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”
![Dan Wallach standing outside by trees on Rice University campus](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2022-10/WallachCampus.jpg.jpeg?itok=AbDAswHd)
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
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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
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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
![Phillips & Kyrillidis win 2022 Welch Foundation machine learning-crystallography grant](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2022-09/Tasos%20%26%20George.jpg.jpeg?itok=NItQWRAx)
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
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Rice Engineering to honor alumni with awards celebration Mon, 09/19/2022 - 11:03
Rice CS winners include Bryan Guido Hassin and Wendy-Kay Logan
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Rice CS' Chamzas & Yang named Future Faculty Fellows Fri, 09/16/2022 - 10:37
Program supports Ph.D., postdoctoral researchers applying for tenure-track faculty positions
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REU Data Science Program Hosts Undergrads from Across the US Tue, 09/06/2022 - 16:45
The program provides exposure to cutting-edge data science research through direct faculty mentorship
![Kuldeep Meel (Ph.D. ‘17) wins ACP Early Career Research Award](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2022-09/Kuldeep.jpg.jpeg?itok=nKPnkPdF)
Kuldeep Meel (Ph.D. ‘17) wins ACP Early Career Research Award Tue, 09/06/2022 - 12:45
Meel’s research focuses on automated reasoning at the intersection of formal methods and AI
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Rice’s first Google PhD Fellowship awarded to Jiarong Xing in Computer Science Fri, 09/02/2022 - 11:16
Xing’s work opens new frontiers by enabling runtime programmability of networks and by leveraging programmable networking for security
![Under the direction of Anastasios Kyrilldis (right), OptimaLab members Cameron Wolfe, Chen Dun, and Jasper Liao tackle neural network training algorithms with NSF-Intel Grant.](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2022-09/IntelGrant.jpg.jpeg?itok=DlRfz3ea)
OptimaLab team improves neural network training with NSF-Intel Grant Thu, 09/01/2022 - 22:43
Independent Subnetwork Training will make mobile distributed learning practical