2023
Ashok Veeraraghavan was awarded the Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Engineering from the Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science and Technology (TAMEST) in recognition of his group’s revolutionary imaging technology that seeks to make the invisible visible.
Brandon Y Feng, Haiyun Guo, Mingyang Xie, Vivek Boominathan, Manoj K Sharma, Ashok Veeraraghavan, and Christopher A Metzler received the best poster award for NeuWS: Neural wavefront shaping for guidestar-free imaging through static and dynamic scattering media at IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), 2023.
Vishwanath Saragadam received Outstanding Postdoctoral Research award.
Matt Cheung received Graduate Student Distinguished Mentoring Fellowship.
Matt Cheung received the PATHS-UP Student Seed Fund for “Wearables for all body types”.
Matt Cheung was appointed to the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Training Program in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science.
Haoran, Cheng, Yang, Zhongzhi, Yonggan, Shunyao, Jiayi, Shang, Yongan, Chaojian, Vivek, Ashok, Ziyun and Yingyan’s” paper EyeCoD: Eye Tracking System Acceleration via FlatCam-based Algorithm & Accelerator Co-Design” selected as a 2023 IEEE Micro Top Pick.
2022
Bhargav Ghanekar, Vishwanath Saragadam, Dushyant Mehra, Anna-Karin Gustavsson, Aswin Sankaranarayanan, Ashok Veeraraghavan’s paper “PS2F: Polarized Spiral PSF for single-shot 3D sensing” awarded the Best Paper Award at IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), 2022.
Yang Zhao, Ziyun Li, Yonggan Fu, Yongan Zhang, Chaojian Li, Cheng Wan, Haoran You, Shang Wu, Xu Ouyang, Vivek Boominathan, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Yingyan Lin’s demo “i-FlatCam: A 253 FPS, 91.49 μJ/Frame Ultra-Compact Intelligent Lensless Camera for Real-Time and Efficient Eye Tracking in VR/AR” was awarded first place for University Demo Best Demonstration at the 59th Design Automation Conference, 2022
Ewa Nowara featured as a “Woman in Computer Vision” in the Computer Vision news magazine RSIP Vision.
2021
Ashok Veeraraghavan named IEEE Fellow for his contributions to computational photography and computer vision.
Yongyi Zhao, Ankit Raghuram, Hyun Kim, Andreas Hielscher, Jacob Robinson, and Ashok Veeraraghavan’s paper “High Resolution, Deep Imaging Using Confocal Time-of-flight Diffuse Optical Tomography” was the Runner-up for Best Paper Award at IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), 2021.
Joshua Zhao awarded the Robertson-Finley Applied Physics Travel Award.
Dong Yan awarded the Smalley-Curl Innovative Research Graduate Fellowship.
2020
Yongyi Zhao awarded a one-year predoctoral fellowship by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Training Program in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science.
Akshat Dave, Muralidhar Balaji, Prasanna Rangarajan and Ashok Veeraraghavan’s paper “Foveated Non-line-of-sight imaging” awarded the 2020 OSA Imaging and Applied Optics Congress Student Paper Prize.
Jasper Tan awarded the Rice D2K Graduate Fellowship for Spring 2020.
Souptik Barua awarded the Rice D2K Postdoctoral Fellowship for Spring 2020.
2019
Souptik Barua awarded 2019 NSF PATHS-UP seed grant for research in ‘A computational framework to discover temporal biomarkers from continuous glucose monitoring data in an underserved Type-2 diabetes cohort’.
Adithya Pediredla received the 2019 Ralph Budd Award for the best Ph.D. dissertation in the School of Engineering.
Yicheng Wu, Vivek Boominathan, Huaijin Chen, Aswin Sankaranarayanan, and Ashok Veeraraghavan received the best poster award for “PhaseCam3D—Learning Phase Masks for Passive Single View Depth Estimation.” at IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), 2019
Ewa Nowara received the Best poster/demo award at the Rice ECE Corporate Affiliates Day 2019.
2018
Vivek Boominathan received the Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering Travel award.
Yicheng Wu received Robertson Finley Travel Award (9/2018) and the 2018/2019 Oil & Gas HPC Conference Graduate fellowship (10/2018).
Xu Chen and Leo Meister received the best abstract award for Family Level Assessment of Screen use in the Home (FLASH): Development of an automatic and objective assessment of children’s screen use across platforms,” in Digital Media and Developing Minds Congress Conference 2018.
Souptik Barua was chosen as one of 13 students worldwide to present my research at the 1st PhD summit organized by EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. The theme of the summit was ‘Data-driven Life sciences’ (November 2018).
2017
Akshat Dave received the Texas Instruments Fellowship.
Ankit Raghuram received the Neuroengineering IGERT: From cells to Systems training fellowship (August 2017).
Ewa Nowara received the Ken Kennedy Institute Technology 2017/2018 Schlumberger Graduate Fellowship.
Chris Metzler, Sudarshan Nagesh, Manoj Sharma, Richard Baraniuk and Ashok Veeraraghavan received the Best Paper Award Honorable Mention at ICCP 2017 for “Coherent inverse scattering via transmission matrices: Efficient phase retrieval algorithms and a public dataset.”
Ashok Veeraraghavan received the National Sciences Foundation (NSF) CAREER award.
Jason Holloway received the 2017 Ralph Budd Award for the best Ph.D. dissertation in the School of Engineering.
Mayank Kumar, Ashok Veeraraghavan, and Ashutosh Sabharwal received the Hershel M. Rich Invention Award award for their work on “CameraVitals: Non-contact Clinical-grade Vital Signs Using Cameras”
Mayank Kumar received the 2017 Best Graduate Poster Award presented at ECE Corporate Affiliates Day
Ashok Veeraraghavan, Ashutosh Sabharwal and Dr. James Suliburk received the 2017 Hamill Innovation Award for their work on “PulseCam: Design, Development and Validation of Continuous Hemodynamic Imaging for Intensive Care Units.”
2016
Vivek Boominathan and Jesse Adams received the best demo award at the Rice ECE Corporate Affiliates Day 2019.
Huajin (George) Chen gave CVPR 2016 Oral (ASP Vision: Optically Computing the First Layer of Convolutional Neural Networks using Angle Sensitive Pixels, Huaijin Chen, Suren Jayasuriya, Jiyue Yang, Judy Stephen, Sriram Sivaramakrishnan, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Alyosha Molnar).
M. Salman Asif, Ali Ayremlou, Aswin Sankaranarayanan, Ashok Veeraraghavan, and Richard Baraniuk received the Hershel M. Rich Invention Award award for their work on “Thin, bare-sensor cameras using coded aperture and computation”
2015
Jasper Tan received the Ken Kennedy Enhancement Fellowship (2015) and Texas Instruments Fellowship (2015).
Ewa Nowara received the Texas Instruments Fellowship.
<2015
Huajin (George) Chen received the Texas Instruments Distinguished Graduate Student Scholarship.