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GRASP Lab Seminar 2003-2004
January 16, 11:00 AM, Levine Hall 307, hosted by Kostas Daniildis.
Lydia Kavraki
Rice University
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Biography: Lydia Kavraki is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Rice University. She also holds a joint appointment with the Department of Bioengineering at Rice and the Department of Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics at the Baylor College of Medicine. She is also affiliated with the M.W. Keck Center for Computational Biology and the MD/PhD program at the Baylor College of Medicine.
Kavraki's research is in the areas of bioinformatics, robotics and physical algorithms. She leads the Physical and Biological Computing Group at Rice. Kavraki has served in the program committees of several bioinformatics, robotics, and AI conferences (RECOMB, IROS, IJCAI, AAAI, ICRA, WAFR, ACM SCG) and organized and chaired the 3rd International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics. Kavraki's work has been recognized with the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award. Kavraki was also was fortunate to receive the NSF CAREER Award (Early Career Development Award), a Sloan Research Fellowship and the Early Academic Career Award from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. Kavraki was selected as one of the Top 100 Young Innovators by MIT's Technology Review Magazine and was featured among the "Brilliant 10" investigators of the Popular Science Magazine. Kavraki has authored 8 book chapters, more than 60 peer-reviewed scientific papers and is the editor of one book.
