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The Department of Computer Science and Statistics advances computing, data, and statistics through education and research. Our students learn by doing and graduate ready to shape the future of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and data science.
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A modernized curriculum with B.S. specializations in Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, and General Computer Science, plus a flexible B.A., experiential learning, and research opportunities.
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M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Statistics, a graduate certificate in Cyber Security, and a PSM degree in Cyber Security, with assistantships for selected full-time students.
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Spanning computer science and statistics, our faculty and students collaborate across URI and with industry and government partners.
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Meet the faculty, staff, and researchers behind our programs: 25 tenure-track and teaching faculty working at the edge of the field.
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Computer Science Launches Redesigned B.S. with AI and Cybersecurity Specializations (7/3/2026) - Starting Fall 2026, every computer science B.S. student will choose a specialization in Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, or General Computer Science. The modernized curriculum puts machine learning and data science in every student’s core, and a streamlined B.A. launches alongside it.
Alina Barnett Wins Foundation Grant to Improve AI Breast Cancer Diagnosis (5/20/2026) - Assistant Professor of Computer Science Alina Barnett has received a $25,000 research grant to improve how artificial intelligence models reason through breast cancer diagnoses, the Rhode Island Foundation announced Monday. Barnett is one of 14 URI researchers sharing in total of $650,000 in medical research grants awarded to 26 projects statewide. Barnett’s work targets the […]
Noah Daniels and Shaun Wallace Receive NSF FAIROS Grant with Tufts Collaborators (5/13/2026) - Professors Noah Daniels and Shaun Wallace have been awarded a $600,000 National Science Foundation FAIROS (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable, and Open Science) grant, shared between URI and Tufts University. The project addresses a gap in scientific research: while researchers across many domains generate vast amounts of data, existing metadata schemas are largely inaccessible to non-programmers. […]
[Talk] Ed Lamagna: From Punched Cards to Quantum Cryptography: A Personal Retrospective on 50 Years of Computer Science (4/22/2026) - When: Friday, April 24, 3:30 PMWhere: Beaupre 105 Abstract:Ed Lamagna, Professor of Computer Science at URI, has served on the URI faculty for 50 years, arriving in the Fall of 1976. His professional interests lie at the intersection of computer science and mathematics. In particular, Ed contributes to the fields of computer algebra and the […]
[Talk] Suzanne Mello-Stark: Election Security After 2020: Systems Held, Trust Didn’t (4/22/2026) - When: Friday, April 24, 3:30 PMWhere: Beaupre 105 Abstract:This talk argues that the biggest threat to elections today is not hacking, but doubt. Since 2020, election systems have become more secure. Paper ballots, risk-limiting audits, and improved coordination have made large-scale tampering with votes extremely difficult. But while the systems held, confidence in them did […]
[Talk] Hoon Cho: Enabling Collaborative Genomic Studies with Privacy (4/15/2026) - When: Friday, April 17, 3:00 PMWhere: Tyler 055 AbstractThe sensitive nature of genomic data poses major challenges for data sharing and collaboration in biomedicine. Traditional safeguards often lead to fragmentation across data silos, hindering large-scale analysis. I will describe our recent work on secure federated (SF) algorithms, which combine cryptography and distributed computation to enable […]
Shaun Wallace Named 2026 URI SSIREP Public Policy Fellow (4/3/2026) - Assistant Professor Shaun Wallace has been selected as a 2026 Public Policy Fellow through URI’s Social Science Institute for Research, Education, and Policy (SSIREP). Wallace’s fellowship project, “Exploring Cyber Dating Aggression in Real-Time Among Young Adults,” will prototype a web-based user-first privacy-preserving extraction pipeline for identifying cyber dating aggression (CDA) from their naturally occurring digital […]