 - 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 - 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.
[Talk] Ed Lamagna: From Punched Cards to Quantum Cryptography: A Personal Retrospective on 50 Years of Computer Science - When: Friday, April 24, 3:30 PMWhere: Beaupre 105 Abstract:Ed Lamagna, Professor of Computer Science at URI, has served on the URI faculty for 50 years, arriving in the Fall of 1976. His professional interests lie at the intersection of computer science and mathematics. In particular, Ed contributes to the fields of computer algebra and the […]
[Talk] Suzanne Mello-Stark: Election Security After 2020: Systems Held, Trust Didn’t - When: Friday, April 24, 3:30 PMWhere: Beaupre 105 Abstract:This talk argues that the biggest threat to elections today is not hacking, but doubt. Since 2020, election systems have become more secure. Paper ballots, risk-limiting audits, and improved coordination have made large-scale tampering with votes extremely difficult. But while the systems held, confidence in them did […]
[Talk] Hoon Cho: Enabling Collaborative Genomic Studies with Privacy - When: Friday, April 17, 3:00 PMWhere: Tyler 055 AbstractThe sensitive nature of genomic data poses major challenges for data sharing and collaboration in biomedicine. Traditional safeguards often lead to fragmentation across data silos, hindering large-scale analysis. I will describe our recent work on secure federated (SF) algorithms, which combine cryptography and distributed computation to enable […]
Recent Awards
Alina Barnett Wins Foundation Grant to Improve AI Breast Cancer Diagnosis - 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 - 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. […]
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 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 […]- 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 […]
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.
Seminars and Colloquia
- [Talk] MEDFORD: A human- and machine-readable metadata markup language - 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 […]
- [Talk] Ed Lamagna: From Punched Cards to Quantum Cryptography: A Personal Retrospective on 50 Years of Computer Science - When: Friday, April 24, 3:30 PMWhere: Beaupre 105 Abstract:Ed Lamagna, Professor of Computer Science at URI, has served on the URI faculty for 50 years, arriving in the Fall of 1976. His professional interests lie at the intersection of computer science and mathematics. In particular, Ed contributes to the fields of computer algebra and the […]
- [Talk] Suzanne Mello-Stark: Election Security After 2020: Systems Held, Trust Didn’t - When: Friday, April 24, 3:30 PMWhere: Beaupre 105 Abstract:This talk argues that the biggest threat to elections today is not hacking, but doubt. Since 2020, election systems have become more secure. Paper ballots, risk-limiting audits, and improved coordination have made large-scale tampering with votes extremely difficult. But while the systems held, confidence in them did […]
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