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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Set Sail for Innovation: Hack@URI 2026
The IACR is supporting a student-led Hackathon initiative. Additional information about the event is available here: https://hackaturi.com/.
Continue reading "Set Sail for Innovation: Hack@URI 2026"IACR staffing update: postdocs, students
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.
Continue reading "Faculty Spotlight: Manshu Yang (Psychology)"Faculty Spotlight: Rachel Schwartz (Biology)
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 […]
Continue reading "Faculty Spotlight: Rachel Schwartz (Biology)"Open opportunities
Here are some potentially interesting opportunities for IACR students. The Microsoft one is also open to faculty.
Continue reading "Open opportunities"Faculty Spotlight: Rob Coyne (Physics)
Here at the University of Rhode Island, research computing isn’t just about high-performance computing (HPC) and powerful servers – it’s about enabling and fostering discovery. For Dr. Rob Coyne, Teaching Professor and a researcher, access to URI’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence & Computational Research (IACR) has been essential in advancing his work on some of the most extreme phenomena in the Universe: gamma-ray bursts and gravitational waves.
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