Category: Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical

Office of Naval Research awards $4.7M for cyber-physical security and resilience

Four University of Rhode Island engineering professors have been awarded a $4.7 million grant from the Office of Naval Research to advance the security and resilience of AI-enabled power grids, promote workforce development, and secure manufacturing environments. The three-year project, “Advancing Research on Cyber-Physical Security and Resilience: A Multifaceted Approach,” will be led by principal […]

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Weiwei Jia Receives NSF CRII Award

University of Rhode Island (URI) computer engineering assistant professor Weiwei Jia was selected for a National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) Award for his groundbreaking proposal, “A Novel Address Translation Architecture for Virtualized Clouds.” This award supports early-career scientists in computer and information science engineering, enabling them […]

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URI Chemical Engineering Professor Granted NSF CAREER Award

Story by Krysta Murray Ryan Poling-Skutvik, assistant chemical engineering professor at the University of Rhode Island (URI), was granted a 5-year $589,933 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to conduct research and education activities for “Telechelic Triblock Copolymers As a Platform to Design Functional Colloidal Gels.” The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program […]

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e-Week 2024! Join Us!

e-Week is a week-long series of events dedicated to highlighting the incredible achievements and innovations of our engineering students. Highlights include: International Engineering Program block party, inspiring talks, research showcase, student organizations recognition night, employer networking opportunities, capstone design showcase, college picnic, and more! This will be a unique opportunity to come together, celebrate our […]

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Engineering Professors, Business Receive $75,000 Grant from RI Commerce Corp.

URI Engineering professors Richard Vaccaro and Musa Jouneh received a $75,000 innovation grant from RI Commerce Corporation for engineering development work with a startup company, Kinesia. The grant, which runs from January to August 2024, will pay for the creation of a prototype for an aid to human rehabilitation from orthopedic and neurological injuries. Mechanical […]

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New URI lab developing adaptive technology, secures National Science Foundation grant

Reza Abiri and Yalda Shahriari, professors in URI’s College of Engineering, are building a new robotic platform that can help post-stroke patients perform needed rehabilitation and regain motor skills in the wake of a stroke, including to reach for, grasp and hold on to that all-important cup to start the day. 

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Researchers Developing High-Tech Armband for Opioid-Use Disorder

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 280,000 people in the U.S. died from overdoses involving prescription opioids from 1999 to 2021. In 2021, overdoses involving opioids—including prescription opioids, heroin, and synthetic opioids such as fentanyl—killed more than 80,000 people, 10 times the number of those killed in 1999.

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Student Led Team Receives Artificial Intelligence Award

A URI graduate student’s paper was recently awarded “Best Student Paper Finalist” for the 2023 Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics conference. Emadodin Jandaghi and Xiaotian Chen’s work was overseen by Associate Professor and Advisor Chengzhi Yuan. As the name suggests, soft robotics involves using flexible materials in an increasingly wide variety of uses, from medical applications to […]

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COE Welcomes New Faculty

Mehrshad Amini, Assistant Professor, CVE/OCE Dr. Mehrshad Amini will join the University of Rhode Island in Fall 2023 as an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Ocean Engineering. He completed his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Pennsylvania State University in 2021. […]

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How Smart is Your T-Shirt?

By Hugh Markey One of the most popular uses for Smart Watches and other devices is cardio monitoring during exercise. Users can quickly check their pulse as they run down the road or bike around the block, giving feedback on physical stressors. But what about the rest of the time when things such as stress […]

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URI Engineering Fulbright Scholar!

Heather DiFazio ’23 will conduct research at the University of Bern, Switzerland, relating to the development of an artificial intelligence module for a surgical intraoperative diagnostic device that can differentiate between tumors and healthy tissue.   DiFazio is a graduating senior in URI’s International Engineering Program, majoring in biomedical engineering and German. She is from […]

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