IACR : Infrastructure

The IACR Infrastructure group provides URI researchers access to cutting-edge computing equipment (AI/Data/HPC/Quantum), software and hands-on training, support and consultancy to enable computational research. The IACR’s Infrastructure group is led by Kevin Bryan and includes Cecile Cres and Christian Vye. A quick snapshot of the IACR resources is available here: IACR at-a-glance.

What’s New?

Services & Resources

Other Related Resources

Here are some services offered by various other URI departments and organizations, which often are relevant to researchers:

  • URI Library AI Guide: Resources related to AI use, tools, etc. for faculty/staff are maintained by the URI Library.
  • URI VPN Service: This is often needed for accessing some servers and services from off-campus and abroad. If you’re planning to travel abroad and need this service, it’s especially important to set this up ahead of time, before you leave — it’s quite difficult to set up while abroad.
  • Consultation on related IT services (VPN, security, secure data transfers, SSL certificates, etc.)
  • Safari (O’Reilly) Online Books and Videos: A great collection of technical reference books and some training videos on a wide variety of technical topics — e.g. programming, data science, artificial intelligence, etc.  The URI Library has acquired access for anyone with a URI email address.
  • URI ITS Training Courses: Periodically offered introductory courses covering a wide range of topics, including the Google Suite, draw.io, Excel, Video management and caption, and more!

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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