Associate Professor Ocean Engineering 401.874.6879 loravu@uri.edu Office Location: Sheets 213, Narragansett Bay Campus Lab: Ocean Platforms, Experiments, and Research in Acoustics Laboratory Recent Grants1 Grant 1/17/2023. PI. Office of Naval Research. “Acoustic Receiving at Long Ranges using Mobile Platforms.” 12/29/2021. PI. Office of Naval Research. “Acoustic Receiving at Long Ranges using Mobile Platforms.” 4/16/2021. PI. […]
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Richard Vaccaro’s Research Profile
Professor Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering 401.874.5816 Fax: 401.782.6422 vaccaro@uri.edu Office Location: Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 489 Recent Grants1 Grant 8/8/2023. PI. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Gain-Phase Calibration for Sensor Arrays.” 6/21/2021. PI. Office of Naval Research. “EGR: Vaccaro: ONR: IEEE Underwater Acoustic Signal Processing Workshop Series.” 7/31/2017. Co-PI. Electro Standards Laboratories. “Tradeoff in […]
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Professor and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering 401.874.5802 Fax: 401.782.6422 swaszek@uri.edu Office Location: Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 292 Recent Publications1 Citation Swaszek PF, Hartnett RJ, Bransby M, Grant A. Spoof Detection in the Maritime Domain Using Pairs of Bearing Measurements. Proceedings of the 33rd International Technical Meeting of the […]
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Simon Ostrach Distinguished Professor Mechanical, Industrial and Systems Engineering 401.874.2283 Fax: 401.874.2355 shuklaa@uri.edu Office Location: Kirk 133 Lab: Dynamic Photo Mechanics Laboratory Recent Grants1 Grant 2/2/2023. PI. Office of Naval Research. “NIUVT: Complex Underwater Implosion Phenomena and Mitigation of Implosion and Implosion Pulses in Marine Composite Structures.” 1/27/2023. PI. Office of Naval Research. “NIUVT – […]
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According to a Parkinson’s Foundation study, 1.2 million people in the United States will have Parkinson’s disease by 2030. A smart glove that can collect data based on the movements of those living with the disease and other movement disorders is being developed by URI Associate Professor Kunal Mankodiya.
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Professor Research Ocean Engineering 401.874.6591 gpotty@uri.edu Office Location: Middleton 115, Narragansett Bay Campus Recent Grants1 Grant 3/28/2023. Co-PI. US Department of the Interior (DOI). “Sediment-borne Wave Disturbances and Propagation and Potential Effects on Benthic Fauna.” 3/7/2023. Co-PI. HDR / e2M. “FIELD OBSERVATIONS DURING OFFSHORE WIND STRUCTURE INSTALLATION AND EARLY OPERATION.” 9/1/2022. Co-PI. TRITON Systems, Inc. […]
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Professor Ocean Engineering 401.874.6540 miller@uri.edu Office Location: Sheets 111, Narragansett Bay Campus Recent Grants1 Grant 3/28/2023. PI. US Department of the Interior (DOI). “Sediment-borne Wave Disturbances and Propagation and Potential Effects on Benthic Fauna.” 3/7/2023. PI. HDR / e2M “FIELD OBSERVATIONS DURING OFFSHORE WIND STRUCTURE INSTALLATION AND EARLY OPERATION”. 9/1/2022. Co-PI. TRITON Systems, Inc. “Navy […]
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Professor Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering 401.874.5661 kunalm@uri.edu Office Location: Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 388 Lab: Wearable Biosensing Lab Recent Grants1 Grant 9/1/22. PI. Rhode Island Hospital. “Reducing Internalized Stigma in Epilepsy: A Behavioral Online Video Education (RISE ABOVE)”. 12/21/2021. PI. RI Commerce Corporation. “Characterization of Smart Textile Sensor of Human Movement”. 9/14/2021. PI. […]
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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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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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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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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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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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Adjunct Full Professor Mechanical, Industrial, & Systems Engineering 401.874.2524 agagnostopoulos@uri.edu Office Location: Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 304 Recent Publications1 Citation Kumar A, Heidari-Bafroui H, Charbaji A, Faghri M, Anagnostopoulos C. Paper-Based Bi-Material Cantilever Actuator Bending Behavior and Modeling. Micromachines, 2023; 14(924). Doi: 10.3390/mi14050924 Kumar A, Heidari-Bafroui H, Charbaji A, Faghri M, Anagnostopoulos C. Development […]
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Professor Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering 401.874.2874 tao_wei@uri.edu Office Location: Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 419 Lab: Next Generation Sensing Technology Lab Lab: High Performance Computing Laboratory (HPCL) Recent Grants1 Grant 8/27/2022. Co-PI. National Science Foundation. “CYPHER: CISE-CCF-SHF: Introducing a New In-Sensor Computing Architecture for Intelligent 3-D Imaging Systems.” 7/29/2022. Co-PI. National Science Foundation. “CYPHER: […]
Continue reading "Tao Wei’s Research Profile"The Sky is the Limit for Wearable Technology
Kunal Mankodiya’s Wearable Biosensing Lab is working to create wearable systems, such as smart clothes and socks, which can non-invasively track patient metrics and provide a window for medical professionals.
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Vanessa Kamara’s hard work and thirst for knowledge has paid off, as the URI biomedical engineering major earned an undergraduate research grant to study a flexible, biodegradable, self-powering sensor.
Continue reading "A Student’s Journey in Undergraduate Research"Prof. Otto Gregory Creates Prototype to Detect Bombs
“The Digital Dog Nose,” created by Otto Gregory, chemical engineering professor at the University of Rhode Island, could be placed at subway stations, train stations, airports and ports to detect bombs.
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Dr. Gregory says that in closed spaces like airports, the sensor can detect amounts as small as 1 part per billion.
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