Welcome to the Center for Computational Research (CCR) at the University of Rhode Island — a collaboratively funded effort by central IT Services (ITS), the Vice President for Research (VPR) and faculty contributions through research grants.
The Center’s mission is to support, promote and grow high-level interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary computational research — high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI), data science (Data) and quantum computing (Quantum) — across URI campuses and in the region. The computational work of over 150 faculty researchers is supported by this Center.
The Center has an internal advisory group of key URI faculty members: Drs. Steve D’Hondt (Oceanography); Ying Zhang (Life Sciences), Thomas Stubblefield (Associate Dean, College of A&S) and Drew Zhang (Alfred J. Verrecchia Endowed Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Business Analytics). The Center also collaborates closely with the Massachusetts High-Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC).
Email us at itrcs-group@uri.edu with questions, comments, suggestions — anything!
News
- AI Lab’s Hendawi Wins Best Demo Paper Award
We are happy to share that the AI Lab’s Dr. Abdeltawab Hendawi has won the best demo paper award for his paper titled, “Harnessing Crowdsourced Mobile Data And LLM for Dynamic and Accessible Pedestrian Routing,” at the 26th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM). The IEEE MDM is a prestigious forum for the exchange […] - CCR AI Lab Summer Workshops
Below are the details of our CCR / AI Lab summer workshops. Again, these are open to faculty, staff and students and are totally free. Please feel free forward this announcement to anyone who may benefit. As usual, you can find these on the URI events calendar (and subscribe): https://events.uri.edu/group/ai Or here is a webpage link: […] - CCR affiliate publishes Nature paper
Dr. Liqun Zhang, a URI computational scientist in Chemical Engineering and CCR affiliate, just published a Nature paper titled “Interaction and dynamics of chemokine receptor CXCR4 binding with CXCL12 and hBD-3“. The paper is open access and is available here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42004-024-01280-6 Dr. Zhang is a very heavy user of HPC at URI. She uses Unity […] - URI is part of the Open Storage Network for research data storage and sharing
URI has been part of the National Science Foundation’s Open Storage Network (OSN) for 3 years. - CCR supports research in Environmental Economics
Prof. Corey Lang and postdoctoral researcher Jarron VanCeylon, supported by the CCR, recently published a paper in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management exploring how homebuyers’ preferences for environmental amenities align with their political leanings.