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First place Topcoder hackathon team includes two from Rice Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2019
Yinsen Miao and Yizhou Xia, both fifth-year doctoral students in statistics, part of winning trio.

Michael Weylandt named as Future Faculty Fellow Friday, Nov. 15, 2019
New Rice Engineering program supports Ph.D. and postdoctoral students interested in pursuing academic careers.

Student-founded blockchain company raises $1 million Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019
Topl, co-founded in 2017 by Ph.D. candidate Kim Raath, aims to ensure transparency for businesses.

Doctoral student chosen for National Library of Medicine Fellowship Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019
Emily Wang's research focuses on Bayesian hidden Markov models for assessing seizure risk in patients with epilepsy.

How Rice prepared this data scientist for Silicon Valley Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019
Jessica Gan '14, 15 uses her professional master's degree in statistics to improve the accuracy of Google Maps.