Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning at Rice University draws on computer science, mathematics, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, and other disciplines. Much of the work at Rice is focused on the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Group, headed by world-renowned robotics researcher Lydia Kavraki.
Research focuses on automata reasoning, deep learning, machine learning, optimization and large-scale machine learning, network analytics, and graph signal processing, and quantum computing and algorithms. Machine-learning algorithms developed at Rice aid in such tasks as data visualization and exploration, dimensionality reduction, nonlinear regression, and pattern classification.