Robotics researchers develop open-source motion planning benchmarking tool
Kavraki Lab helps standardize robot motion planning algorithm evaluations
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How a Marine Corps Veteran Leveraged the Flexible Online Master of Data Science Program to Launch a Career in Human Spaceflight Research. (Spoiler: Is an Online Degree This Rigorous Worth the Investment?)
Algorithm’s potential to advance quantum computing places team among select group vying for $5M prize
Honor recognizes influential work in data center networking and Internet performance measurement
Rice experts available to discuss emerging computational technologies reshaping disease detection, public health preparedness and next-generation therapeutics
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.”
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