This summer camp introduces students to foundational concepts in AI and quantum computing through guided activities, demos, and discussions led by URI faculty and students.
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Spring ’26 semester workshops
The details of our Spring ‘26 semester workshops appear below. These are open to faculty, staff, and students and are totally free.
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The IACR is supporting a student-led Hackathon initiative. Additional information about the event is available here: https://hackaturi.com/.
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We’re pleased to announce that starting in January ’26 we are adding 2 postdocs and a graduate student to help advance IACR activities.
Continue reading "IACR staffing update: postdocs, students"Faculty Spotlight: Roxanne Beinart (GSO)
While URI researchers need not require exceptional computational power to benefit from its research computing resources, sometimes it is downright essential to have a bit more oomph. That is the case for Dr. Roxanne Beinart, an Associate Professor of Oceanography at the Graduate School of Oceanography.
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The White House issued a new Executive Order launching the “Genesis Mission,” a large-scale national effort led by the Department of Energy to accelerate AI-enabled scientific discovery.
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A detailed AI Lab — Fall ’25 Report is available here.
Continue reading "AI Lab — Fall ’25 Report"Faculty Spotlight: Manshu Yang (Psychology)
Dr. Yang is an Associate Professor of Quantitative Health Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Rhode Island and co-director of the Behavioral Science Ph. D. program.
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Decoding the Tree of Life: How Research Computing Enables Large-Scale Genomics at URI At the University of Rhode Island, the push to answer fundamental questions about evolutionary history increasingly relies on massive computational power. For Dr. Rachel Schwartz, an Associate Professor who runs a “dry lab” focused on computational evolutionary genetics, access to URI’s research […]
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Here are some potentially interesting opportunities for IACR students. The Microsoft one is also open to faculty.
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