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Energy Transition: Paving the Way to a Sustainable Future
Rice University's role in positioning Houston as the leading hub of energy and clean tech innovation is key and researchers at the university have been hard at work tackling the many challenges a widespread energy transition presents.
Rice University is one of the nation’s leading research universities. With just over 7,500 undergraduate and graduate students, Rice produces $181 million in sponsored projects annually. These projects span a broad spectrum of academic areas and work toward solving pressing problems across the globe.
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Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Yingyan Lin won a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award to make deep learning hardware accelerators more efficient and its development faster. CAREER Awards, among the most competitive offered by the NSF, are typically given to fewer than 400 young scientists and engineers each year.