Lydia Kavraki

Name: Lydia E. Kavraki

Born: Unknown

Computer-related contributions

• Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science.
• Professor of bioengineering at Rice University.
• Professor of structural and computational biology and molecular biophysics at Baylor College of Medicine.
• Known for her work on motion planning and bioinformatics, and in particular for the probabilistic road map method for robot motion planning and biomolecular configuration analysis.

Significant publications

• Principles of Robot Motion: Theory, Algorithms, and Implementations (2005).
• Robotics: The Algorithmic Perspective (1998).

Honors and awards

• Technology Review annual list of 35 innovators under the age of 35 (2010).
• Popular Science magazine "Brilliant 10" awards (2002).
• Grace Murray Hopper Award (2000).