During the competition, 10 graduate students, including ECE's Aswathy Girija, had just three minutes and a single slide to present a compelling oration on their thesis and its significance.
During the competition, 10 graduate students, including ECE's Aswathy Girija, had just three minutes and a single slide to present a compelling oration on their thesis and its significance.
Rice University researchers have won a prestigious National Institutes of Health grant to build data analysis tools and analyze how exposure to mixed toxins in the environment affects a population, especially children.
“The project will produce a platform technology for in vivo, 3-D tissue imaging, with the aim of being able to point a camera to a part of the body and see live biology below the skin without making an incision or drawing blood,” said Rice Professor Ashutosh Sabharwal, the principal investigator on the grant.
STAT Madness is a bracket-style contest to find the best innovation in science and medicine and this year, Rice has two entries: the FlatScope out of ECE and the Single-molecule Drill out of Chemistry.
The proposal is titled “Scaling-up Machine Learning via Probabilistic Hashing.” They will receive $80,000 in funding and an additional $20,000 in Amazon Web Services Promotional Credits to pursue their research.
Lihong Wang, who earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering while working with two Nobel Laureates at Rice, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, which cited him for his “inventions in photoacoustic microscopy enabling functional, metabolic, and molecular imaging in vivo.”Â
The assistant professor of computer science has joint appointments at Rice University in electrical and computer engineering, and in statistics.
What brought Tittel to Rice was a still-new technology, the laser (light amplification by simulated emission of radiation). The first was built in 1960 by Theodore H. Maiman at Hughes Research Laboratories.Â
ECE students Christopher Metzler and Ewa Nowara are among the award recipients.Â
After over five years of dedicated service as executive administrator, the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department bids farewell to Carrie Toffoletto before she transitions to the Office of the Provost.Â