The Ken Kennedy Institute's September Member of the Month: Dr. Patricia DeLucia

The Ken Kennedy Institute's September Member of the Month, Dr. Patricia DeLucia, Associate Dean for Research, School of Social Sciences; Professor of Psychological Sciences. Dr. DeLucia joined Rice University in 2018.

The Ken Kennedy Institute's August Member of the Month: Dr. Ashok Veeraraghavan

The Ken Kennedy Institute's August Member of the Month, Dr. Ashok Veeraraghavan, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Professor, Computer Science. Dr. Veeraraghavan received his B.Tech. in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 2002, and his master's and Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2004 and 2008, respectively. Ashok joined the ECE Department in 2010.

The Ken Kennedy Institute's July Member of the Month: Dr. Behnaam Aazhang

The Ken Kennedy Institute's July Member of the Month, Dr. Behnaam Aazhang, J.S. Abercrombie Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Director, Rice Neuroengineering Initiative (NEI). Dr. Aazhang is a Fellow of IEEE and AAAS, and a distinguished lecturer of IEEE Communication Society. He received his B.S. (with highest honors), M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1981, 1983, and 1986, respectively.

The Ken Kennedy Institute's June Member of the Month: Dr. Xia (Ben) Hu

The Ken Kennedy Institute's June Member of the Month, Dr. Xia (Ben) Hu, is the Director of the Data to Knowledge Lab (D2K) and an Associate Professor of Computer Science. Dr. Hu received BA and MS degrees from Beihang University and his PhD from Arizona State University. Dr. Hu has published over 100 papers in several major academic venues, including NeurIPS, ICLR, KDD, WWW, IJCAI, AAAI, etc. An open-source package developed by his group, namely AutoKeras, has become the most used automated deep learning system on Github (with over 8,000 stars and 1,000 forks).

The Ken Kennedy Institute's May Member of the Month: Dr. Eric Chi

The Ken Kennedy Institute's May Member of the Month, Dr. Eric Chi, is an Associate Professor of Statistics at Rice University. Dr. Chi received BA and PhD degrees from Rice University and an MS from the University of California, Berkeley. His PhD studies were funded through a Department of Energy Computational Sciences Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF). As part of this fellowship, he completed research practica at Sandia National Laboratories and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

The Ken Kennedy Institute's April Member of the Month: Dr. Guha Balakrishnan

The Ken Kennedy Institute's April Member of the Month, Dr. Guha Balakrishnan, is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University. Before joining Rice, Dr. Balakrishnan received his BS (2011) degrees in Computer Science Engineering and Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan, and his MS (2013) and PhD (2018) degrees in EECS from MIT.

The Ken Kennedy Institute's March Member of the Month: Dr. Meng Li

The Ken Kennedy Institute's March Member of the Month, Dr. Meng Li, is the Noah Harding Assistant Professor of Statistics at Rice University. Before joining Rice, Dr. Li was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistical Science at Duke University (2015-2017). His recent research focuses on statistical modeling of challenging data that arise in scientific and industrial applications such as images, functional data, networks, and tree-structured data, with theoretical guarantees and scalable implementation.

The Ken Kennedy Institute's February Member of the Month: Dr. K. Jane Grande-Allen

The Ken Kennedy Institute's February Member of the Month, Dr. K. Jane Grande-Allen's research applies engineering analysis to understand and fight heart valve disease. This involves mechanical testing, biochemical measurements, and microstructural analysis of critical components found in the extracellular matrix (ECM) that makes up cardiac tissue.

The Ken Kennedy Institute's January Member of the Month: Dr. Maria Oden

The Ken Kennedy Institute's January Member of the Month, Dr. Maria Oden has 25 years of combined academic, research, and clinical experience in biomedical engineering and engineering design. This solid background has been foundational to her leadership in biomedical engineering and use of engineering education to teach students to identify, innovate, and build devices and technologies that solve real-world problems.

The Ken Kennedy Institute's December Member of the Month: Dr. Arlei Silva

The Ken Kennedy Institute's December Member of the Month, Dr. Arlei Silva received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara, advised by Ambuj Singh, where he was also a postdoctoral scholar. Before that, he received a B.Sc and M.Sc degrees in Computer Science from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, in Brazil, advised by Wagner Meira Jr. He has also been a visiting scholar at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, hosted by Mohammed J. Zaki.