Awards

Lydia Kavraki

  • Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies, Elected Member
  • The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas (TAMEST), Member
  • AAAS Fellow
  • ACM Fellow
  • IEEE Fellow
  • AAAI Fellow
  • AIMBE Fellow
  • WTN Fellow
  • BioHouston’s 2012 Women in Science Award
  • ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award
  • Celebrating Women in Science Award, BioHouston Inc.
  • Charles Duncan Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement, Rice University
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Early Academic Career Award
  • 100 World’s Top Young Innovators by MIT’s Technology Review Magazine
  • Brilliant 10 Scientists, Popular Science Magazine
  • Sloan Fellow
  • NSF Career Award

Post-docs

Bryant Gipson

  • National Library of Medicine (NLM) Keck Fellowship, 2010
  • Distinguished Scholar Award (DSA) from the Microbeam Analysis Society (MAS), 2008
  • Judge Selected Talk, Gordon Research Conference on 3DEM, 2007
  • 3rd Place, Mu Alpha Theta Math Competition, 2002

Ankur Dhanik

  • Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas Keck Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2010-2012
  • Outstanding Research Poster Award, Stanford University, 2010
  • Research Fellowship, National University of Singapore, 2004-2005
  • Student Scholarship, EPFL, Switzerland, 2002
  • Innovative Robot Design Award, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 2001
  • National Child Scientist Award, India, 1996

Allison Heath

  • Shell Center for Sustainability Fellow, 2011
  • Keck Center Biomedical Discovery from Large Scale Data Sets Training Program, Predoctoral Fellowship, 2009
  • Best Oral Presentation Award: Corporate Affiliates Meeting, Rice Univ. 2008
  • Google Anita Borg Scholarship, 2008.
  • NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2004.
  • Rice University Doctoral Fellowship, 2004.
  • CRA-W Distributed Mentor Program Award, 2003
  • Brown Undergraduate Research Internship Award, 2002

Graduate Students

Drew Bryant

  • Schlumberger Graduate Fellowship, 2011
  • Best Poster Award, 3DSIG (ISMB satellite conference), 2010
  • Andrew Ladd Memorial Fellowship, 2009
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2008
  • John and Ellen Tietze Fellowship, 2008
  • Janessa Shapiro Award, 2007
  • James S. Waters Creativity Award, 2007
  • First Place, Engineering Division, Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium Poster Contest, 2007
  • Outstanding Senior Design Project Award for ”Nanosorter: A High-Throughput Nanoshell Sorting Device”, 2007
  • Rice Bioengineering Outstanding Contributions to Research Award, 2007
  • Texas Space Grant Consortium Scholarship Award, 2006
  • W.M. Keck Center Undergraduate Research Training Program Fellowship, 2005.
  • Brown Undergraduate Research Internship Award, 2004

Devin Grady

  • Schlumberger Graduate Fellowship, 2012
  • NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2010
  • Best Poster Design Award: Corporate Affiliates Meeting (jointly with Ioan Sucan), Rice Univ. 2009
  • Texas Instruments Fellowship, 2008
  • Member of Sigma Pi Sigma (National Physics honor society), 2007

Matt Maly

  • Charles Babbage & Ada Lovelace Computing Award, Trinity University, 2010.
  • Outstanding Senior Research Award, Trinity University, 2010.
  • Mach Student Research Fellow, Trinity University, 2009.
  • Outstanding Junior Research Award, Trinity University, 2009.

Ioan Alexandru Sucan

  • Best Poster Design Award: Corporate Affiliates Meeting (jointly with Devin Grady), Rice Univ. 2009
  • Best Technical Contribution Award: Corporate Affiliates Meeting, Rice Univ. 2008
  • Rice University Doctoral Fellowship, 2006.
  • Member of presidents lists, International University Bremen (IUB), academic years 2003-2006.
  • Selected for the Rice-IUB student exchange program for fall 2005.
  • Honorable mention at the Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2005.

Undergraduate Students

Katherine Davis

Nicolas Feltman

  • 3rd place in ACM ICPC South Central Regional USA Programming Contest
  • Century Scholar

Chengwei Peng

Santiago Neira

  • Brown Undergraduate Research Fellow, Fall 2010

Distinctions and Awards - Past Members

Mert Akinc

  • Brown Undergraduate Research Internship Award, 2002
  • President's Honor Roll, 2000, 2001
  • National Merit Scholar

Elliot Anshelevish

  • NSF Graduate Fellowship, 1999
  • Cornell University Fellowship, 1999

Kostas Bekris

  • Paper invited to a special issue of the ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications Journal (MONET), 2008.
  • Best Student Paper award at the First International Conference on Robot Communication and Coordination (ROBOCOMM), 2007.
  • First place at the poster competition of the Corporate Affiliates Meeting, Rice Univ. 2007
  • Nettie S. Autrey Graduate Fellowship, associated with an award of $12000, 2006.
  • First place at the poster competition of the Corporate Affiliates Meeting (joint work with Konstantinos Tsianos), Rice Univ. 2006.
  • Paper invited to the collection Imaging Beyond the Pinhole Camera, 2006.
  • Paper invited to ACM Journal on Special Topics in Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), 2005.
  • Honorable mention at the poster competition of the Corporate Affiliates Meeting, Rice Uni. 2005.
  • Recipient of the "George R. Brown Fellowship" by Rice University, 2004.
  • Paper invited to Eleventh International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR) , 2003.
  • Hellenic Professional Society of Texas Scholarship, 2002.
  • Paper invited to the Special Issue "Intelligent Sensing, Image Processing and Applications" of the Journal "Image Processing and Communications", 2001.
  • Rice University Doctoral Fellowship, 2001.
  • University of Crete, Computer Science Department, Best Student Award 2001.
  • Greek Institute of State Fellowships student award for 4 consecutive years: 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001.

David Carr

  • Century Scholar, Rice University, 2003

Annie Christian

  • CRA-W Distributed Mentor Program Award, 2002
  • Schlumberger undergraduate fellowship, 2002

Amanda Cruess

  • Computer Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) Distributed Mentor Project Award, Summer 2005
  • Rice University Trustee Distinguished Scholarship, 2003-present
  • National Merit Finalist, 2003

Tim Danner

  • CRA Honorable Mention. See related article.
  • James S. Waters Creativity Student Award, Rice University, 2000. See related article.
  • Brown Undergraduate Research Internship Award, 1999

Brad Dodson

  • Rice Century Scholar
  • National Merit Finalist
  • Siemens National AP Award Winner

Max Glick

  • Recipient of Brown Undergraduate Research Fellowship, summer 2005.

Andrew Ladd

  • Paper invited to ACM Journal on Special Topics in Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), 2005.
  • Fellowship to pursue research at the Doctoral level from the Quebec government ( Fonds de recherche sur la nature et les technologies ) , $20000(CAN) per year for three years (Fall 2002 -- Summer 2005).
  • International Conference on AI Planning Systems (ICAPS 2004). Invited to give a half-day tutorial session on Robot Motion Planning.
  • Paper invited to International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 2004.
  • NITC Bursary from McGill University and the Quebec Government. See related article.
  • Paper invited to Eleventh International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR) , 2003.
  • Rice University Doctoral Fellowship, 2000
  • Fellowship to pursue research at the Master's level from the Quebec government ( Fonds de recherche sur la nature et les technologies ), $15000(CAN) per year for two years (Fall 2000 -- Summer 2002).
  • National Science and Engineering Research Counsel of Canada Summer Undergraduate Research Award, $5000(CAN) for the summer, received seperately in Summer 1999 and in Summer 2000.

Brian Chen

  • Travel Fellowship, Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, 2005.
  • Fellowship, Computational Biology and Medicine Training Program (NLM / Keck), 2004, renewed 2005. (NLM 5T15LM07093).
  • NLM Fellowship through the Keck Center for Computational and Structural Biology of the Gulf Coast Consortia, 2003.
  • Travel Fellowship, RECOMB 2003, 2001.
  • Rice University Doctoral Fellowship, 2000.
  • Awarded membership, Mensa Society, Sept 1998.

Thomas Mowad

  • Louis J. Walsh Engineering Scholarship
  • Rice University President's Honor Roll

Jeff Phillips

  • Draper Fellowship, 2003
  • James S. Waters Creativity Student Award, Rice University, 2002 (see related article)
  • NASA/Texas Space Grant Consortium Undergraduate Scholarship, 2002 (see related article)
  • Brown Undergraduate Research Internship Award, 2001
  • Vice President's Appreciation Award for Community Service, 2001
  • Who's Who Among Students in American Universities & Colleges, 2000-2001

Erion Plaku

  • George R. Brown Fellowship, Rice University, 2006. Highest GPA during each of 1st--4th year of graduate studies in Computer Science.
  • George R. Brown Fellowship, Rice University, 2005.
  • George R. Brown Fellowship, Rice University, 2004.
  • Paper invited to International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR), Siena, Italy, 2003.
  • Rice University Doctoral Fellowship, 2002.
  • Clarkson University Fellowship for studies leading to a Master's degree, 2000-2002.
  • Recipient of the George Soros Scholarship, 1996-2000.
  • John Beck Scholarship, SUNY Fredonia, 1998. Academic excellence and outstanding work in Computer Science.
  • Phi-Mu-Epsilon, SUNY Fredonia, 1997. National Honorary Mathematics Society.
  • Ruth Tice Callahan Award, SUNY Fredonia, 1997.
  • International Mathematics Olympiad, Mumbai, India, 1996. Albanian National Team.
  • Balkan Olympiad of Mathematics, Bacau, Romania, 1996. Albanian National Team.
  • Balkan Chess Championship, Durres, Albania, 1992. Albanian National Team U21.

Evan Roseman

  • Century Scholar, Rice University, 2001

Paul Murphy

  • Fellowship for the MD/PhD program at the University of Washington-Seattle, 2002
  • Brown Undergraduate Research Internship Award, 2001
  • Keck Undergraduate Research Trainee, 2000

David Schwarz

  • Presidential Fellowship, Rice University 2001-2004
  • National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, 2001-2004
  • Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society, 1998.
  • National Merit Scholar, 1995.

Amarda Shehu

  • Recipient of a training fellowship from the Keck Center Nanobiology Training Program of the Gulf Coast Consortia (NIH Grant No. 1 R90 DK071504-01), 2007.
  • Recipient of a training fellowship from the Keck Center Nanobiology Training Program of the Gulf Coast Consortia (NIH Grant No. 1 R90 DK071504-01), 2006.
  • NSF ADVANCE Workshop on Negotiating the Ideal Faculty Position, Rice University, 2006; Selected as one of 55 attendees from a group of over 730 applicants.
  • Recipient of a training fellowship from the Keck Center Nanobiology Training Program of the Gulf Coast Consortia (NIH Grant No. 1 R90 DK071504-01), 2005.
  • Invited Talk to the 10-th Structural Biology Symposium at UTMB, Galveston, TX, May, 2005.
  • First place at the poster competition of the Corporate Affiliates Meeting (joint work with Jessica Wu), Rice Univ. 2005.
  • Winner of poster competition at the Corporate Affiliates Meeting, Rice Univ. 2003.
  • Rice University Doctoral Fellowship, 2002.
  • Best poster in the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), 2002.
  • Presidential Scholarship, Clarkson University 2000-2002.
  • Honors Scholarship in recognition of academic excellence, Clarkson Univesity, 2002.
  • Phi-Mu-Epsilon Fellowship Award to the Best student in Computer Science and Mathematics, Clarkson University 2001.
  • Recipient of the University Recognition Day award, the Hamlin/Darraugh award, in Mathematics and Computer Science, Clarkson University, 2001.
  • International Student Excellence Award, Clarkson University 2001.
  • Honorable mention at the International Competition of Mathematics, Turkey 1997.

Hernan Stamati

  • Recipient of a training fellowship from the Keck Center Pharmacoinformatics Training Program of the Gulf Coast Consortia (NIH Grant No.5 T90 DK070109-02), Rice University, 2006.
  • Third place at the poster competition of the Corporate Affiliates Meeting, Rice Univ. 2006.
  • Recipient of the "George R. Brown Fellowship" for highest GPA in Computer Science (2005).
  • Rice University Doctoral Fellowship, 2004.
  • ITBA Diploma and Medal of Honor - best in class award (2001).
  • R&D prize for "Speech Recognition Using Genetic Algorithms" (2001).

Miguel Teodoro

  • Paper invited to Current Pharamceutical Design, 2003
  • Paper invited to Journal of Computational Biology, 2003
  • W.M. Keck Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 2002-2003
  • Nettie S. Autrey Graduate Fellowship. See related article.
  • Doctoral Research Fellowship, Portuguese Ministry of Science and Technology

Konstantinos Tsianos

  • Paper invited to a special issue of the ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications Journal (MONET), 2008.
  • Best Student Paper award at the First International Conference on Robot Communication and Coordination (ROBOCOMM), 2007.
  • Hellenic Professional Society of Texas Scholarship, February 2007
  • First place at the poster competition of the Corporate Affiliates Meeting (joint work with Kostas Bekris), Rice Univ. 2006.
  • Rice University Doctoral Fellowship, 2005.

Jessica Wu

  • CRA-W Distributed Mentor Program Participant, 2005.
  • ExxonMobil Temple Scholarship, 2004, 2005.
  • Louis J. Walsh Engineering Scholarship, 2003, 2005.
  • George S. Cohen Memorial Scholarship, 2003, 2005.
  • Emma S. McGree Scholarship, 2003, 2005.