News & Events

A bright future Thu, 11/17/2022 - 21:13

A record eight engineering faculty, including three CS, receive NSF CAREER Awards

Rice researchers identify novel method for predicting how well peptides bind to molecules critical for immunotherapy treatment Mon, 11/14/2022 - 16:05

Kavraki Lab helps scientists improve personalized immunology treatment plans for cancer, other diseases

OptimaLab optimizes problem-solving algorithms Wed, 11/09/2022 - 12:34

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 Tue, 11/08/2022 - 13:36

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 Mon, 11/07/2022 - 19:36

Rodrigo Ferreira teaches students how to examine fairness issues and plot solutions

Kavraki and O’Malley named to list of world’s top women scientists in robotics, engineering and science Tue, 10/25/2022 - 20:16

The announcement was made at the iROS Kyoto 2022 Conference in Japan

Confirming election results possible with risk-limiting audits Mon, 10/24/2022 - 15:58

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 Fri, 10/14/2022 - 19:47

Projects included a game to stop voter suppression, a tool to identify keystrokes to combat phishing and more

Rice Computer Scientist leads biosecurity training at BioMADE Tue, 10/11/2022 - 10:42

Todd Treangen's training program raises awareness of bioerror or bioterror outcomes on synthetic DNA projects

Rice Biochemist, Computer Scientist tackle protein phase problem with Machine Learning Tue, 09/27/2022 - 13:57

Phillips and Kyrillidis receive 2022 Welch Foundation Grant to solve protein structures