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.

ITS Research Computing

Research computing infrastructure, support and team.

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Faculty

Faculty researchers that are affiliated with the Center.

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AI Lab, BigData Groups

AI Lab, BigData events, seminars, workshops & more.

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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

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  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-machine and even the New York Times  https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/science/gravitational-waves-ligo-black-holes.html And here as well .. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ringing-black-hole-test-hawking-kerr  Congratulations folks! Wow!!
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  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!
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  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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  Fall ’25 Workshops
  Read the details of our Fall ’25 semester workshops!
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  Unity Cluster Expansion Boosts Performance and Efficiency for URI Researchers
  New Intel and Nvidia nodes expand the Unity Cluster, boosting performance and energy efficiency for URI researchers.