Research Groups
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Group
Led by professors Lydia Kavraki, James McLurkin, Devika Subramanian, and Moshe Vardi, the Rice Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Group conducts a wide array of research in the areas of artificial intelligence, automated reasoning, bioinformatics, and robotics. The group works on motion planning with emphasis on high-dimensional systems, assembly planning, reasoning with sensing and control uncertainty, flexible object manipulation, physical modeling, probabilistic methods in robotics, the geometry of motion, and the use of new enabling technologies, such as MicroElectroMechanical Systems. This group also is interested in problems arising in the intersection of robotics and sensor nets.
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Prof. Lydia Kavraki is the Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Bioengineering. She investigates mathematical algorithms and IT architectures that can be used to solve complex geometric problems.
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Prof. James McLurkin is an assistant professor of Computer Science. His research is areas include distributed algorithms for multi-robot systems with a focus on both algorithm and systems design.
Prof. Devika Subramanian is a professor of Computer Science and of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Her research in artificial intelligence is aimed at understanding principles for designing and analyzing bounded, task-directed systems embedded in the world.
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Prof. Moshe Vardi is the Karen Ostrum George Professor in Computational Engineering, Professor of Computer Science, and Director of the Computer and Information Technology Institute. His research specialties are verification and logic.
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