IACR : Edu & Outreach (AI Lab)

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The IACR offers workshops every semester that cover topics such as Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Data Science, Generative AI, and Programming Languages like R and Python. The Institute also offers consultation and collaboration opportunities covering a wide range of specializations in the broad context of AI. Here are some examples of the student-led projects from Summer ’25.

The IACR’s Education and Outreach (AI Lab) group is led by Indrani Mandal and includes Cecile Cres, Joan Peckham, Yan Sun, Karen Lokey and Amanda Jenson. A quick snapshot of the IACR resources is available here: IACR at-a-glance.

AI Lab Hours Address Workshop
Monday – Friday

10:00 AM – 4:00 PM

 

Carothers Library
15 Lippitt Rd.
Kingston, RI 02881
Room 147
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Additional resources related to AI use, tools, etc. for faculty/staff are maintained by the URI Library and are available here: https://uri.libguides.com/ai

Email us at iacr-group@uri.edu with questions, comments, suggestions — anything!

News

  • IACR seed funding program is back! - I’m really happy to report that over FY ’25, ~70 submitted proposals included the CCR as an affiliated Center/Institute and historically we have averaged a ~50% acceptance rate. Thank YOU for your strong support. Today, we are continuing one of our key programs that invests these indirect cost return funds back into the URI computational […]
  • Fall ’25 AI/ML Seminars - The full schedule for a Fall semester AI/ML seminar series is developing! Please find the details here: https://web.uri.edu/iacr/seminars/ The first seminar this semester is by Scott Field from UMass Dartmouth on “Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Modeling Orbital Dynamics in Binary Black Hole Systems“. Hope to see you there!
  • URI gets nod in LIGO media blitz! - Our own computational researchers Deborah Ferguson, Derek Davis and Rob Coyne are credited in LIGO’s 10th anniversary of the first detection media blitz! https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/ten-years-later-ligo-is-a-black-hole-hunting-machineand even the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/science/gravitational-waves-ligo-black-holes.htmlAnd here as well .. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ringing-black-hole-test-hawking-kerr Congratulations folks! Wow!!
  • Fall ’25 Workshops - The details of our Fall ’25 semester workshops appear below. These are open to faculty, staff, and students and are totally free. https://docs.unity.uri.edu/news/2025/08/uri-fall-25-workshops/They also appear on the URI events calendar (and subscribe): https://events.uri.edu/group/ai We have some relatively new workshop offerings on AI Tools and Bioinformatics. We also have a new workshop on MPI parallel computing […]
  • Summer ’25 AI Lab Student Projects - We are happy to share the wide variety of completed student projects in the AI Lab over Summer ’25: https://web.uri.edu/iacr/ai-lab-projects-summer-25/
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