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.”
‘Human Flourishing in the Age of AI’ conference tackles how AI is quietly reshaping what it means to live a fully human life.
New imaging approach could enable faster, more accurate 3D sensing for robotics, manufacturing and autonomous systems.
As part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Bio-attribution Challenge, a team of Rice University computer scientists is building a computational tool to screen environmental DNA samples for pathogens.
What does it mean for human beings to flourish in a world shaped by AI?
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
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