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, 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.