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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Rice CS faculty Unhelkar partners with the TMC for AI collaboration Thu, 07/22/2021 - 11:41
Vaibhav Unhelkar’s TMC research project receives seed grant via Rice’s ENRICH program
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Treangen Lab awarded CDC grant for real-time SARS-CoV-2 variant tracking Tue, 07/20/2021 - 08:46
The project will custom fit widely-adopted Harvest software in order to further COVID-19 research
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Nakhleh and team seek details of cancer’s evolutionary tree Mon, 07/19/2021 - 09:27
Rice computer scientist, engineering dean Luay Nakhleh earns NSF support for single-cell genome study
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Vicente Ordóñez joins Rice CS with CAREER Award Wed, 07/14/2021 - 13:11
NSF aids machine-learning effort to recognize complex visual concepts in images
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RAMBO speeds searches on huge DNA databases Mon, 06/28/2021 - 09:28
Rice CS team's new method cuts indexing times from weeks to hours, search times from hours to minutes
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Kavraki Lab nominated for best paper in cognitive robotics at ICRA 2021 Fri, 06/11/2021 - 17:30
Kavraki, Shrivastava and team presented SPARK and FLAME, experience-based frameworks for sampling-based planning
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NIH grant boosts computational search for cancer drugs Mon, 06/07/2021 - 09:52
Computer scientist Lydia Kavraki and team developing toolkit to model protein-ligand interactions
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Moshe Vardi wins 2021 Knuth Prize Thu, 05/20/2021 - 16:59
The Knuth Prize is one of theoretical computer science’s most prestigious annual awards
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Rice CS faculty Shrivastava awarded tenure Thu, 05/13/2021 - 12:42
Promotion to associate professor with tenure effective July 1
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Students' data science model could help avoid costly natural gas compressor shutdowns Fri, 05/07/2021 - 14:52
D2K Showcase winner uses data from compressors to improve maintenance