Joe Walowski: Going against the Grain
Rice CS alumnus Joe Walowski is now VP for Alexa at Amazon.
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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
Stephanie Weirich: a Passion for Programming Languages
Rice alumna Stephanie Weirich is now a CS professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
Student Mentors Needed at Yates High School Robotics Club
Two Sigma and Rice University are looking for students who want to mentor the Yates High School Robotics Club
Kavraki Group wins best paper award at ICRA 2019
The Kavraki group won a best paper award at 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in the Cognitive Robotics category.
Bob Swanson: CS and the Traveling Salesman
“There is a role in the world for CS people who want to be broad rather than deep. You can see connections that a specialist won’t see," said Bob Swanson (B.A. '84). He's made a career out of pointing out those connections.
Bishr Tabbaa: Software Engineering and Biotechnology as strands of DNA Double Helix
“Don’t take shortcuts you’ll pay for tomorrow; technology debt is just like financial debt – it compounds on you," said Gene by Gene software engineering manager Bishr Tabbaa (B.A. '99).
Lu contributes to algorithm, identifies threats to humans, crops
Jacob Lu's work in the Treangen Lab
Fuching “Jack” Chi: Staging a Career Comeback
Yelp software engineer and RIce CS alumnus Jack Chi offers advice on staging a career comeback: “Look for baby step wins. Build upon those smaller successes and iterate fast on failures, but pick an area to focus on.”
Sharon Goza: Computer Graphics and Gamification
Sharon Goza is a Rice MCS alumna and now the manager of NASA's Integrated Graphics, Operations, and Analysis Lab.
K Young on Startups and Changing Directions
Rice CS alumnus K Young is now the VP for Growth Engineering at Datadog.