IACR : Research Collaboration

The IACR runs a wide range of collaborative research supporting and growth activities including networking events, seminars, regional collaboration activities, interdisciplinary & convergent “seed” funding programs, and more. The IACR’s Research group is led by Michael Puerrer and includes Abdeltawab Hendawi, Joan Peckham, Marco Alvarez, and Wenchao Ge.The Institute does not have its own research agenda or program — rather it serves as a focal point for computational researchers at URI and in the region with the goal of strengthening research collaboration and networking. A quick snapshot of the IACR resources is available here: IACR at-a-glance.

Faculty researchers from across the university engage with the IACR in a wide variety of ways. A partial list of the affiliated faculty appears below.

Arts & Sciences

Neutron Star Merger

Big Data • Quantum Computation • Computational Relativity & Astrophysics • Machine Learning Applications • Digital Humanities & Art • Mathematical Modeling

Department of Physics

Department of Computer Science & Statistics

Department of Mathematics & Applied Mathematical Sciences

Department of Chemistry

Harrington School of Communication & Media

Department of Art & Art History

Business

Big Data • Computational Finance • Machine Learning Applications

Department of Finance

Department of Business Analytics & Information Systems

Department of Accounting

Department of Supply Chain Management

Department of Marketing

Engineering

Molecular Dynamics

Materials Research • HPC  • Engineering Optimization • Molecular Dynamics • Computational Mechanics

Chemical, Biomolecular & Materials Engineering

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Electrical, Computer & Biomedical Engineering

Mechanical, Industrial & Systems Engineering

Ocean Engineering

Environment & Life Sciences

Molecular Ecology

Big Data • Computational Molecular Ecology • Computational Evolutionary Genetics • Machine Learning Applications

Department of Natural Resources Science

Department of Fisheries, Animal & Veterinary Sciences

Department of Biological Sciences

Department of Cell & Molecular Biology

Institute for Immunology & Informatics (I‑Cubed)

Department of Environmental & Natural Resource Economics

Department of Geosciences

Nursing

Health Sciences

Big Data • Computational Social Science • Machine Learning Applications

Department of Nutrition & Food Sciences

Department of Psychology

Department of Human Development & Family Science

Oceanography

Ocean Currents

Big Data • Physical Oceanography • Seismology • Machine Learning Applications 

Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO)

Pharmacy

Big Data • Bioinformatics

Department of Pharmacy Practice & Clinical Research

Department of Biomedical & Pharmaceutical Sciences

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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