Rice U.’s Kaiyu Hang wins NSF CAREER Award
July 25, 2023
Kaiyu Hang, an assistant professor of computer science at Rice University, has won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to develop robots that can manipulate unfamiliar objects in high-uncertainty situations.
Rice U. experts available to comment on White House AI briefing
July 24, 2023
Rice University AI experts Fred Oswald and Moshe Vardi are registered to attend a White House briefing this afternoon and are available to comment on its proceedings and likely challenges and potential outcomes of recent developments in AI industry advancements and regulation.
Rice U. expert available to discuss Llama 2 launch
July 20, 2023
The new open-source large language model, Llama 2, launched by Facebook parent company, Meta, last Tuesday allows users to adapt and develop artificial intelligence tools ⎯ including for use in commercial products ⎯ but the move raises urgent questions about the risks and potential benefits to how information is produced and disseminated.
Four Rice undergraduates latest Owls to win coveted Goldwater Scholarship
July 19, 2023
Rising Rice seniors Maria Hancu, Alex Lin, Ryan Wang and Ruofeng “Charlie” Liu are the latest Owls to win the coveted Goldwater Scholarship, one of the most prestigious honors bestowed each year upon pioneering STEM undergraduates across the country planning to pursue doctoral degrees.
Researchers give robots new options for arrangements
June 23, 2023
Rice computer scientists have expanded the options robots have for rearranging objects with a new algorithm that allows them to switch between complementary skills like grabbing and placing individual objects or pushing and sliding entire groups.
Rice U.’s Anastasios Kyrillidis wins Amazon Research Award
May 16, 2023
Anastasios Kyrillidis, Rice University’s Noah Harding Assistant Professor of Computer Science, won one of 79 Amazon Research Awards (ARA) with a project titled “Efficient and affordable transformers for distributed platforms.”
Rice U.’s Moshe Vardi named Royal Society fellow
May 10, 2023
Moshe Vardi, Rice University’s Karen Ostrum George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering and computer science professor, was elected a Foreign Member of the United Kingdom’s Royal Society.