Xueshen Zhang worked in the Power Electronics Laboratory starting in 2021. His achievements include internship experiences at Infineon, Eaton Corporation, and another at REED Semiconductor. He also earned a Dean’s Fellowship, a stellar GPA and was published in multiple journal and conference publications. In addition, he served as a graduate student advisor for the IFEC […]
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Zachary Notarianni, of Cranston, Rhode Island, secured a position as a software engineer at McLaughlin Research Corporation earlier this semester. Following completion of his bachelor’s in computer engineering at the University of Rhode Island, he was awarded a Raymond. M. Wright Accelerated B.S./M.S. Scholarship in recognition of his hard work. Notarianni chose to obtain a […]
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University of Rhode Island computer and electrical engineering sophomore Helen Ly ’28, of Providence, Rhode Island, was awarded an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Power and Energy Society scholarship for 2026. Two hundred forty-four PES scholars were selected this year across the U.S., Canada and Latin America. These undergraduate students are majoring in one […]
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Christian Apollon, ‘o7, announced a new collaboration between the University of Rhode Island and Cranium Inc., a startup he co-founded.
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The University of Rhode Island held the biannual IEEE Underwater Acoustic Signal Processing Workshop last month. The workshop has been hosted at University of Rhode Island every other year since 1985. Formed as a collaboration between Naval Undersea Warfare Center, formerly Naval Underwater Systems Center, and electrical engineering faculty at URI’s College of Engineering. NUWC […]
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In the final semester of his master’s degree program, Ali Rabiee, of Tehran, Iran, was searching for a Ph.D. program in robotics. He found what he was seeking when he came across Reza Abiri’s lab. “I’m passionate about building robots that improve people’s lives,” said Rabiee. “I focus on medical robotics, especially with assistive and […]
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The University of Rhode Island College of Engineering is pleased to announce the addition of four new faculty members this semester. Their hiring supports the college’s dedication to research and teaching excellence. Guoyi Xu joins the college as an assistant professor after recently completing his position as a postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia University. He […]
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The University of Rhode Island has launched the Institute for AI & Computational Research (IACR), a new initiative designed to position URI as a leader in artificial intelligence (AI), data science, high-performance computing, and quantum computing.
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University of Rhode Island assistant professor Weiwei Jia was recently awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his project “Redefining Memory Virtualization in Clouds” to research how to substantially improve the performance and cost-efficiency of next-generation cloud computing applications and systems.
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Professor Reza Abiri’s work aims to help people with severe motor impairment to interact with their environment naturally and independently
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