URI ocean engineering professor Brennan Phillips has developed a deep-sea video system that is being used to record sharks in some of the most remote locations of the ocean.
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Working for a startup robotics company in France, Ian McElroy, an alumnus of URI’s International Engineering Program, is using technology to make parking at airports a stress-free experience. Ian earned bachelor’s degrees from URI in ocean engineering and French last spring.
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URI ocean engineering professor Stephan Grilli was interviewed by the BBC about the tsunami models he ran after the collapsed Anak Krakatau volcano in Indonesia.
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URI Assistant Professor Yalda Shahriari is researching a new way for patients with severe motor deficits to communicate by analyzing patterns in their brain wave activity using two non-invasive techniques.
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URI civil and environmental engineering alumna Rachel Dooley was named to the Engineering News-Record New England’s Class of 2020 Top Young Professionals.
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Brennan Phillips, URI assistant professor of ocean engineering, and two of his students, tested soft grippers and other research equipment on an expedition off the coast of Hawaii. The equipment will be used to study the world’s most delicate deep-sea species.
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Representing government, academia and industry, experts in cyber-physical systems security gathered at the University of Rhode Island on Oct. 18-19 to discuss the advancements and challenges that exist in this crucial field.
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University of Rhode Island engineering alumnus Bryan Reimer received the Jack A. Kraft Innovator Award from the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society at the organization’s annual meeting on Oct. 29.
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Professor Vinka Oyanedel-Craver and Kayla Kurtz, a doctoral candidate in civil and environmental engineering, are mentoring biology major Devyn Barraza on research related to how biofilm affects monitoring of Narragansett Bay.
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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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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.
Continue reading "Doctoral Student Wins Excellence Award for Research"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.
Continue reading "RA in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence"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.
Continue reading "Post-doc in Neural Engineering"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.
Continue reading "RA in Neuromodulation"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"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 […]
Continue reading "Recruiting Ph.D. Students in Cyber-Physical Security"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
Continue reading "RA in Smart City"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 […]
Continue reading "RA in Neural Signal Processing"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
Continue reading "RA in Networking"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 […]
Continue reading "RA in Aerial Robotics and Multi-robot Systems"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.
Continue reading "RA in High-Frequency Electronics"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"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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