At the University of Rhode Island, three engineering professors have taken different paths to transform basic research into life-altering technologies—and the companies to deliver them.
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Inspiring Student Researchers Leads to Career at Adobe
Tong Sun (‘96) was recruited to URI in 1992 byProfessor Qing “Ken” Yang. Sun joined a lab studying high-performance computer systems processing massive amounts of scientific data like nuclear reactions, physics simulations and weather forecasts. Under Yang’s guidance, his student researchers aimed to make computers think and calculate faster to solve problems quicker.
Continue reading "Inspiring Student Researchers Leads to Career at Adobe"Xueshen Zhang, Ph.D. ’26
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 […]
Continue reading "Master’s student demonstrates significance of staying curious"Engineering sophomore awarded an IEEE Power and Energy Society scholarship
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 […]
Continue reading "Engineering sophomore awarded an IEEE Power and Energy Society scholarship"URI engineering ‘07 alumnus returns to campus to announce a partnership with his startup
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 […]
Continue reading "2025 Biannual IEEE Underwater Acoustic Signal Processing Workshop"Grad student seeks to build impactful medical robotics
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 […]
Continue reading "Grad student seeks to build impactful medical robotics"College of Engineering welcomes four new faculty members
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 […]
Continue reading "College of Engineering welcomes four new faculty members"URI launches new institute to lead in AI and computational research
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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