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”
![Vardi honored for 'outstanding contributions to logic and computation'](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2020-07/article_moshe_04_0_0.jpg.jpeg?itok=TX3PsYpg)
Vardi honored for 'outstanding contributions to logic and computation' Wed, 04/11/2018 - 20:33
Vardi honored for 'outstanding contributions to logic and computation'
![Devika Subramanian, professor of computer science, of electrical and computer engineering and co-chair of the Data Science Curriculum Initiative Committee at Rice University.](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2020-07/devika.jpg.jpeg?itok=-5MUML8I)
Data Science will have a Large Footprint at Rice Wed, 03/28/2018 - 20:46
The Data Science Curriculum Initiative Committee was organized to make curricular training in data science available to Rice undergraduates.
![Rice graduate student wins Gates Cambridge Scholarship](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2020-07/gutstein1.jpg.jpeg?itok=DkezIkn7)
Rice graduate student wins Gates Cambridge Scholarship Sun, 02/18/2018 - 20:47
Brett Gutstein is one of 35 American students awarded a 2018 Gates Cambridge Scholarship for graduate studies at the University of Cambridge in England.
![Anshumali Shrivastava](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2020-07/anshu_bluecoat.jpg.jpeg?itok=ccqW_GDs)
Shrivastava awarded $450K YIP grant Fri, 01/19/2018 - 20:49
Anshumali Shrivastava, assistant professor of computer science (CS) at Rice University, has been awarded a $450,000, three-year grant from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research’s Young Investigator Research Program (YIP).
![CS graduate students in top row Beidi Chen (far left), Keren Zhou (center), and Jeffrey Dudek (far right) won prestigious K2I Fellowships.](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2020-07/k2fellowships2017_01-X2.jpg.jpeg?itok=7dWbJqrg)
Ken Kennedy Institute awards $67,500 to 9 graduate students Thu, 01/04/2018 - 20:51
The Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology has awarded $67,500 to nine Rice University graduate students as part of its annual graduate fellowship program.
![Eduard Danalache, CS junior, is active in Rice's eSports Club.](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2020-07/EdiDanalache-745.jpg.jpeg?itok=M-CIPvdc)
Upping the competition Thu, 11/30/2017 - 21:10
CS Junior Eduard "Edi" Danalache has spent three years making Rice's competitive online gaming community more vibrant, gathering sponsorship from companies, and organizing fun events for the club members.
![Lydia Kavraki, Biomedical informatics researcher](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2020-07/LydiaKavraki-Biomedical.jpg.jpeg?itok=C9GNztGt)
Biomedical informatics training grant wins 6th competitive renewal Thu, 11/30/2017 - 20:53
The National Library of Medicine Training Program in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science was awarded a $3.1 million renewal following a competitive review process by the NLM.
![Leo Elworth, (left) Travis Benedict, Chabrielle Allen, and Peter Dulworth work on visualizing genome data](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2020-07/group.jpg.jpeg?itok=A-RD4OPI)
CS Students Conduct Interdisciplinary Research for Visualizing Evolution in Genome Data Wed, 11/15/2017 - 21:12
Leo Elworth, Travis Benedict, Chabrielle Allen, and Peter Dulworth work on visualizing genome data
![Computer Science students compete in ACM programming competition.](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2020-07/ACM2017team.jpg.jpeg?itok=fw07Yjjk)
Five Rice teams place in top 45 in ACM contest Fri, 11/10/2017 - 21:17
Five teams of Rice Computer Science students competed in the annual ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) International Collegiate Programming Contest.
![Risa Myers](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2020-07/article_risa_02.jpg.jpeg?itok=UZKx-n3Y)
Risa Myers joins CS faculty: 'It's like coming home' Mon, 11/06/2017 - 09:10
Risa B. Myers joins the CS faculty as a full-time lecturer.