News
- November 2023 – Congratulations to Nhi Le on receiving the Ken Kennedy Institute Fellowship this year! The fellowship is a one-year graduate fellowship for graduate students working on research related to high performance computing, computational science and engineering, data science, and machine learning at Rice!
- September 2023 – Congratulations to Toan Nguyen on being accepted to the Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium! Toan worked with Eric through an REU research project during Summer 2023.
- September 2023 – Congratulations to Qiang Heng on passing his oral defense! Qiang will be joining Kenneth Lange and Hua Zhou at UCLA Computational Medicine as a postdoc. Congratulations, Dr. Heng!
- August 2023 - Very excited and honored to receive the Rice-IITK Strategic Collaborative Grant with Dootika Vats to work on “Uncertainty Quantification: Leveraging Synergy between Optimization and Sampling”!
- July 2023 - Qiang Heng receives a travel award to present a poster at the Acceleration and Extrapolation Methods Workshop at ICERM, Brown University. Qiang will be presenting his work on Anderson Accelerated Operator Splitting for Convex-nonconvex Regularization. Congratulations, Qiang!
- July 2022 – Congratulations to Xiaoqian Liu on passing her oral defense! Xiaoqian will be joining Wenyi Wang’s lab at UT MD Anderson, Houston, TX as a postdoc. Congratulations, Dr. Liu!
- November 2021 – Congratulations to Min Zhang on passing her oral defense! Min will be working at Facebook in Menlo Park, CA as Research Scientist. Congratulations, Dr. Zhang!
- September 2021 – Congratulations to Weilan Zhou on passing his oral defense! Weilan will be working at Amazon as Applied Scientist. Congratulations, Dr. Zhou!
- July 2021 – Congratulations to Xu Han on passing his oral defense! Xu will be working at Tencent in Beijing, China as Data Scientist in the Platform and Content Group. Congratulations, Dr. Han!
- May 2021 – Min receives a Student Travel Award, North Carolina Chapter of the American Statistical Association to present at the 2021 Symposium on Data Science and Statistics. Congratulations, Min!
- April 2021 – Xiaoqian receives a Givens Associate Fellowship. Congratulations, Xiaoqian!
- November 2020 – Eric receives an NC State College of Sciences LeRoy and Elva Martin Award.
- September 2020 – Xiaoqian receives a Student Travel Award, North Carolina Chapter of the American Statistical Association to present at the 2020 Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference. Congratulations, Xiaoqian!
- September 2020 – Min receives a 2020 Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference Early Career Award. Congratulations, Min!
- August 2019 – Congratulations to Yuan (Brian) Feng on passing his oral defense! Brian will be working at Walmart eCommerce in Sunnyvale, CA as Product Manager. Congratulations, Dr. Feng!
- December 2018 – Congratulations to Meng Yang on passing his oral defense! Meng will be working at SAS as Research Statistician Developer in Raleigh, NC. Congratulations, Dr. Yang!
- January 2018 – Meng Yang receives a SAS Statistical Summer Fellowship for Summer 2018! Congratulations, Meng!
- January 2018 – Eric was awarded an NSF CAREER grant for his project on “Stable and Scalable Estimation of the Intrinsic Geometry of Multiway Data.” Read more about it in this NC State’s College of Sciences News article.
- December 2017 – Congratulations to Brian Gaines on passing his oral defense! Brian is now working at SAS as Research Statistician Developer in Raleigh, NC. Congratulations, Dr. Gaines!
- June 2017 – Eric was awarded a Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award. [article]