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Computer Science News

Rice Computer Scientist tackles quantum computing depth and algorithms

Lauren Hu ('25) worked to modernize the IRS’s intranet platform SERP with human-centric design

CS and CEE professors receive grant for infrastructure research with colleagues in Brazil

Conversational AI text concerns addressed by professors in Computer Science and Communication

Three new faculty members join Rice Computer Science

Three new faculty members join Rice Computer Science Monday, Aug. 22, 2022

New hires include experts in quantum computing, efficient sublinear algorithms, machine learning, and high-performance computing


Rice, NASA extend Space Act Agreement

Rice, NASA extend Space Act Agreement Friday, Aug. 19, 2022

Previous collaborations, including Lydia Kavraki's Robonaut program, were key to negotiating the extension.


Four Rice CS grad students named National GEM Consortium fellows 

Four Rice CS grad students named National GEM Consortium fellows  Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022

CS Fellows are sponsored by Adobe, Intel, IBM and Johns Hopkins


Rice CS Researchers Accelerate Genome Variant Analysis

Rice CS team accelerates genome variant analysis, processing SARS-COV-2 data in minutes Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022

PhD student Tiancheng Xu presents new hardware accelerator with advisors Alan Cox and Scott Rixner at FCCM22


Rice research technician Russell Carlson-Stadler analyzes wastewater samples for signs of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

CDC names Houston Health Dept, Rice a wastewater epidemiology Center of Excellence Monday, Aug. 8, 2022

Rice CS' Todd Treangen & CEE's Lauren Stadler developed and maintain a weekly viral genome analysis to screen for SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern


Rice Faculty Member Xia "Ben" Hu standing outside against a building on campus

Xia “Ben” Hu and Rice CS’ DATA Lab win Outstanding Paper at ICML 2022 Monday, Aug. 8, 2022

G-Mixup graph augmentation substantially improves graph neural networks


Tianyang Pan and Rahul Shome stand under a tree on campus at Rice University

Toward robots working in the real world: Failure makes planning better Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022

Kavraki Lab's Tianyang Pan and Rahul Shome present on robotics planning tasks and motions at ICRA


Next-generation networks with fast changes and increased security

Next-generation networks with fast changes and increased security Thursday, Jul. 28, 2022

NSF grants Rice CS and partners $3M to develop runtime programmable networks


Rice University Professor Moshe Vardi

VardiFest22 honors Moshe Vardi’s career and accomplishments Tuesday, Jul. 26, 2022

Colleagues, researchers & former students will present during the 2-day workshop held in collaboration with the Federated Logic Conference


Luay Nakhleh, Huw Ogilvie, Meng Li

NSF grant links Computer Science, Statistics, and Phylogenetics at Rice University Thursday, Jul. 21, 2022

The research will develop novel techniques to scale MCMC to much larger data sets