CS Professor Anastasios Kyrillidis and PhD student Fangshuo (Jasper) Liao explore how momentum hastens solutions for deep neural networks
Awards include the annual Andrew Ladd Memorial fellowship
New CS alumni share their favorite parts of being a student at Rice
Telemundo's documentary on artificial intelligence won a Lone Star Emmy Award
Allison Heath: CS and Genomics Sun, 10/13/2019 - 11:03
Allison Heath's path to genomics research
Joe Walowski: Going against the Grain Mon, 10/07/2019 - 11:26
Rice CS alumnus Joe Walowski is now VP for Alexa at Amazon.
Stephanie Weirich: a Passion for Programming Languages Wed, 10/02/2019 - 11:37
Rice alumna Stephanie Weirich is now a CS professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
Student Mentors Needed at Yates High School Robotics Club Fri, 09/27/2019 - 11:48
Two Sigma and Rice University are looking for students who want to mentor the Yates High School Robotics Club
Kavraki Group wins best paper award at ICRA 2019 Thu, 09/26/2019 - 13:44
The Kavraki group won a best paper award at 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in the Cognitive Robotics category.
Bob Swanson: CS and the Traveling Salesman Thu, 09/26/2019 - 12:20
“There is a role in the world for CS people who want to be broad rather than deep. You can see connections that a specialist won’t see," said Bob Swanson (B.A. '84). He's made a career out of pointing out those connections.
Bishr Tabbaa: Software Engineering and Biotechnology as strands of DNA Double Helix Tue, 09/24/2019 - 10:12
“Don’t take shortcuts you’ll pay for tomorrow; technology debt is just like financial debt – it compounds on you," said Gene by Gene software engineering manager Bishr Tabbaa (B.A. '99).
Lu contributes to algorithm, identifies threats to humans, crops Thu, 09/19/2019 - 12:23
Jacob Lu's work in the Treangen Lab
Fuching “Jack” Chi: Staging a Career Comeback Mon, 09/16/2019 - 13:14
Yelp software engineer and RIce CS alumnus Jack Chi offers advice on staging a career comeback: “Look for baby step wins. Build upon those smaller successes and iterate fast on failures, but pick an area to focus on.”
Sharon Goza: Computer Graphics and Gamification Fri, 09/13/2019 - 20:55
Sharon Goza is a Rice MCS alumna and now the manager of NASA's Integrated Graphics, Operations, and Analysis Lab.