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 Ph.D. student Zhiwei Zhang standing outside](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2023-08/Zhiwei.jpg.jpeg?itok=L0GcT_Gv)
New Take On Graph-Theory Problem Could Mean More Efficient Quantum Computers Mon, 08/07/2023 - 14:40
Rice PhD Student Awarded Quantum-Graph Best-Paper Award 2023 For ‘Beautiful’ Approach To Perfect Matching’
![Rice, TAMU, and PVAMU collaborate with Google and NSF](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2023-08/2023REUgroup-DSC07414-1600x900.jpg.jpeg?itok=hFClbhe0)
Rice, TAMU, and PVAMU collaborate with Google and the NSF Wed, 08/02/2023 - 18:34
Rice CS & DS summer programs introduce undergraduates from across the U.S. to research opportunities
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Kavraki Lab presents four papers at ICRA 2023 in London Thu, 07/27/2023 - 10:07
Rice computer scientists showcase improvements for automation and robots
![Silva, Hu and Jermaine focus ML, AI, and graphs on DOT infrastructure](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2023-07/Jermaine%20Silva%20Hu.png.jpeg?itok=5GHzjZcZ)
Rice CS joins UH in research to improve transportation cyber security Mon, 07/24/2023 - 19:33
Silva, Hu and Jermaine focus ML, AI, and graphs on DOT infrastructure
![Yuxin Tang at ICML](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2023-07/Yuxin%20Tang.jpg.jpeg?itok=--nKSFSR)
Tang, Jermaine and team pioneer breakthrough solution to big data challenges Mon, 07/24/2023 - 12:53
ICML 2023 paper reveals groundbreaking techniques in differentiating relational algebra for large-scale ML
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Todd Treangen promoted to associate professor with tenure Mon, 07/10/2023 - 21:48
His research lies at the intersection of computer science, public health, and genomics
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Ferreira & Schreib named finalists for Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award Tue, 06/27/2023 - 19:18
The honor highlights top-rated early-career faculty across the university
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Rice and Houston Health Department publish wastewater SARS-CoV-2 research in Nature Communications Mon, 06/26/2023 - 15:18
Rice CS, STAT, and CEVE researchers develop tool for early identification of SARS-COV-2 mutations in wastewater
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Liu, Chen & team advance cloud security in USENIX Security paper Thu, 06/22/2023 - 22:30
Rice CS Ph.D. student uses novel approach to deploy cloud devices as security enforcers
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Rice CS team helps robots rearrange objects without gripping them Thu, 06/22/2023 - 17:30
The research is one of five papers presented at ICRA 2023