Research – Page 8 – College of Engineering

Stephen Licht’s Research Profile

Associate Professor Ocean Engineering 401.874.6028 slicht@uri.edu Office Location: Sheets 211, Narragansett Bay Campus Lab: Robotics Laboratory for Complex Underwater Environments Recent Grants1 Grant 6/14/2023. Co-PI. Dartmouth College. “RII Track-2 FEC: Computational Methods and Autonomous Robotics Systems for Modeling and predicting Harmful Cyanobacterial Blooms.” 3/8/2023. PI. Office of Naval Research. “Quantitative soft gripper design tools to […]

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K. Wayne Lee’s Research Profile

Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering 401.874.2695 Fax: 401.874.2786 leekw@uri.edu Office Location: Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 206 Research Center: Rhode Island Transportation Research Center Recent Grants1 Grant 10/10/2018. PI. University of Maine. “University Transportation Center Regional 1.” Recent Publications1 Citation Al-Mansour A, Lee K-WW, Al-Qaili AH. Prediction of Pavement Maintenance Performance Using an Expert System. […]

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Steven Kay’s Research Profile

Professor Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering 401.874.5804 skayy@uri.edu Office Location: Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 493 Personal Website Recent Grants1 Grant Portion Amount 11/22/2016. PI. Defense Engineering Corporation. “Information-Theoretic Approaches to Radar Waveform Design.” $108,500.00 (100%) 12/17/2015. PI. Defense Engineering Corporation. “Information-Theoretic Approaches to Radar Waveform Design.” $79,500.00 (100%) 9/15/2015. PI. Metron, Inc. “High Quality/Low […]

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Haibo He’s Research Profile

Robert Haas Endowed Professor Electrical, Computer & Biomedical Engineering 401.874.5645 Fax: 401.782.6422 haibohe@uri.edu Office Location: Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 411 Lab: Computational Intelligence and Self-Adaptive Systems (CISA) Laboratory Recent Grants1 Grant 6/18/2019. PI. National Science Foundation, “Collaborative Research: Autonomous Hierarchical Adaptive Dynamic Programming for Decision Making in Complex Environment” Recent Publications1 Citation Li H, […]

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M. Reza Hashemi’s Research Profile

Associate Professor Ocean Engineering 401.874.6217 reza_hashemi@uri.edu Office Location: Sheets 212, Narragansett Bay Campus Lab: Wave Current Interaction Laboratory, Ocean Technology Center Recent Grants1 Grant 9/27/2921. Co-PI. Department of Energy. “Design, optimization, and control of floating offshore wind farms for optimal energy production.” 10/30/2018. Co-PI. Restore America’s Estuaries. “An Integrated Observational and Modeling Approach to […]

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Stéphan Grilli’s Research Profile

Distinguished Engineering Professor Ocean Engineering 401.874.6636 Fax: 401.874.6837 grilli@uri.edu Office Location: Sheets 215, Narragansett Bay Campus Recent Grants1 Grant 5/18/2023. Co-PI. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration/Department of Commerce. “CI – Modeling, Visualizing and Communicating Nor’esters, Hurricanes Threats with Sea-Level Rise to Support Coastal Management of New England.” 9/20/2022. Co-PI. Northeast States Emergency Consortium. “United States […]

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Annette Grilli’s Research Profile

Professor Research Ocean Engineering 401.874.6029 Fax: 401.874.6837 annette_grilli@uri.edu Office Location: Sheets 216, Narragansett Bay Campus Recent Grants1 Grant 5/18/2023. Co-PI. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration/Department of Commerce. “CI – Modeling, Visualizing and Communicating Nor’esters, Hurricanes Threats with Sea-Level Rise to Support Coastal Management of New England.” 9/20/2022. Co-PI. Northeast States Emergency Consortium. “United States East […]

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Otto Gregory’s Research Profile

Distinguished Engineering Professor Chemical Engineering 401.874.2085 Fax: 401.874.4689 ogregory@uri.edu Office Location: Kirk 213 Lab: Thin Film Sensors Laboratory Recent Grants1 Grant 7/20/2023. PI. Northeastern University “Soft target Engineering to Neutralize the Threat RealitY (SENTRY).” 3/10/2023. PI.Pratt & Whitney. “CMC Sensor Development.” 9/7/2022. Co-PI. Northeastern University. “Dual Use Chemical Sensors Sentry-Soft Target Engineering to Neutralize the […]

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Joseph Goodwill’s Research Profile

Associate Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering 401.874.2889 goodwill@uri.edu Office Location: Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 312 Lab Website: Water for the World Environmental Engineering Lab Lab Website: Rhode Island Water Resources Center Recent Grants1 Grant 7/28/2023. Co-PI. Brown University. on the Arts & Humanities. “Leveraging magnetic separations to enable particle removal in Martian water reuse.” […]

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Mayrai Gindy’s Research Profile

Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering 401.874.5587 Fax: 401.874.2786 mayraig@uri.edu Office Location: Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 205 Recent Grants1 Grant 10/24/2022. Co-PI. University of Maine. “Vision-Based Detection of Bridge Damage Captured by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.” 9/3/2022. Co-PI. University of Maine. “Vision-Based Detection of Bridge Damage Captured by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.” Recent Publications1 Citation Asadi P, Gindy […]

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Hamouda Ghonem’s Research Profile

Distinguished Engineering Professor Mechanical, Industrial & Systems Engineering 401.874.2909 Fax: 401.874.2355 ghonem@uri.edu Office Location: Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 212 Lab: Mechanics of Materials Research Laboratory Recent Publications1 Citation Spader D, Maciejewski K, Ghonem H. Distribution of Grain Boundary Carbides in Inconel 617 Subjected to Creep at 900 °C and 950 °C. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A: Physical Metallurgy […]

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Godi Fischer’s Research Profile

Professor Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering 401.874.5879 Fax: 401.782.6422 fischer@uri.edu Office Location: Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 417 Recent Grants1 Grant Portion Amount 8/29/2018. Co-PI. Greene Tweed & Co., Inc. “RFID for Bolt Identification with Sensing Capability.” $24,750.00 (33%) of total $75,000.00 7/12/2018. PI. “A High Resolution Data Acquisition System For Brain Imaging Applications.” $49,989.00 (100%) […]

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Mohammad Faghri’s Research Profile

Professor Mechanical, Industrial & Systems Engineering 401.874.5180 Fax: 401.874.2355 faghri@uri.edu Office Location: Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 306 Recent Publications1 Citation Kumar A, Heidari-Bafroui H, Rahmani N, Anagnostopoulos C, Faghri M. Modeling of Paper-Based Bi-Material Cantilever Actuator for Microfluidic Biosensors. Biosensors, 2023; 13(530). doi: 10.3390/bios13060580 Kumar A, Heidari-Bafroui H, Charbaji A, Faghri M, Anagnostopoulos C. […]

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Philip Datseris’s Research Profile

Professor Mechanical, Industrial and Systems Engineering 401.874.2355 Fax: 401.874.2355 pdatseris@uri.edu Office Location: Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 291 1view our research profile criteria

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Sumanta Das’s Research Profile

Associate Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering 401.874.5637 sumanta_das@uri.edu Office Location: Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 211 Lab: Multiscale & Multiphysics Mechanics of Materials Research Laboratory Recent Grants1 Grant 12/21/2021. Co-PI. URI Research Foundation. “Strain Sensing Scrims for Composite Monitoring.” 9/14/2021. Co-PI. University of Maine/US Department of Transportation. “Design and Development of High-Performance Composites for Improved […]

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Jason Dahl’s Research Profile

Associate Professor Ocean Engineering 401.874.6122 Fax: 401.874.6837 jmdahl@uri.edu Office Location: 217 Sheets, Narragansett Bay Campus Recent Grants1 Grant 7/1/22. PI. University of Connecticut Avery Point “NIUVT 2021 COMP 40 ; A fluid-structure-interaction methodology for designing metamaterial coatings for drag reduction” 7/1/22. PI. University of Connecticut Avery Point “NIUVT 2021 COMP 40 ; A fluid-structure-interaction […]

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“Flashlight Fish” Discovered by URI Professor and Research Team

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URI Assistant Professor of Ocean Engineering Brennan Phillips and a team of researchers discovered fish in the depths of the sea off the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific that were using bioluminescent flashes for “schooling.”

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Vinka Oyanedel-Craver’s Research Profile

Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering 401.874.2784 craver@uri.edu Office Location: Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 317 Lab Website: Water for the World Environmental Engineering Lab Lab Website: Rhode Island Water Resources Center Recent Grants1 Grant 6/14/2022. Co-PI. National Endowment for the Humanities/Natl. Fndn. on the Arts & Humanities. “A New Model for Integrated Humanities and Engineering […]

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David Chelidze’s Research Profile

Professor Mechanical, Industrial & Systems Engineering 401.874.2356 Fax:401.879.2355 chelidze@uri.edu Office Location: Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 219 Lab: Nonlinear Dynamics Laboratory Recent Grants1 Grant 12/19/2022. PI. RI Commerce Corporation. “Improving noise robustness in continuous thickness and velocity measurements during hot and cold rolling of metals.” 7/7/2022. PI. University of Connecticut Avery Point. “NIUVT 2021 Comp […]

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Richard Brown’s Research Profile

Professor Chemical Engineering 401.874.2707 Fax:401.874.4689 richardbrown@uri.edu Office Location: Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 311 Lab: Corrosion and Surfaces Laboratory Recent Grants1 Grant 2/23/2021. PI. University of Connecticut, Office of Naval Research “NIUVT 2020 SEED 20: Additive Manufacturing for Under Sea Applications.” 9/14/2020. PI. General Dynamics/Electric Boat. “Testing of Antifouling Paints.” Patents Tucker WC, Medeiros MG, […]

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Aaron Bradshaw’s Research Profile

Professor Civil & Environmental Engineering and Ocean Engineering (limited) 401.874.2680 abrads@uri.edu Office Location: Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 386 Recent Grants1 Grant 9/24/2020. PI. Triton systems, Department of Energy. “Geotechnical Support for Prototype Development of the Triton Anchor System.” 9/14/2021. PI. Undersea Technology Innovation Consortium. “Laterally Loaded Helical Piles.” 2/21/2019. PI. TRITON Systems, Inc. “Geotechnical […]

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Thomas Boving’s Research Profile

Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering 401.874.7053 Fax: 401.874.2190 tboving@uri.edu Office Location: Woodward 314 Recent Grants1 Grant 7/23/2018. PI. Strategic Environmental Research & Develop Program. “Innovative Treatment Approach for Investigation-Derived Waste Polluted with Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance.” 9/15/2017. Co-PI. RI Office of Housing & Commercial Development. “Assessment and Modeling of Saltwater Intrusion into Coastal Aquifers of […]

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Geoffrey Bothun’s Research Profile

Professor and Department Chair Chemical Engineering 401.874.9518 gbothun@uri.edu Office Location: Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 303 Lab: Bionanotechnology Lab Recent Grants1 Grant 7/20/2023. PI. National Science Foundation. “Collaborative Research: Magnetic Clustering using Novel Poly(amino acid) Corrals to Advance Magnetic Particle Imaging” 7/20/2023. PI. National Science Foundation. “Collaborative Research: Magnetic Clustering using Novel Poly(amino acid) Corrals […]

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Arijit Bose’s Research Profile

Distinguished Engineering Professor Chemical Engineering 401.874.2804 bosea@uri.edu Office Location: Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 305 Website: Laboratory for Colloids and Interfaces Recent Grants1 Grant Portion Amount 5/9/2018. PI. RI Science and Technology Advisory. “The Response of Marine Bacteria in Narragansett Bay to Microplastics – a Key Anthropogenic Stressor.” $80,000.00 (100%) 5/3/2018. PI. RI Commerce Corporation. […]

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Walter Besio’s Research Profile

Professor Electrical, Computer & Biomedical Engineering 401.874.4738 besio@uri.edu Office Location: Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 392 Lab: Neural Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory Recent Grants1 Grant 9/7/2022. University of Connecticut “Louis Stokes Renewal STEM Pathways and Research Alliance: Northeast LSAMP 2021-2026” 9/14/2021. PI. National Science Foundation. “Louis Stokes Renewal STEM Pathways and Research Alliance: Northeast LSAMP 2021-2026.” […]

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