The Research Enterprise - Graduate Students
Graduate students are the lifeblood of university research labs. They work on problems that may have a direct effect on people's lives tomorrow or in twenty years. It is their inquisitiveness, inventiveness and energy that lead to the solution of some of sociey's thorniest problems. Graduate students delve deeply into narrow areas of research and demonstrate their expertise through their dissertations. Here are some examples of what Rice engineering graduate students are working on.
CS graduate student Sean Doyle takes the "Knight's Tour" into approximate model counting—that is, computing the number of models for a given
Ryan Luna's job is to write algorithms that will control the movements of robots—robots used in space.
Supercomputers are key to finding the gold in big data and Simbarashe Dzinamarira is working to make them work faster.
Sruthi Radhakrishnan has found a possible new use for graphene: a non-toxic MRI contrast agent.
Bioengineer Jessica Dobbs works with imaging techniques to make histological diagnoses easier and faster.
Andrew Erwin is dedicated to helping people recover use of their upper limbs after accidents or strokes.
Emily Yedinak loves carbon and what it might potentially do to help clean up oil spills.