Lydia Kavraki#
| Membership Number: | 5419 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.kavrakilab.org |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-0699-8038 |
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
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computational Biomedicine
- Robotics
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
