The Ken Kennedy Institute's July Member of the Month: Sebastian Perez-Salazar

The Ken Kennedy Institute's July Member of the Month: Sebastian Perez-Salazar, Assistant Professor of Computational Applied Mathematics & Operations Research.

The Ken Kennedy Institute's June Member of the Month: Stephen Bradshaw

The Ken Kennedy Institute's June Member of the Month: Stephen Bradshaw, Professor and Associate Department Chair of Physics & Astronomy.

The Ken Kennedy Institute's May Member of the Month: Darin Acosta

The Ken Kennedy Institute's May Member of the Month: Darin Acosta, Professor of Physics and Astronomy.

The Ken Kennedy Institute's April Member of the Month: Vicente Ordóñez-Román

The Ken Kennedy Institute's April Member of the Month: Vicente Ordóñez-Román, Associate Professor of Computer Science.

Vicente's research interests lie at the intersection of computer vision, natural language processing and machine learning. His focus is on building efficient visual recognition models that can perform tasks that leverage both images and text. At Rice University, he is part of the vision, language and learning (vislang) lab.

The Ken Kennedy Institute's March Member of the Month: Lauren Stadler

The Ken Kennedy Institute's March Member of the Month: Lauren Stadler, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Research Faculty, NEWT.

The Ken Kennedy Institute's February Member of the Month: Loren Hopkins

The Ken Kennedy Institute's February Member of the Month: Loren Hopkins, Professor in the Practice of Statistics at Rice University; Chief Environmental Science Officer and Bureau Chief in the Data Science Division at the Houston Health Department.

The Ken Kennedy Institute's January Member of the Month: Vladimir "Vova" Braverman

The Ken Kennedy Institute's January Member of the Month: Vladimir "Vova" Braverman, Victor E. Cameron Professor of Computer Science. Prior to joining Rice, Vova was an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, with the secondary appointment in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics.

The Ken Kennedy Institute's December Member of the Month: César Uribe

The Ken Kennedy Institute's December Member of the Month: César Uribe, Louis Owen Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering. César Uribe joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice in January 2021 after being a Postdoctoral Associate in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems-LIDS at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-MIT until 2020. He also holds a visiting professor position at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

The Ken Kennedy Institute's November Member of the Month: Tolga Tezcan

The Ken Kennedy Institute's November Member of the Month: Tolga Tezcan, Professor of Operations Management; Academic Director of Business Analytics. Prior to joining Rice, Tolga Tezcan was on the faculties at the University of Illinois, the University of Rochester and London Business School, and he also served as an academic director at London Business School. Tolga currently teaches courses on Operations Management, Business Analytics and Data Mining.

The Ken Kennedy Institute's October Member of the Month: Ramamoorthy Ramesh

The Ken Kennedy Institute's October Member of the Month: Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Vice President for Research; Professor, Materials Science and Nanoengineering, Physics and Astronomy. Ramamoorthy Ramesh, a condensed matter physicist and materials scientist with more than 25 years in academia, industry, national labs and government service, was named Rice University’s vice president for research on August 15, 2022.