A detailed AI Lab — Fall ’25 Report is available here: https://web.uri.edu/iacr/ai-lab-projects-fall-25/
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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. Her research interests focus on the development and adaptation of quantitative methods and analysis tools (1) to handle missing data, especially for longitudinal studies and […]
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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 […]
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. 1. SIParCS Summer Internships: Summer Internships in Parallel Computational Science (SIParCS) applications are open with a deadline of January 20, 2026. This year undergraduate and graduate students have the opportunity to work with technical projects ranging in topics from machine learning, […]
Continue reading "Open opportunities"Faculty Spotlight: Rob Coyne (Physics)
Exploring the Cosmos Through Computation: How URI’s Research Computing Fosters Discovery 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 […]
Continue reading "Faculty Spotlight: Rob Coyne (Physics)"Michael included on Stanford’s top 2% of scientists list!
https://www.uri.edu/news/2025/10/university-of-rhode-island-faculty-members-named-to-stanford-universitys-top-2-scientists-2024-list/ Congratulations, Michael Puerrer!!
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Discovering AI @ URI Day December 10 | 4:00 – 7:30 p.m. Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering, Rooms 040 & 045 The University of Rhode Island community is invited to join us for a dynamic recognition of the diverse and creative work of our faculty, students, and staff exploring artificial intelligence in research, teaching, and innovation. This AI @ […]
Continue reading "Discovering AI @URI Day"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 […]
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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!
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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!!
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