Unconventional Computing
Advancing the frontiers of computing through research, education, and service.
Inside Rice CS
![Hanjie Chen](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/link_card_large/public/2024-09/Hanjie%20Chen%2016x9.jpg.webp?itok=D1IMkSwV)
Chen specializes in natural language processing, interpretable machine learning, and trustworthy AI
![BioScience Research Collaborative (Photo by Brandon Martin/Rice University)](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/link_card_large/public/2024-09/AI%20Healthcare.jpg.webp?itok=n8cJ5TGK)
Ken Kennedy Institute hosting AI in Health Conference Sept. 9-12
![Risa Myers](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/link_card_large/public/2024-09/image002%5B21899%5D.jpg.webp?itok=C0Mr3PwG)
Myers’ innovative data science pedagogy brings real-world data applications to the classroom
![Rice University Computer Science Ph.D. student Catherine (Ruozhen) He](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/link_card_large/public/2024-08/Catherine%20He.jpg.webp?itok=8CHAgUS8)
New training method improves visual grounding
![Wil Thomason](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/link_card_large/public/2024-08/Thomason.jpg.webp?itok=JZX_18wR)
Wil Thomason brings strong background in task and motion planning to team of experts at one of the nation’s leading robotics institutions
![Vicky Yao](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/link_card_large/public/2024-08/Vicky%20Yao%2016x9.jpg.webp?itok=QZUU9LuH)
Vicky Yao uses NLP, novel procedural knowledge extraction paradigm to track trends in biomedical literature
![Rice Eclipse Students](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/link_card_large/public/2024-08/Rice%20Eclipse.jpg.webp?itok=cqiph9jT)
Over 100 Rice students worked for a year on the award-winning hybrid rocket “Archimedes”
![Rice faculty and Brazilian students line up along a stairwell](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/link_card_large/public/2024-07/Silva%2016x9.jpg.webp?itok=rcg6bkzd)
The IFCE-Rice-SENAI program aims to establish a long-term US-Brazil research and education collaboration