{"id":34,"date":"2009-02-24T15:19:03","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T20:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cs.uri.edu\/wordpress\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2026-05-08T11:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:10:11","slug":"34-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/","title":{"rendered":"Front"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-panel-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-panel  \"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1531\/pathwaysimg.jpg\" srcset=\"\" alt=\"Pathways 2024 participants\"><\/figure><article><p><\/p>\n<h1>Welcome to CSta<\/h1>\n<p>We combine Computer Science, Statistics, AI, Data Science, and Cybersecurity to enhance multidisciplinary learning and research for undergrads and grads. Cross campus and industry collaborations involve faculty, students, scientists, artists, health care researchers, historians, and engineers.<\/p><\/article><\/div><\/section>\n\n<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-boxout-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-boxout  \"><h1>Undergraduate &amp; Graduate Courses<\/h1>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/academics\/course-listing\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/academics\/course-listing\/\">See our courses in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, and Cybersecurity<\/a>, ranging from computing foundations to theory and statistics to systems and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/academics\/#undergrad_studies\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1531\/feat_img_comp_sci.jpg\" srcset=\"\" alt=\"A monitor with code\"><\/div><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>Undergraduate Programs &amp; Specializations<\/h2><p>Our undergraduate curricula are aligned with the ACM Curriculum Guidelines and provide experiential learning opportunities in industry and research labs. Courses in artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, and human-centered computing.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/academics\/#grad_studies\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1531\/CyberSecurityGlobe.jpg\" srcset=\"\" alt=\"\"><\/div><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>Graduate Programs<\/h2><p>We offer M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Statistics, a graduate certificate in Cyber Security, and a PSM degree in Cyber Security. For selected full-time students, the department may offer teaching and research assistantships that pay a stipend and cover tuition, fees, and insurance.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/research\/\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1531\/manifold6_600_wps.jpg\" srcset=\"\" alt=\"A three-dimensional manifold\"><\/div><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>Research<\/h2><p>As our department encompasses both computer science and statistics, the areas of research are wide-ranging.  Faculty and students collaborate across URI with industry and government.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/academics\/icsp\/\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1531\/brandenburg_gate_600.jpg\" srcset=\"\" alt=\"International Computer Science Program student Richard Burke standing in front of the Brandenburg gate\"><\/div><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>International Program<\/h2><p>We collaborate with URI\u2019s International Engineering Program (IEP) and the Department of Languages to offer the unique International Computer Science Program (ICSP).<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Announcements<\/h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/noah-daniels-and-shaun-wallace-receive-nsf-fairos-grant-with-tufts-collaborators\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1531\/Shaun-Noah-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Noah Daniels and Shaun Wallace\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1531\/Shaun-Noah-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1531\/Shaun-Noah-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/noah-daniels-and-shaun-wallace-receive-nsf-fairos-grant-with-tufts-collaborators\/\">Noah Daniels and Shaun Wallace Receive NSF FAIROS Grant with Tufts Collaborators<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(5\/13\/2026)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">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. [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/talk-260424-0\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1531\/lamagna_300-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Edmund Lamagna\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/talk-260424-0\/\">[Talk] Ed Lamagna: From Punched Cards to Quantum Cryptography:\u00a0A Personal Retrospective on 50 Years of Computer Science<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(4\/22\/2026)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">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 [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/talk-260424-1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1531\/250818_suzanne_mello_stark_001-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Suzanne Mello-Stark\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1531\/250818_suzanne_mello_stark_001-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1531\/250818_suzanne_mello_stark_001-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/talk-260424-1\/\">[Talk] Suzanne Mello-Stark: Election Security After 2020: Systems Held, Trust Didn\u2019t<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(4\/22\/2026)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">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 [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/talk-260417\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1531\/cho_profile_300-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Hoon Cho\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1531\/cho_profile_300-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1531\/cho_profile_300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/talk-260417\/\">[Talk] Hoon Cho: Enabling Collaborative Genomic Studies with Privacy<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(4\/15\/2026)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">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 [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/shaun-wallace-named-2026-uri-ssirep-public-policy-fellow\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1531\/Shaun-Wallace_300-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Shaun Wallace\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1531\/Shaun-Wallace_300-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1531\/Shaun-Wallace_300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/shaun-wallace-named-2026-uri-ssirep-public-policy-fellow\/\">Shaun Wallace Named 2026 URI SSIREP Public Policy Fellow<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(4\/3\/2026)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Assistant Professor Shaun Wallace has been selected as a 2026 Public Policy Fellow through URI&#8217;s Social Science Institute for Research, Education, and Policy (SSIREP). Wallace&#8217;s fellowship project, &#8220;Exploring Cyber Dating Aggression in Real-Time Among Young Adults,&#8221; will prototype a web-based user-first privacy-preserving extraction pipeline for identifying cyber dating aggression (CDA) from their naturally occurring digital [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/talk-260410\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1531\/Anny-Claude-Joseph_300-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Anny-Claude Joseph\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1531\/Anny-Claude-Joseph_300-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1531\/Anny-Claude-Joseph_300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/talk-260410\/\">[Talk] Anny-Claude Joseph: Causal Inference under Spatial Interference<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(4\/2\/2026)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">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 [&hellip;]<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<a class=\"cl-button  \" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/news-and-events\/\" title=\"\">more<\/a>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announcements<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4688,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-34","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4688"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18551,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions\/18551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}