Rice statistician Marina Vannucci and lead author Sharon Chiang, an M.D./Ph.D. student at Rice and Baylor College of Medicine, and their co-authors detailed their technique to analyze brain activity data from patients with epilepsy and control groups to see how distinct structures in the brain spontaneously interact
Graduate students Kim Raath and Michael Weylandt were among the nine recipients of graduate fellowships awarded by the Kennedy Institute for Information Technology at Rice.
Professor Marek Kimmel was one of the six faculty members awarded grants by the Simmons Foundation for collaborative research with physicians and scientists at Texas Children's Hospital and Houston Methodist Research Institute.
Assistant Professor Genevera Allen has won an NSF CAREER Award to develop new methods of dealing with big data "common in genomics and neuroimaging, and . . . useful for identifying potential genomic drug targets, for modeling genetic networks and brain networks, and for brain decoding from neuroimaging and neural recordings.”
