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Lydia E. Kavraki
Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science
Professor of Bioengineering (Joint Appointment)
Rice University
Professor, Graduate Program in Structural and Computational Biology
and Molecular Biophysics (Joint Appointment)
Baylor College of Medicine
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Contact Information
Office: DH 3106
Directions to my office can be found here.
Tel: (713) 348-5737
Fax: (713) 348-5930
"my last name"@rice.edu
IEEE RAS Distinguished Lecturer Program
I do public lectures promoting robotics, as part of the subsidized IEEE RAS Distinguished Lecturer Program. Here is some information for visit requests. My lectures are mostly on topics related to robotics and motion planning, but I also lecture on the application or robotics and geometric techniques to computational structural biology and on "physical algorithms".
Kavraki's Short Biographical Sketch
A short biographical sketch (suitable for talks)
can be found here.
Some Additional Information
Lydia Kavraki is affiliated with
Kavraki has served in the program committees of several bioinformatics,
robotics, and AI conferences (RECOMB, CSB, ROBOTICS SCIENCE AND SYSTEMS,
ICRA, IROS, IJCAI, AAAI, ICRA, WAFR, ACM SCG) and co-organized
and co-chaired the
3rd International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations
of Robotics, the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center 61st Annual Symposium
on Cancer Research, and the 19th Keck Center Annual Research Conference.
She helped launch the Robotics Science and Systems Conference in 2005.
Kavraki has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed journal and conference
publications and is one of the authors of a new robotics textbook
titled "Principles of Robot Motion" published by MIT Press. She is
currently on the editorial board of the International Journal of Robotics
Research, the ACM/IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology
and Bioinformatics, and the Computer Science Review. She is also a
member of the editorial advisory board of the Springer
Tracts in Advanced 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 was inducted to the College of Fellows of the Association for
the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), to the College
of Fellows
of the American Institute
for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and to the World
Technology Network Fellows. Rice University
recognized Kavraki's teaching and research contributions by awarding her
the Charles Duncan Award.
She is a senior member of IEEE and
currently serves as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Robotics and
Automation Society.
Research
All the interesting stuff can be found in the web page of Kavraki's group:
The Physical and Biological Computing Group.
Kavraki is most proud of the accomplishments and awards of her students. Check our group's web page.
Teaching
Information about courses can be found on Owlnet and Owlspace. Over the years Kavraki has taught a variety of courses including
COMP482: Design and Analysis of Algorithms,
COMP280: The Mathematics of Computation,
COMP450: Algorithmic Robotics,
COMP470: Bioinformatics: from Sequence to Structure,
COMP650: Topics in Physical Computing, and others.
A Book:
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H. Choset, K. M.
Lynch, S. Hutchinson, G. Kantor, W. Burgard, L. E. Kavraki and S. Thrun,
MIT Press, Boston, 2005. |
Awards, Recent News, and Activities (a rather random collection)
- I have the honor to serve as a Distinguished Lecturer for 2008-2010 for
the IEEE Robotics
and Automation Society (RAS).
The Distinguished Lecturer Program is a flag ship program of RAS
and its goal is to promote the
field of Robotics and Automation to the broad engineering community and
to the public at large. My lectures range from technical lectures
to lectures aimed at non-specialists that can be given in high-schools,
science fairs, science museums etc.
Interested parties can contact me directly. IEEE chapters may
also request funding the visit through:
Requesting a Visit by a RAS Distinguished Lecturer.
- Associate Editor, The International Journal of Robotics Research.
- Associate Editor, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.
- Associate Editor for Computer Science Review.
- Editorial Board, Springer Tracks in Advanced Robotics.
This series covers the technical contents, applications, and multidisciplinary aspects
of robotics, embedded in the fields of Mechanical Engineering,
Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Control, and Life
Sciences, as well as the methodologies behind them.
- Co-Chair, the 19th Keck Center Annual Research Conference.
- Co-Chair, the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center 61st Annual Symposium on Cancer Research.
- Keynote speaker at the 2008 May meeting of the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT).
- A recent workshop on Hands-on Motion Planning at IROS 2008.
- College of Fellows, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. Check out these cool pictures.
- Co-Organizer, Robotics Session at the German-American Frontiers of Engineering
of the National Academy of Engineering, Germany, 2007.
- A recent workshop on Algorithmic Motion Planning for Autonomous Robots in Challenging Environments.
- Invited Speaker, Computing Research Association (CRA) Symposium,
2006 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting, St Louis,
MO, February 17, 2006.
- A robotics textbook
Principles of Robot Motion: Theory, Algorithms and Implementations. The book was published in 2005 by MIT Press. It was a privilege to contribute to that book.
- I gave a talk at the Distinguished Lecture Series of CISE at NSF in 2005.
- Here is some information about
CSters, the
Undergraduate Women in Computer Science Club, for which I am a mentor.
- Here is some information for the
CRA-W Distributed Mentor Program. If you are an undergraduate woman majoring in Computer Science do not miss
out on this opportunity.
- I am involved in the
Robotics Science and Systems Conference. This is
a new single-track conference aimed to promote the very best work in robotics.
Check it out!
- Keynote speaker,
2004 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference.
Several CSters from Rice traveled to the conference. See related
article.
- Kavraki received the Duncan Award for Excellence in Research and Teaching from Rice University.
- Fellow, World Technology Network in IT/Software.
- Kavraki was inducted to the College of Fellows
of the American Institute
for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
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Top TR 100 Young Innovators by MIT's Technology Review Magazine.
See related
article. Also here is the
pdf file from Technology Review (19MB).
- See recent article in Popular Science's
"Brilliant 10".
- Early Academic Career Award of the IEEE
Robotics and Automation Society.
See related article.
- ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award.
- Sloan Fellowship
- A book: Robotics: The Algorithmic Perspective
- I gave a plenary talk at the 1999
International Conference on
Artificial Intelligence.
- I was one of the organizers of the
Symposium for
Problem Solving Under Uncertainty and Incomplete Information, 1999
- Here is some information about my 1998 talk
at the Frontiers of Engineering Symposium of
the National Academy of Engineering.
- Pankaj Agrawal, Matt Mason, and myself co-chaired WAFR 98, the Third
International Workshop on the Algorithmic
Foundations of Robotics.
Last Updated January 2009
"my last name"@cs.rice.edu