Seven research teams win Carbon Hub funding
Carbon Hub, Rice University's zero-emissions research initiative, has awarded seed grants for seven projects that will rapidly advance its vision for transforming the oil and gas sector into a leading provider of both clean hydrogen energy and solid carbon products that can be used in place of materials with large carbon footprints.
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.
Brain-to-brain communication demo receives DARPA funding
Wireless linkage of brains may soon go to human testing with $8 million for preclinical demonstrations.
‘Soft’ nanoparticles give plasmons new potential
Bigger is not always better, but here’s something that starts small and gets better as it gets bigger.
AI-powered microscope could check cancer margins in minutes
Researchers from Rice University and MD Anderson Cancer Center have created a microscope that uses artificial intelligence to quickly and inexpensively image large tissue sections at high resolution with minimal preparation. If clinically validated, the DeepDOF microscope could allow surgeons to inspect tumor margins within minutes.
Sheets of carbon nanotubes come in a rainbow of colors
Nanomaterials researchers in Finland, the United States and China have created a color atlas for 466 unique varieties of single-walled carbon nanotubes.
Top Rice data science team shows heart in plan to save babies
Winning Data to Knowledge Lab project uses data science techniques to help save babies with congenital heart defects.
Sabharwal elected fellow of National Academy of Inventors
Ashutosh Sabharwal, the Ernest Dell Butcher Professor and chair of electrical and computer engineering and a pioneer in two areas of wireless and health technologies has been elected a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
People, papers and presentations Dec 7,2020
Richard Baraniuk, the Victor E. Cameron Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a professor of computer science, is co-author of the introduction to “The Science of Deep Learning,” a special issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Rice physicist shares grant to advance imaging
The lab of physicist Junichiro Kono will share in a $1 million grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to improve imaging of proteins, cells and tissues.
AI helps scientists understand brain activity behind thoughts
Researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University have developed artificial intelligence models that help them better understand the brain computations that underlie thoughts.
People, papers and presentations November 23, 2020
Kevin Kelly, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, has an open-access featured perspective in the Journal of Chemical Physics.
Rice researchers top two categories in ‘Create the Future’ contest
Rice University was a double winner in the annual Create the Future Design Contest, an international competition in its 19th year.