CAREER

Nathan Dautenhahn wins CAREER Award

Rice University computer scientist Nathan Dautenhahn wins a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to pursue simplified, automated security for sophisticated software.

Geoff Wehmeyer wins CAREER Award

Mechanical engineer Geoff Wehmeyer wins an NSF CAREER Award to study nanoscale heat transfer.

NSF funds Rice effort to measure, preserve quantum entanglement

Rice University physicist Guido Pagano has won a prestigious CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study quantum entanglement and develop new error-correcting tools for quantum computation.

Jo Nelson wins NSF CAREER Award

Rice University mathematician Jo Nelson wins a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for young faculty.

Vicente Ordóñez joins Rice with CAREER Award

Rice computer scientist Vicente Ordóñez receives an NSF CAREER Award to advance machine-learning algorithms’ ability to recognize complex visual concepts.

Pedram Hassanzadeh wins NSF CAREER Award

Atmospheric blocking is known to cause or exacerbate extreme weather events, but much about them remains a mystery. Rice University fluid dynamicist Pedram Hassanzadeh has won a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award to study these events with an eye toward better understanding the physics behind their complex mechanics.

Akane Sano wins NSF CAREER Award

Forget the mood ring. Akane Sano has a far better idea.

Christopher Tunnell wins NSF CAREER Award

Rice University computational astroparticle physicist Christopher Tunnell is getting help in his search for the nature of the universe through a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award.

Rice's Yingyan Lin receives NSF CAREER Award

Rice engineer Yingyan Lin has won a National Science CAREER Award to help close the gap between fast “deep learning” algorithm advances and slow accelerator development.

Rice scientist goes deep to improve environmental tracers

Rice Earth scientist Laurence Yeung earns a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award to improve our understanding of the biosphere’s productivity.

BioScience's Rosa Uribe wins NSF CAREER Award

Rice University neurodevelopmental biologist Rosa Uribe has won a prestigious CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.

Feds back Rice computer scientist’s security strategy

Ang Chen, an assistant professor of computer science at Rice University, is clearly poised for success. The National Science Foundation agrees.

Fed grant backs Rice earthquake research

Rice University Earth scientist Melodie French earns a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award to support her investigation of the tectonic roots of earthquakes and tsunamis.

Rice fluids researcher earns solid federal support

Rice University engineer Jesse Chan wins a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award to develop reliable simulations of fluid flow.