Rice University Computer Science

Mark your calendars for a lecture by University Professor Richard Tapia on September 11 at 4pm. He will share his expertise on the art of giving good talks, with a focus on STEM colloquia. https://events.rice.edu/event/361792-the-art-of-giving-good-talks-with-a-focus-on-stem

Rice CS PhD student Ruozhen (Catherine) He presented her paper, Improved Visual Grounding through Self-Consistent Explanations, at CVPR 2024 this summer in Seattle.

SelfEQ helps computers ‘see’ more accurately and consistently. She is advised by faculty member Vicente Ordóñez-Román.

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Rice postdoctoral research associate joins AI Institute | George R. Brown School of Engineering | Rice University Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the AI Institute brings together global experts in robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, computer science, and engineering to solve fundamental problems in robotics and AI. “The AI Institute...

A research group led by Rice CS' Vicky Yao has been awarded a Data Insights award from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to characterize single-cell RNA-sequencing tools and track trends of their use across biomedical literature.

As single-cell RNA-sequencing technologies rapidly advance, this work will provide much-needed clarity on how people are using computational tools to analyze data. https://bit.ly/3YHIRAl

Brazilian students explore AI and infrastructure resiliency at Rice amid Hurricane Beryl A group of undergraduate students and faculty from Brazil spent a week at Rice exploring the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in sustainability and natural disaster resiliency practices as part of a knowledge and cultural exchange program funded thr...

📆 Tomorrow! Dr. Rayan Chikhi, head of the Sequence Bioinformatics research group at Institut Pasteur, will be on campus to discuss Sequence Bioinformatics on Really Big Data.

Please join us in Duncan Hall Room 1070 at 4pm. For additional information, including the abstract, visit https://bit.ly/4677KHd

Ken Kennedy, the founder of Rice's Department of Computer Science, was honored as part of 's Inaugural 35 Legends.

In their announcement, HPCWire notes that "Kennedy led pioneering work in compiler technology and parallel computing, developing tools and methodologies that made complex computations more accessible and efficient."

"Kennedy founded the HPC in Oil & Gas conference, which is now known as the Energy HPC Conference, hosted annually by his namesake Ken Kennedy Institute at Rice University. This conference has become a vital forum for addressing computational challenges and opportunities within the energy sector."

35 HPC Legends Ken Kennedy - HPCwire Ken Kennedy Founder, Energy HPC Conference Dr. Ken Kennedy, the next HPC luminary on this list, was a leading computer scientist who has left an enduring legacy in HPC. As a […]

Dr. Rayan Chikhi, head of the Sequence Bioinformatics research group at Institut Pasteur, will be on campus, Tuesday, July 30th at 4pm. He'll discuss Sequence Bioinformatics on Really Big Data: Petabase-scale sequence alignment catalyses viral discovery.

Please join us in Duncan Hall Room 1070. For additional information, including the abstract, visit https://bit.ly/4677KHd

👏 Congratulations to Rice CS alumnus and Adobe Principal Scientist Aaron Hertzmann (BA ’96) who has been awarded the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award for pioneering contributions in computer graphics and interactive techniques.

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Triple Owl joins Purdue University's engineering faculty | George R. Brown School of Engineering | Rice University For nearly a decade, Kingston has studied motion planning in robotics in the lab of

Computer scientists awarded $1M NSF grant to reduce waste through AI | George R. Brown School of Engineering Two computer scientists associated with Rice have received a highly competitive, $1-million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Science Foundation to further their work on AutoEdge.ai, an automated machine-learning platform...

‘Symbolic of the hard work and talent': Rice graduate programs rate highly in latest US News rankings A number of Rice graduate programs are rated among the nation's best in the latest edition of U.S. News and World Report's “Best Graduate Schools” rankings.

'Revolutionizing the human spaceflight experience': Rice students design augmented reality system for NASA spacewalks A team from Rice participated in the NASA Spacesuit User Interface Technologies for Students program.

Rice doctoral alum turned Google executive wins technical Emmy Rice doctoral alumnus and current Google executive and technical fellow Parthasarathy Ranganathan has won a technical Emmy for “design and deployment of efficient hardware video accelerators for cloud.”

Rice Engineering Ph.D. students and postdocs: applications for the Future Faculty Fellows program are due two weeks from today on June 7!

If you are applying for tenure-track faculty positions this fall, you don't want to miss the chance to be part of this program. Fellows participate in tailored events and mentoring opportunities to support their faculty position application process, such as mock interviews and workshops on preparing application materials. https://bit.ly/3PTyGmU

Congratulations to Todd Treangen on winning the George R. Brown School of Engineering’s Teaching + Research Excellence Award! Treangen was honored for his COVID-19 research, strengthening Rice Engineering’s ties with the Texas Medical Center, and teaching excellence.

“Dr. Treangen is an exceptional researcher with excellent bibliometrics,” said Chris Jermaine, chair of Rice’s Department of Computer Science. “He works in a very timely and hot research area — especially given the COVID-19 pandemic.” He also refers to Treangen as an "educational leader" in the field of computer science and praises him for being an excellent teacher.

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Today at 2pm!

Join Rice CS next Thursday as we welcome Debaleena Chattopadhyay from the University of Illinois Chicago. She'll discuss "A digital inclusion quandary: Why tech ownership does not imply tech use in older adults and what we can do about it."

Thurs, May 23, 2024, 2pm CT
Duncan Hall 3076

For details: https://bit.ly/4bgvTgl

Congratulations to Luay Nakhleh on winning Rice's George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching! Nakhleh's best-known class was always Comp 182. Alumni have acknowledged the impact he had teaching that course by voting to recognize him as a top Rice instructor.

This is Nakhleh’s second time to win the Award for Superior Teaching, having previously won in 2020. In 2019, he won the university’s most prestigious teaching award, the George R. Brown Prize for Excellence in Teaching.

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Rice CS welcomes Professor Hongfang Liu from UTHealth's McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics for the next talk in our CS Colloquium Series. Her presentation, A Translational Artificial Intelligence Framework in Advancing Healthcare of Tomorrow, will be online, next Thursday, May 23rd at 12pm CDT.

For the abstract and other details: https://bit.ly/3wExNbo

Join Rice CS next Thursday as we welcome Debaleena Chattopadhyay from the University of Illinois Chicago. She'll discuss "A digital inclusion quandary: Why tech ownership does not imply tech use in older adults and what we can do about it."

Thurs, May 23, 2024, 2pm CT
Duncan Hall 3076

For details: https://bit.ly/4bgvTgl

Congratulations to Rice CS assistant professor Konstantinos Mamouras on winning an NSF CAREER Award! With his five-year $547,555 award, Mamouras aims to decentralize the Internet of Things, relieve network congestion and improve overall efficiency. https://bit.ly/3QLM4d0

Rice’s online Master of Computer Science degree was honored by Fortune Magazine with the No. 3 designation in its national rankings.

The publication used several criteria to evaluate candidates: average undergraduate GPA of incoming students, the program’s acceptance rate, one-year retention rates, graduation rates and the number of applicants each program received in the 2023-24 academic year.

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🎉 Congratulations to Rice CS faculty member Rebecca Schreib who received two separate teaching awards at the Center for Teaching Excellence's University Awards Ceremony. They include the Nicholas Salgo Outstanding Teaching Award and Phi Beta Kappa’s Sophia Meyer Farb Prize for Teaching.

Chris Jermaine, Chair of the Department of Computer Science, was not surprised by Schreib’s double honor. "The most singular characteristic of Rebecca's teaching is her dedication,” he said. “I'm not sure anyone on campus puts in more effort, and her students revere her for it."

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REMINDER! Seattle-area alumni are invited to our next Rice CS alumni event THIS THURSDAY in Bellevue!

Join your fellow CS Owls for a reception and mini tech talks covering our latest research in robotics and quantum computing. Speakers will include CS faculty members Tirthak Patel and Kaiyu Hang, as well as our department chair Christopher Jermaine.

RSVP: RiceCSBellevue.eventbrite.com

Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University researchers have introduced a new method, Taxa4Meta, to identify gut bacteria associated with diarrheal disease. Their new findings have been published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation. This tool represents a new “best practices” approach for more accurate diagnoses.

Researchers included Qinglong Wu, Shyam Badu, S*k Yu So, and Dr. Tor Savidge along with Professor Todd Treangen from Rice’s Department of Computer Science.

Read More: https://bit.ly/3vVNrPi

Rice CS is featured prominently in the new Research Issue of Rice Magazine, including Professor Lydia Kavraki, shown below. magazine.rice.edu

The newest edition of Rice Magazine has officially launched, featuring Rice’s growing research ecosystem.

Our new institutes, centers and accelerators will unite brilliant minds to tackle the world’s most significant challenges, with dynamic goals that reflect the exciting future we envision and are building together as a university. It is a growing part of Rice’s ethos to improve the lives of all those outside the university’s hedges – whether they are just down the street or across the world.

Learn more at magazine.rice.edu

For , we're looking back to our Quantum Information Processing Systems Workshop earlier this school year.

According to Anastasios Kyrillidis, Rice University Computer Science professor, tackling quantum-related questions “is essential for both deepening our understanding of the fundamental nature of the world around us and unlocking technological advancements that have the potential to reshape various aspects of our lives.” https://bit.ly/3TZ22S8

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