Computer and Information Sciences at Rice University

16 faculty and 40 courses in Computer and Information Sciences at Rice University.

Faculty

• Ken Chen, Adjunct Assistant Professor h-index 103
  Notable: “The Immune Landscape of Cancer” (2018) · 6,197 citations
• Keith D. Cooper, L. John and Ann H. Doerr Professor h-index 45
  Notable: “Improvements to graph coloring register allocation” (1994) · 387 citations
• Xiaoyun Fu, Lecturer h-index 41
  Notable: “Singlet oxygen-dominated activation of peroxymonosulfate by passion fruit shell derived biochar for catalytic degradation of tetracycline through a non-radical oxidation pathway” (2021) · 398 citations
• Alan L. Cox, Associate Chair, Professor h-index 30
  Notable: “TreadMarks: shared memory computing on networks of workstations” (1996) · 834 citations
• Ronald N. Goldman, Professor h-index 25
  Notable: “Curvature formulas for implicit curves and surfaces” (2005) · 442 citations
• Robert Cartwright, Professor in the Practice Emeritus h-index 25
  Ed on four topics: 1.) Developing extensions to Java, Scala, and Swift that foster developing parallel application programs that scale well as more cores are added to microprocessors. I am an ardent advocate of a "mostly functional" approach to developing para
  Notable: “Soft typing” (1991) · 302 citations
• Arko Barman, Associate Teaching Professor, D2K h-index 10
  Notable: “Machine Learning–Enabled Automated Determination of Acute Ischemic Core From Computed Tomography Angiography” (2019) · 107 citations
• Nai-Hui Chia, Assistant Professor h-index 10
  Notable: “Sampling-based sublinear low-rank matrix arithmetic framework for dequantizing Quantum machine learning” (2020) · 107 citations
• Mike Fagan, Lecturer in Computer Science; Research Scientist h-index 9
  Notable: “HPCTOOLKIT: tools for performance analysis of optimized parallel programs” (2009) · 611 citations
• John Greiner, Assistant Teaching Professor h-index 8
  Notable: “A provable time and space efficient implementation of NESL” (1996) · 141 citations
• Rodrigo Ferreira, Associate Teaching Professor h-index 3
  Notable: “Deep Tech Ethics: An Approach to Teaching Social Justice in Computer Science” (2021) · 43 citations
• Anjum Chida, Lecturer
• Hanjie Chen, Assistant Professor
• Luis F. Guzman Nateras, Lecturer
• Scott Cutler, Professor in the Practice Emeritus, Adjunct Lecturer
• Vladimir Braverman, Adjunct Professor

Courses

• AP/OTH CREDIT COMPUTER SCIENCE COMP 105
• COMPUTATIONAL THINKING COMP 140
• INTRODUCTION TO GAME PROGRAMMING IN PYTHON COMP 160
• INTRODUCTION TO GAME CONTENT CREATION COMP 162
• INTRODUCTION TO PROOF WRITING COMP 181
• ALGORITHMIC THINKING COMP 182
• INTRODUCTION TO PROGRAM DESIGN COMP 215
• INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER ORGANIZATION COMP 222
• SPECIAL TOPICS COMP 238
• COMPUTATIONAL OPTIMIZATION FOR AI COMP 282
• COMPUTER SCIENCE PROJECTS COMP 290
• COMPUTER ETHICS COMP 301
• ADVANCED OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING AND DESIGN COMP 310
• FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING COMP 311
• INTRODUCTION TO PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES COMP 312
• CONCURRENT PROGRAM DESIGN COMP 318
• INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER SYSTEMS COMP 321
• PRINCIPLES OF PARALLEL PROGRAMMING COMP 322
• DIGITAL LOGIC DESIGN COMP 326
• INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER SECURITY COMP 327
• SYSTEMS FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMP 329
• TOOLS AND MODELS FOR DATA SCIENCE COMP 330
• STATISTICAL MODELS AND ALGORITHMS FOR DATA SCIENCE COMP 340
• PRACTICAL MACHINE LEARNING FOR REAL WORLD APPLICATIONS COMP 341
• FOUNDATIONS OF MACHINE LEARNING COMP 345
• INTRODUCTION TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMP 346
• INTRODUCTION TO DEEP LEARNING COMP 348
• GEOMETRIC MODELING COMP 361
• REASONING ABOUT ALGORITHMS COMP 382
• PRODUCTION PROGRAMMING COMP 402
• SOFTWARE ENGINEERING METHODOLOGY COMP 410
• PRINCIPLES OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES COMP 411
• COMPILER CONSTRUCTION COMP 412
• VERIFIED PROGRAMMING COMP 408
• LOGIC AND COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMP 409
• PRACTICAL PROBLEM-SOLVING COMP 380
• REASONING AND SOFTWARE COMP 403
• ADVANCED TOPICS IN OBJECT-ORIENTED DESIGN COMP 405
• PEDAGOGICAL TOOL DESIGN COMP 364
• + 1 more courses

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.