The George R. Brown School of Engineering awarded Lydia Kavraki with the 2019/20 Outstanding Faculty Research Award.

The Outstanding Faculty Research Award is awarded to faculty who most contributed to highly impactful publications or publicly available software, based on research conducted at Rice and published/developed dring the period January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2019.

Lydia Kavraki is the Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science, Professor of Bioengineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering and is the Ken Kennedy Institute Director.

"Lydia Kavraki has positioned Rice as the go to place for motion-planning software."