Rice Computer Science

We’re excited to receive the NVIDIA Academic Grant Program Award #NVIDIAGrant🎉🥳 Thank you to @NVIDIAAIDev @NVIDIAAI for the support! This award is extremely helpful in advancing our research on LLM Architectural Design and Optimization, led by @ChunyuanDeng @RiceCompSci🔥

Congratulations to Moshe @Vardi, Univ Prof at Rice, named a 2026 NAAI Academy Award laureate by the National Academy of Artificial Intelligence. He was recognized for his seminal contributions to logic-based AI & formal reasoning in intelligent systems. bit.ly/4bv5ahg

How do we ensure robots serve people responsibly? @LydiaKavraki, University Professor & Director of @ricekenkennedy, co-edited a special issue of @ieeeras' magazine on #robotethics — exploring safety, regulation and human-centered design. bit.ly/4b42hVM

Today is Rice's 24-Hour Challenge! Your contribution to the CS Excellence Fund supports our students and the department’s most pressing needs. Be a part of our CS legacy & help us continue making an impact. Make your gift before 11:59 pm CT to join. givecampus.com/s/zvb1q2

Join Rice CS faculty member Rodrigo Ferreira for the Imaging after Photography Symposium at the Moody. He'll moderate the panel discussion on AI: art, autonomy, and automation. Registration is required; limited seating. moody.rice.edu/events/imaging…

Early giving for Rice's 24-Hour Challenge starts today! Your contribution to the CS Department Excellence Fund, no matter the size, directly supports our students and the department’s most pressing needs. #1Day1Rice Make your gift: givecampus.com/s/zvb1q2

Rice's Workshop on Large Language Models will bring together researchers & practitioners to explore the forefront of LLM development, from novel architectures, data curation, and training strategies to interpretability, agentic AI & human-AI collaboration. llm-frontiers.github.io

A recording of Moshe Vardi's World Logic Day talk, Are AI Minds Genuine Minds?, is now available to watch on YouTube. youtube.com/watch?v=KRSRC6…

Join Rice CS as we welcome Jeff Vitter, 17th Chancellor & Distinguished Prof of Comp Science & Info Science Emeritus at the Univ of Mississippi. Dr. Vitter will discuss An Efficient Heuristic for Graph Edit Distance. Jan 30th, 4pm CST Duncan Hall 1070 bit.ly/4pG4PgE

We're thrilled to share that @usnews' latest report ranks the Rice Online Master of Computer Science (MCS) No. 3 nationally in the Best Online Master’s in Information Technology Programs category, jumping seven spots from last year’s No. 10 ranking. news.rice.edu/news/2026/rice…

Starting today at 4pm CST...

Join University Professor Moshe @Vardi for his @UNESCO 2026 World Logic Day talk. He will discuss whether AI minds are genuine minds. Tues, Jan 20th @ 4pm CST (Reception at 5pm) Rice University, Duncan Hall The talk will be online and in person. RSVP: vardi.eventbrite.com

“It’s Not the AI – It’s Each of Us!” Co-authored by @RiceCompSci's Moshe Vardi, the proposed “Ten Commandments for the Wise and Responsible Use of AI” argues that regulation and technical solutions, while essential, are not enough. cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/its-n…

🚀 Big updates to RouterArena! - 🪪 We've added Router Cards that give you a deep dive into each router at a glance (Fig. 1). - 🔍 Click in to see fine-grained performance breakdowns by query domain, sub-domain, and difficulty level (Fig. 2). - 📊 And now, you can compare any router against all others on the leaderboard across all these dimensions in one place (Fig. 3). We're actively expanding the leaderboard—if you're building an LLM router, we'd love for you to try it on RouterArena and share your results. Website: routeworks.github.io Code repo: github.com/RouteWorks/Rou…

🎉 Congrats to Rice CS researchers on making it to the @xprize Quantum Applications finals! Their novel algorithm has the potential to speed up #quantumcomputing. Team lead Jianqiang Li is advised by @naihuichia, Anastasios Kyrillidis & Tirthak Patel. bit.ly/4j5CPld

Save the date! For @UNESCO's 2026 World Logic Day, University Professor Moshe @Vardi will discuss whether AI minds are genuine minds. The talk will be online and in person. Tues, Jan 20th @ 4pm CST (Reception following at 5pm) For details and to RSVP: vardi.eventbrite.com

Rice CS' T. S. Eugene Ng has been named a 2025 ACM Distinguished Member for his contributions to data center networking & internet delay estimation methods. Ng’s work has helped shape how modern networks are designed, measured & optimized. @TheOfficialACM bit.ly/4q6a8qj

Congratulations to Tirthak Patel, @RiceCompSci assistant professor, for receiving the 2025 @IEEEorg Early Career Researcher Award for Excellence in High Performance Computing. bit.ly/4pntZS7

Ever wondered who decides which LLM answers your question? A router. But… how good is it? 🤔 📢 We built RouterArena—the first open leaderboard for comprehensive router evaluation. 🔗github.com/RouteWorks/Rou…

Tomorrow! Local to Houston or in town for Alumni Weekend? Please join Rice CS for our alumni meetup. A reception will be followed by talks on the latest with Rice CS, the new AI major & new dept research. Tickets for Alumni Weekend not required. RSVP: RiceCSHou.eventbrite.com