Treangen was honored for strengthening Rice Engineering’s ties with the TMC, for his COVID-19 research, and teaching excellence.
The Center for Teaching Excellence recognizes top Rice instructors as determined by alumni votes
Parthasarathy Ranganathan recognized for ‘design and deployment of efficient hardware video accelerators for cloud’
Six CS faculty members have received awards via the AI, Data, and Computing Seed Funding Initiative
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Wallach among recipients of Rice's first COVID-19 research grants Mon, 04/20/2020 - 22:43
Diagnostics, detection, better masks and voter safety among initial targets.
![Todd Treangen](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2020-07/200420_covirt.jpg.jpeg?itok=AazmG0ly)
Treangen co-organizes international symposium on COVID-19 Mon, 04/20/2020 - 11:15
On April 17, the COV-IRT virtual event maxed out registration of 1,000.
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Griffin, Nakhleh receive George R. Brown Awards for Superior Teaching Wed, 04/15/2020 - 11:22
Administered by the Center for Teaching Excellence, the awards recognize top Rice instructors as determined by the votes of alumni.
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Improving immunotherapy outcomes with personalized treatments Fri, 04/03/2020 - 11:25
Didier Devaurs, a former postdoctoral researcher in computer science reports promising computational work in cancer research.
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Larry Ciscon is a serial entrepreneur in Houston Tue, 03/31/2020 - 21:05
Larry Ciscon's CS Startups
![Wenxing Qiu](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2020-07/200323_Wenxing.jpg.jpeg?itok=BPk45Mlx)
How a professional master's degree gave this alumna career options Mon, 03/23/2020 - 11:28
After quarantine, Wenxing Qiu '19 is back to coding at Schlumberger.
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How one professor moved 219 students from the classroom to online Thu, 03/19/2020 - 11:30
ELEC 220 is a required course for all ECE and computer science majors at Rice University.
![Yang Wu](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2020-08/200309_yang_wu.jpg.jpeg?itok=-_qZWyWi)
How Rice gave Yang Wu the confidence to try new things Mon, 03/09/2020 - 21:21
Yang Wu's advice on being successful in CS
![Rice University's Anshumali Shrivastava led a team that demonstrated how to implement deep learning technology without specialized acceleration hardware like graphics processing units.](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2020-07/200302_slide_01.jpg.jpeg?itok=dtSA6bV0)
Deep learning rethink overcomes major obstacle in AI industry Mon, 03/02/2020 - 11:31
SLIDE is first algorithm for training deep neural nets faster on CPUs than GPUs.
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Kavraki receives Robotics and Automation Society Pioneer Award Thu, 02/27/2020 - 11:33
Rice computer science professor recognized for her fundamental contributions to robot design.