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”
![Rice CS alumnus K Young is the VP for Growth Engineering at Datadog.](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2020-08/KYoung-1920x1080.jpg.jpeg?itok=uWtkBAyQ)
K Young on Startups and Changing Directions Mon, 09/09/2019 - 21:08
Rice CS alumnus K Young is now the VP for Growth Engineering at Datadog.
![Rice CS alumnus William "Bill" LeFebvre is the chief architect at If/Then.](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2020-08/WilliamLeFebvre-844x473px.jpeg?itok=GZBlu2PC)
Bill LeFebvre: Unix, Open Source, and the World Wide Web Thu, 09/05/2019 - 21:24
Rice CS alumnus William "Bill" LeFebvre is the chief architect at If/Then.
![Kavraki to lead Ken Kennedy Institute](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2020-07/Kavraki_0.jpg.jpeg?itok=aGGvqxO_)
Kavraki to lead Ken Kennedy Institute Thu, 09/05/2019 - 13:50
Lydia Kavraki has been named director of Rice’s Ken Kennedy Institute.
![Jermaine Awarded NSF Grant for machine learning](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2020-07/Jermaine1.jpg.jpeg?itok=67f3cDS4)
Jermaine Awarded NSF Grant for machine learning Thu, 09/05/2019 - 13:48
Jermaine Awarded NSF Grant for machine learning
![Group receives award at VLDB Conference](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2020-07/GroupAward.jpg.jpeg?itok=9Xlfwl-2)
Group receives award at VLDB Conference Thu, 09/05/2019 - 13:47
Jermaine and his group shared best paper runner up award at this year's VLDB Conference.
![Jiarong Xing](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2020-08/JiarongXingWeb.jpg.jpeg?itok=qvraO9Qr)
Paper presented at USENIX Workshop Wed, 09/04/2019 - 21:27
A paper authored by Ph.D. student Jiarong Xing, was accepted at USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud ’19).
![Xian Fan](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2020-08/XianFan.jpg.jpeg?itok=2ktI4lIM)
Rising Stars selects Fan Tue, 08/27/2019 - 21:34
Fan was selected to be part of Rising Stars, an academic workshop for women.
![CPRIT grants bring computer scientist, bioengineer to Rice](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2020-07/190826_yao_lu-1.jpg.jpeg?itok=fJOwPZNo)
CPRIT grants bring computer scientist, bioengineer to Rice Tue, 08/27/2019 - 13:51
Vicky Yao and Jiaozhi Lu set to join School of Engineering faculty.
![Rice CS alumnus Jeff Phillips is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Utah.](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2020-08/JeffPhillips-1920x1080.jpg.jpeg?itok=yWdyCjtw)
Jeff Phillips: Excited by Research and Academic Freedom Fri, 08/23/2019 - 21:38
Rice CS alumnus Jeff Phillips is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Utah.
![Indeed CEO Chris Hyams is a Rice University alumnus (M.C.S. '96).](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2020-08/ChrisHyams-1920x1080.jpg.jpeg?itok=SCbFimS5)
Chris Hyams: Solving Human Problems with Technology Tue, 08/20/2019 - 21:54
Indeed CEO Chris Hyams is a Rice University alumnus (M.C.S. '96).