Abdeltawab Hendawi
Associate Professor in Computer Science and Data Science,
Co-director of the AI-Lab.Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Minnesota.
Research interest in AI and Big Data.
Applications in various domains such as Smart City, Smart Health, ...
hendawi@uri.edu
- Invited Speaker, at the NSF Workshop on the Compute-Energy Nexus, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Discovery Partners Institute (DPI), Chicago, 2025.
- Panelist Discovering AI @ URI 2025.
- Panelist at the AMPO conference. AI Agents in Action. Reshaping Transportation Planning with Digital Twins, Providence, RI, 2025.
- Best Demo Paper Award, at the 26th IEEE MDM, Irvine, CA 2025.
- Collaboration between my Lab and MindImmune Co., 2025.
- Interview with Chris Stokel-Walker about our study of "The environmental impact of LLMs" published at the Fast Company magazine, 2025.
- Speaker at the AI-Summit, Research Session, URI, 2025.
- Distinguished Program Committee Member, ACM Sigspatial 2024.
- Introducing my CSC 592 Generative AI course, Fall 2024.
- Great achievement. URI ranked No. 1 public university in New England, among best nationally by Wall Street Journal, 2024.
- Second Best Poster Award for my PhD student, Chamudi, at the URI AI Poster Competition 2024.
- Participating in the Rhode Island Transportation Research & Innovation Forum 2024.
- Bronze Medal (the third place) for my PhD student, Chan Young, at the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) for the work presented at the ACM Sigspatial 2023.
- Guest speaker at IEEE CAISAIS conference 2023.
- My PhD student Chan Young recieved the RiseUp scholarship 2023-2024.
- Our work on AI for surface indentification was selected in the top three winners at the LaunchURI program.
- My graduate student Maryam defended her Masters degree.
- Panelistat at the 2023 Emerging Areas of Science IDeA Symposium at Brown University
My Research is Funded by
Discovering AI @ URI 2025
AMPO Conference 2025
Panel, "AI Agents in Action. Reshaping Transportation Planning", AMPO, 2025.
AI-Summit at URI 2025
Presenting At the URI AI-Summit, 2025.
AI-Lab
My research group: Chamudi, Maryam then my guest Professor Janet Pirchard to my right, Robbie to my left, and Kyle and Chan at front, 2023.