New training method improves visual grounding
Wil Thomason brings strong background in task and motion planning to team of experts at one of the nation’s leading robotics institutions
Vicky Yao uses NLP, novel procedural knowledge extraction paradigm to track trends in biomedical literature
Over 100 Rice students worked for a year on the award-winning hybrid rocket “Archimedes”
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Todd Treangen wins SoE Teaching + Research Excellence Award Thu, 05/23/2024 - 16:29
Treangen was honored for strengthening Rice Engineering’s ties with the TMC, for his COVID-19 research, and teaching excellence.
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Nakhleh recognized with award for superior teaching Tue, 05/21/2024 - 12:10
The Center for Teaching Excellence recognizes top Rice instructors as determined by alumni votes
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Rice CS PhD alum turned Google executive wins technical Emmy Wed, 05/15/2024 - 13:56
Parthasarathy Ranganathan recognized for ‘design and deployment of efficient hardware video accelerators for cloud’
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K2I funds Rice CS AI, Data and Computing research Fri, 05/10/2024 - 13:19
Six CS faculty members have received awards via the AI, Data, and Computing Seed Funding Initiative
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Rice CS & ECE researchers develop innovative microbiome analysis software tools Tue, 05/07/2024 - 13:21
Methods promise an enhanced understanding of microbial communities
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Emphasizing student engagement, Schreib honored with two teaching excellence awards Thu, 04/25/2024 - 17:09
CS Assistant Teaching Professor recognized by her students as an outstanding teacher
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BCM and Rice publish new computational tool for diarrheal disease classification in top clinical journal Tue, 04/16/2024 - 14:25
Taxa4Meta represents a new “best practices” approach for more accurate diagnoses
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CS Professor Luay Nakhleh inducted into the AIMBE College of Fellows Mon, 03/25/2024 - 16:16
Dean of engineering recognized for his distinguished and continuing achievements in computational biology
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K2I's March Member of the Month: Rodrigo Ferreira Tue, 03/19/2024 - 15:49
Assistant Teaching Professor of Computer Science
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U.S.-Latin America ‘policy lab’ could leverage AI as arena for international collaboration Thu, 03/14/2024 - 16:23
CS Faculty member Rodrigo Ferreira and other Rice experts testify at National AI Advisory Committee hearing