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Chinese AI lab DeepSeek's new open-source AI model, DeepSeek-R1, has become rapidly popular since last week's launch. Rice Computer Science and Rice Electrical & Computer Engineering experts are available to discuss the new model and weigh in on what it means for the future of AI. news.rice.edu/news/2025/rise…

Two Rice CS faculty members, Christopher Jermaine and Lydia Kavraki, have been named endowed chairs, exemplifying excellence in research and service. bit.ly/4aLnC4D

Congratulations to Naomi Halas for being awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry. Her pioneering work in nanoscience has made a tremendous impact on society. bit.ly/414Tv4E

Two students in Tirthak Patel’s PTL Lab received ACM Student Research Competition Awards for their quantum computing work. PhD student Jason Ludmir won first in the graduate category at #SC24 & Jason Han won first in the undergrad category at SIGMETRICS. bit.ly/4aTK0si

Rice scientists and collaborators at BCMHouston have found a new way to detect the presence of dangerous chemicals from tobacco smoke in human placenta. bit.ly/4jV2qwV

Congratulations to the Ken Kennedy Institute's director Lydia Kavraki on her well-deserved election to the National Academy of Engineering! Lydia is honored for her contributions to robotics, AI and computational biomedicine: news.rice.edu/news/2025/rice…

ICYMI: A recording of the Ken Kennedy Institute’s distinguished lecture and fireside chat with Kyle Cranmer (David R. Anderson Director of datascience@uw) is available on YouTube. “Emerging Patterns in AI for Science” | bit.ly/4393gk0

ICYMI: View the recording of our distinguished lecture with Margaret Martonosi (H.T. Adams ’35 Professor at Princeton Computer Science) on YouTube. “Taking on the World’s Challenges: The Role of Computer Systems and Architecture Research” | bit.ly/3CXL7ed

The 18th annual #EnergyHPC Conference is here! The morning began with opening remarks from Rice Provost Amy Byers Dittmar before the first keynote session with Biondo Biondi. Registration for Day 2 and the Thursday workshops will reopen 2/25 at 5:00 PM — energyhpc.rice.edu.

The Ken Kennedy Institute and Rice Computer Science will host a weekly AI Seminar Series on Thursdays at 12:00 PM in Duncan Hall: kenkennedy.rice.edu/ai-seminar 2/27 | "Exploring and Exploiting Shortcuts in AI/ML: Algorithms, Challenges and Solutions" | Professor Na Zou (University of Houston)

Registration is now open for Ken Kennedy Institute’s AI and Machine Learning Boot Camp happening May 7-9 at Rice University by nine Rice faculty. Visit kenkennedy.rice.edu/bootcamp to register!

Research cluster leads and seed funding recipients shared year-end research activity updates at the The Ken Kennedy Institute retreat yesterday, followed by a talk on the science of effective teaming by Eduardo Salas, associate VP for research, collaborative engagement and team science.

🌟Register for #QuantIPS2025 — a two-day summit exploring the world of #QuantumComputing on April 28-29 at Rice University🌟 ✅Keynotes by top researchers ✅Poster presentations (due April 20) ✅Topics: Quantum algorithms, variational methods & more! 📍sites.google.com/view/quantips-…

🤖✨Join the 2nd Texas Colloquium on #DistributedLearning (#TLDR2025) on May 1-2! 🌎🎓Register to learn from top researchers on #AI, #FederatedLearning, #Optimization, #Privacy and more. Poster applications are accepted now through April 20, 2025: sites.google.com/view/tldr-2025.

One week left for the early-bird sale! Register today for the #AI and #MachineLearning Boot Camp to learn from expert Rice faculty on May 7-9, 2025: kenkennedy.rice.edu/bootcamp

Rama Chellappa (JHU) will visit Rice on 4/16 for a seminar on "Understanding Actors, Actions and Scenes from Unconstrained Images and Videos Collected at Varying Altitudes and Ranges.” The lecture is at 12PM in Duncan Hall and ELEC 699/698 eligible: events.rice.edu/event/400875-e…

Join Rice ENRICH Office for Health Innovations in the Rice-TMC Ecosystem, a 2-day symposium about pioneering impactful innovations with the potential to improve global health outcomes. Register at bit.ly/3Y00ava.

The The Ken Kennedy Institute institute is offering a new AI and Machine Learning Boot Camp on May 7-9, designed for industry professionals, data science practitioners and technical managers. Register to advance applied skills through hands-on learning: rice-ai-ml-bootcamp.eventbrite.com

We are proud to congratulate Dr. Lydia E. Kavraki on her election to National Academy of Sciences—a prestigious honor recognizing the transformative impact of her work on science and society through AI, robotics, and biomedical engineering: news.rice.edu/news/2025/nati…