IEEE honors Lydia Kavraki with Frances E. Allen Medal
Kavraki was recognized “for foundational probabilistic algorithms and randomized search methods that have broad impact in robotic motion planning and computational biology.”
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Rice CS faculty member promoted to associate teaching professor
Rice engineer recognized for contributions to robotics, computational biomedicine, AI
Novel communication solution drastically speeds up LLM training
The summits brought together global experts to set the vision for the future of quantum computing and artificial intelligence (AI).
T. S. Eugene Ng Named IEEE Fellow
Ng has been recognized for contributions to circuit-switched innovations in datacenter network and scalable methods for internet delay estimation
A record eight engineering faculty, including three CS, receive NSF CAREER Awards
Kavraki Lab helps scientists improve personalized immunology treatment plans for cancer, other diseases
OptimaLab optimizes problem-solving algorithms
The team, led by Anastasios Kyrillidis, specializes in increasing the efficiency of very complicated calculations
Rice CS PhD Student Mohammadamin Edrisi Wins Honorable Mention at ISMB
Edrisi, Nakhleh and team’s research on new scalable methods for single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) also appears in the journal Bioinformatics
Ethics Curriculum Evolves in Rice Computer Science Department
Rodrigo Ferreira teaches students how to examine fairness issues and plot solutions
The announcement was made at the iROS Kyoto 2022 Conference in Japan
Confirming election results possible with risk-limiting audits
Professor Dan Wallach and Rice CS alum Matthew Bernhard ('15) offer strategies to validate elections that use paper ballots
HackRice 12 participants complete programming projects in just 72 hours
Projects included a game to stop voter suppression, a tool to identify keystrokes to combat phishing and more