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”
![Tilsa Oré Mónago and Vicente Ordóñez Román stand outside on the Rice University campus](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2023-01/Tilsa-Vicente-DSC06276-1600x900.jpg.jpeg?itok=hmG3pzPs)
Owls fly to Ecuador and Peru, lead Google exploreCSR workshop in Spanish Mon, 01/30/2023 - 13:13
Rice CS professors collaborate with local universities to expand research opportunities
![Rice CS Fellowship Honorees](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2023-01/k2i%20fellows%202023.jpg.jpeg?itok=u6H59zWX)
Ken Kennedy Institute Awards Computational Science & Engineering Fellowships Sun, 01/29/2023 - 15:16
Program aims to attract graduate students to Rice in the fields of high performance computing, computational science & engineering, & data science.
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Juhi Bhatnagar leverages HCI and MCS background at Microsoft Wed, 01/25/2023 - 17:15
Rice MCS alumna talks human-computer interaction and other Rice MCS opportunities
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Six Rice CS PhD students win Ken Kennedy Institute Graduate Fellowship Program Awards Thu, 01/19/2023 - 10:59
Rice CS' fellowship recipients are supported by bp, SLB, Shell, Andrew Ladd Memorial Excellence in Computer Science, and the Ken Kennedy-Cray Inc. endowment
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Rice CS alumni launch supply chain startup through Y Combinator S22 Wed, 01/18/2023 - 16:38
Abridge co-founders base their South Asia supply logistics venture in Mumbai
![Beidi Chen](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2023-01/Beidi_Chen_1600x900-profilephoto.jpg.jpeg?itok=TIrdeXuL)
Rice CS alumna wraps up Stanford postdoc, joins CMU faculty Mon, 01/09/2023 - 16:51
Beidi Chen (PhD '20) talks about grad school seminars and research freedom
![John Greiner PhD, ICPC Club Rice University](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2023-01/Greiner%20ICPC.jpg.jpeg?itok=vMRZpHis)
ICPC Club helps students reach full potential in competitive programming Wed, 01/04/2023 - 10:46
Greiner and team offer weekly computer programming contests and mentorship in challenging advanced topics overlapping with Rice CS curriculum
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Kavraki Lab helps robots learn to solve tasks more quickly, inspired by human memory recall Fri, 12/30/2022 - 12:33
Chamzas, Kavraki and team help robots retrieve relevant experiences to accomplish new tasks and solve new problems
![Todd Treangen standing outside on the Rice University campus](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2022-12/ToddTreangen-1600x900-2.jpg.jpeg?itok=lu9bmmOY)
Squeegee helps identify contaminants in microbiome samples Tue, 12/13/2022 - 21:12
Treangen Lab and BCM researchers develop new tool for microbiome analysis
![Researchers Anderson and Liu stand outside on the Rice University campus](/sites/g/files/bxs4941/files/styles/thu/public/2022-12/Anderson%20_%20Liu.jpg.jpeg?itok=0LUNEiEs)
Rice CS Researchers Build Performance Analysis Tools for Exascale Supercomputers Mon, 12/12/2022 - 20:24
Professor Mellor-Crummey and PhD students Anderson and Liu begin parallel analysis as supercomputer is being built