Data scientists go to the mat to learn about microbial networks
A project led by Rice University data scientists will attempt to define "social networks" in microbiomes, starting with microbial mats that thrive in Yellowstone Park's hot springs.
Vardi wins award for social and professional responsibility
Rice computer scientist Moshe Vardi has won the 2021 Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility from IEEE's Society on the Social Implications of Technology.
AI could expand healing with bioscaffolds
Artificial intelligence can speed the development of 3D-printed bioscaffolds that help injuries heal, according to Rice researchers.
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.
Scientists seek details of cancer’s evolutionary tree
Rice University computer scientists will take full advantage of new technology to sequence the genome of a single cell to decode mysteries contained in tumors.
Six Rice-TMC research teams earn seed grants
Rice's Educational and Research Initiatives for Collaborative Health has announced six seed grants for research collaborations between faculty from Rice and the Texas Medical Center.
RAMBO speeds searches on huge DNA databases
Rice computer scientists are sending RAMBO to rescue genomic researchers who sometimes wait days or weeks for search results from enormous DNA databases.
People, papers and presentations Jul 14, 2021
Lydia Kavraki, the Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science and director of the Ken Kennedy Institute, is co-author of a commentary in the National Academy of Medicine on how the pandemic’s unprecedented stress on the U.S. health care system revealed its fragility and suggests how it could accelerate the advance of telehealth and digital medicine.
NIH grant boosts computational search for cancer drugs
Computer scientist Lydia Kavraki of Rice University’s Brown School of Engineering has won a prestigious National Institutes of Health U01 grant to develop a new approach to model and analyze protein-ligand interactions in cancer research.
Moshe Vardi earns top computer science honor
Rice's Moshe Vardi has won the 2021 ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award for his influential work at the interface of logic and computer science.
Rice's Moshe Vardi has won the 2021 Donald E. Knuth Prize, one of theoretical computer science's most prestigious annual awards.
Students’ model could help avoid costly natural gas compressor shutdowns
A student project to predict the need for maintenance in natural gas compressors and avoid unexpected shutdowns has won this year’s Data to Knowledge Lab Showcase.
Rice, Intel optimize AI training for commodity hardware
New AI software trains deep neural networks 15 times faster than platforms based on graphics processors.
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.
Bioinformatics tool accurately tracks synthetic DNA
A Rice computer science lab challenges -- and beats -- deep learning in a test to see if a new bioinformatics approach effectively tracks the lab of origin of a synthetic genetic sequence.