!!!Lydia Kavraki \\ %%(float:left;margin-left:20px;margin-right:30px;) [{Image src='Kavraki_Lydia_small.jpg' alt='Lydia Kavraki' height='220'}] %% [{AcadMemberDataPlugin}] \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ __Present and Previous Positions__ * 2019 Director, Ken Kennedy Institute, Rice University * 2017 Professor, Departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Mechanical Engineering * 2016 - 2019 Chair, Executive Committee, Keck Center of the Gulf Coast Consortia for Quantitative Biomedical Sciences * 2015 Director, National Library of Medicine Biomedical Informatics Training Program * 2006 - 2019 Rice University Institutional Training Director, Keck Center of the Gulf Coast Consortia for Quantitative Biomedical Sciences * 2004 Noah Harding Professor, Departments of Computer Science and Bioengineering, Rice University * 2001 - 2004 Associate Professor, Departments of Computer Science and Bioengineering, Rice University * 1996 - 2001 Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Rice University * 1995 - 1996 Research Associate, Robotics Laboratory, Stanford University * 1990 - 1994 Research Assistant, Stanford University * 1987 - 1989 Software Engineer, Foundation of Research and Technology, Greece \\ __Fields of Scholarship__ [{AcadMemberFOScholarshipPlugin}] \\ __Honours and Awards__ * 2020 ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award * 2020 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Pioneer Award * 2020 Member, International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering * 2018 Corresponding Member, Academy of Athens * 2017 ACM Athena Lecturer Award * 2016 Presidential Mentorship Award, Rice University * 2015 Anita Borg ABIE Technical Leadership Award * 2014 Honorary Member, Artificial Intelligence Society of Greece * 2012 Member, US National Academy of Medicine (NAM) * 2012 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) * 2012 Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) * 2012 World Open Source Software Challenge Grand Prize, OMPL (Open Motion Planning Library), * 2010 Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2010 * 2008 Fellow, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) * 2004 Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) * 2004 Fellow, The World Technology Network (WTN) * 2002 100 World’s Top Young Innovators by MIT’s Technology Review Magazine * 2002 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Early Academic Career Award * 2000 Fellow, Sloan Foundation * 2000 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award \\ %%columns-900 %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/paper_content_pencil_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Curriculum Vitae |User/Kavraki_Lydia/CV] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/book_48.png' class='image_left'}] [Publication list|User/Kavraki_Lydia/Publications] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/camera_noflash_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Highlights of my work and anecdotes|User/Kavraki_Lydia/Highlight] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/database_48.png' class='image_left'}] [Other information|User/Kavraki_Lydia/OtherInformation] %% %% [{ALLOW view All}] [{ALLOW edit lkavraki}] [{ALLOW upload lkavraki}] [{ALLOW comment All}]