URI Assistant Professor Paolo Stegagno is collaborating with other engineering professors at URI and a team of scientists from other colleges to develop and deploy high-tech tools to understand where, when, and how cyanobacterial blooms form.
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Navy Selects Alumnus for Service Award
William Roman, who graduated from the University of Rhode Island with bachelor’s degrees in electrical and biomedical engineering in 2009, was one of seven people to receive the meritorious civilian service award from the Department of Navy at a ceremony on Oct. 18.
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University of Rhode Island Professor James Miller was hired by the town of East Greenwich to help settle a dispute between bar owners and residents over the sound level of music that is being played at the waterfront bars.
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Zhiqiang Wan, who is pursuing a doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Rhode Island, was named this year’s winner of the URI Graduate Student Research and Scholarship Excellence Award in Life Sciences, Physical Sciences and Engineering.
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A fully-funded Ph.D. RA position is available from Spring 2019 or Fall 2019 at the Computational Intelligence and Self-Adaptive Systems (CISA) Laboratory at the ECBE Department. More information can be found at: http://www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/he/. Interested students are encouraged to contact Prof. Haibo He at he@ele.uri.edu.
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We are recruiting a post-doc to design and conduct experiments that will impart information about cognitive processing of humans. The candidate should be experienced with electroencephalography (EEG), biosignal processing, deep learning, and data mining. For further information please contact Prof. Walter Besio at besio@uri.edu.
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A fully-funded Ph.D. RA position is available for the 2018-19 year. The candidate will: recruit participants, perform noninvasive transcranial focal electrical stimulation, record electroencephalography, analyze the biosignals, and format the data for dissemination. Interested students should contact Prof. Walter Besio at besio@uri.edu.
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A fully-funded RA position for PhD is available from Spring 2019 or Fall 2019 in the area of computer architecture. Good programming skills (C/C++/Python) is required. Background in compilers, operating systems, FPGAs is a plus. Please contact Resit Sendag at sendag@uri.edu if interested.
Continue reading "RA in Computer Architecture"Recruiting Ph.D. Students in Cyber-Physical Security
We are seeking applications for Ph.D. assistantships (covering tuition and stipend), starting in Fall 2019/Spring 2019, in the area of cyber-physical system security. The students will conduct research under the supervision of Dr. Yan Lindsay Sun, and work closely with Dr. Haibo He and other students on related projects. For more details, please see the full […]
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Two fully-funded Ph.D. RA positions are available from Fall 2019 at the Next Generation Sensing Technology Lab Laboratory at the ECBE Department. More information can be found at: http://egr.uri.edu/sensorlab/. Interested students are encouraged to contact Prof. Wei Tao at tao_wei@uri.edu
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The Neural Processing and Control Lab (NeuralPC Lab) in the ECBE Department has one Ph.D. position opening in the field of neural signal processing and brain-computer interface (BCI) systems from Spring 2019 or Fall 2019. We are seeking highly motivated and talented graduate student whose research interest lies at the intersection of neural engineering, cognitive […]
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Two fully funded Ph.D. RA positions are available from Spring 2019 or Fall 2019 in the intersection of networks, optimization and learning, with applications to Internet of Things, data centers, and clouds. More information can be found at: http://www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/binli/. Interested students are encouraged to contact Prof. Bin Li at binli@uri.edu
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A fully funded Ph.D. RA position is available from Spring 2019 or Fall 2019 in aerial robotics and multi-robot localization, estimation and coordination at the ECBE Department. Candidates should be familiar with C/C++ and Matlab. Experience with GNU/Linux and ROS is appreciated but not mandatory. Interested students are encouraged to contact Prof. Paolo Stegagno at […]
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Two fully funded Ph.D. RA positions are available from Spring 2019 or Fall 2019 in radio-frequency/mm-Wave integrated circuits, components, and systems with major applications to 5G/future-generation wireless communications, Internet of Things (IOT), advanced radar/imaging systems, etc. Interested students are encouraged to contact Prof. Kenle Chen at kenle_chen@uri.edu.
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Two fully funded Ph.D. positions are available from Fall/Spring 2020 in the area of hardware and computer security; deep learning modeling, hardware and security; emerging devices (e.g. non-volatile memory) based high performance circuits, systems and security; IoT and CPS security, etc. Candidates should be good at programming skills (HDL/C/C++/Python etc.). Previous experience in at least […]
Continue reading "RA in Hardware and Computer Security"Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Computer Engineering
Applications are invited for a tenure-track position in computer engineering at the rank of assistant professor beginning in Fall 2020. We are seeking candidates in computer engineering with expertise in security or privacy in cyber-physical systems, but outstanding candidates in all areas of computer engineering will be considered. This include but not limited to computer systems or architecture, networking, […]
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Not many people have the opportunity to mingle with astronauts. But when you work in a lab that is dedicated to human spaceflight, such opportunities occur. Rachel Bellisle, who graduated summa cum laude from the University of Rhode Island’s biomedical engineering program in 2018, is conducting research in bioastronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology […]
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Three interns in the Wearable Biosensing Laboratory at the University of Rhode Island’s College of Engineering won first place in the Astropreneurship, Space Medicine and the Dataverse Hackathon, held at Harvard University from June 8-9.
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University of Rhode Island College of Engineering alumnus Robert Hernandez has been named a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (PECASE), the nation’s highest award for scientists and engineers in the early stages of their research careers. Hernandez earned his master’s degree in electrical engineering from URI in 2010 and […]
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The Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Rhode Island has an opening for a full-time, tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level in the broadly defined area of Biomaterials.
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Researchers in URI’s College of Engineering are developing a device for detecting the explosive triacetone triperoxide (TATP) in its vapor form. Their new detection system, which pairs a conductance sensor with a traditional thermodynamic sensor, confirms the presence of TATP at the level of parts per billion.
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URI Assistant Professor Gretchen Macht and three URI students appeared before the Rhode Island Board of Elections recently to present a report on voter data that could be used in an app.
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The 32nd Annual Rhode Island Transportation Forum will take place at URI’s Fine Arts Center on Oct. 25. The theme will be “Durable Infrastructure for a Sustainable and Resilient Transportation System for Eternal Peace and Prosperity.”
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Barbara Morse Silva visited the URI College of Engineering to do a feature for Channel 10’s Health Check segment on the smart glove. The glove has been developed by Associate Professor Kunal Mankodiya and students in his lab to monitor patients with Parkinson’s disease.
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More than 500 people joined URI President David M. Dooley and College of Engineering Dean Raymond Wright on Oct. 7 to officially celebrate the opening of the Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering.
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