Rice Undergraduate Research Mentors listing has information about faculty and research fellows at Rice University and beyond who have mentored Rice undergraduates. For students who presented a mentored project at the Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium, projects titles are listed so that you can see the types of projects undergraduates complete with these mentors. Mentor listings do not indicate a current opening for undergraduate researchers; please inquire about availability. Join our mentor database here.

Graduate Student (Faculty: Drs. George Lu and Richard Bouchard)

Associate Professor

Professor

Assistant Professor

Associate Professor of Accounting

Graduate student (Faculty Mentor: Jane Grande Allen)

Assistant Professor of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine

Lecturer

Assistant Professor

Lecturer

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor
Norman Hackerman-Welch Young Investigator

Director of Grants and Initiatives
Adjunct Lecturer

Graduate student (Faculty mentor: Sven Kranz)

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

Professor

Associate Professor and Director of Ethnography Studio

Foyt Family Professor of Bioengineering, Professor of Chemistry, CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research, Associate Dean of Research and Innovation

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Ralph and Dorothy Looney Professor of Biosciences

Assistant Professor of Bioengineering & BioSciences

Director of Houston Education Research Consortium

Teaching Professor of BioSciences

E. Dell Butcher Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Associate Professor

Assistant Professor

William M. McCardell Professor, Associate Department Chair, Director of Graduate Studies,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Cullen Professor of Medical Ethics, Center Associate Director

Professor

Associate Professor of Art

Professor

Assistant Professor

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering PhD candidate at Rice University

Assistant Professor
Boniuk Institute Faculty Fellow

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, Faculty Affiliate

Assistant Professor

Professor of Finance

Graduate Student

Graduate Student (Faculty: Dr. David Lipshutz)

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, Scientist, TIRR Memorial Hermann Neurorecovery Research Center

Graduate Student (Faculty: Hanjie Chen)

Assistant Professor

Postdoctoral Fellow, MAHI Lab

Associate Professor and Undergraduate Advisor

Assistant Professor

Graduate Student (Faculty: Dr. Joseph Young)

Professor

Graduate Student (Faculty: Dr. Kevin McHugh)

Graduate Student (Faculty: Dr. Ashok Veeraraghavan, Dr. Guha Balakrishnan)

Associate Professor

Department of Health Disparities Research, Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences

Professor

Postdoctoral Associate

Watt J. and Lilly G. Jackson Assistant Professor of Religion, Director of Undergraduate Studies for Department of Religion

Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Assistant Professor

Robert L. Moody, Sr. Professor, Mathematics

Ph.D, Research Scientist

Professor and Director of Research

Assistant Professor

Isla Carroll & Percy E. Turner Professor of Biblical Studies

Assistant Professor, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences

Graduate Student (Faculty: Dr. Hanjie Chen)

Director of Principles of Economics Program and Senior Lecturer

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

Associate Professor of Bioengineering & Chemistry, Director of Bioengineering Graduate Studies

Assistant Teaching Professor
Health Sciences Advisor

Associate Professor

Assistant Research Professor

Associate Professor of Economics

Associate Director of CLIC
Lecturer in Arabic

Associate Professor
Department Chair, Linguistics

Scholar in Science and Technology Policy

Assistant Professor of BioSciences

Graduate Student (Faculty: Dr. Scott Egan)

Associate Professor

Professor; Director of Clinical & Translational Research

Radoslav Tsanoff Chair
Professor Emeritus

Associate Professor

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, Director, Medical Student Education

Assistant Professor

Professor and Chair

Associate Professor

Professor and CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research
Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Bioengineering
College Magister, Brown College

T.N. Law Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Assistant Professor, BioEngineering

Assistant Professor of BioSciences
CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research

Lecturer in Management - Entrepreneurship

Graduate Student (Faculty: Xinwu Qian)

Professor

Herbert S. Autrey Chair

Assistant Professor in Environmental Engineering
Research Faculty, NSF NEWT Center

Professor

Professor, Bioengineering

Graduate Student (Faculty: Dr. Julea Vlassakis)

Professor

Professor of Composition and Theory

Isabel C. Cameron Professor of Bioengineering

Associate Professor

Senior Lecturer

Edwards Professor of Political Science

Associate Professor, UTH School of Dentistry
Adjunct Faculty, Rice Bioengineering, Biosciences

Professor of Chemistry and Bioengineering; Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies

Professor

Assistant Professor

Martha and Henry Malcolm Lovett Chair of Psychology

Noah G. Harding Chair and Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor and Chair of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Department

Assistant Professor

Professor and Department Chair of Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research

John and Ann Doerr Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Assistant Research Professor

Lecturer

Assistant Professor

Professor
Director of Graduate Studies

Associate Professor

Postdoctoral Fellow

Assistant Professor of Accounting

Assistant Professor

Principal Investigator; Associate Professor, Pathology

Welch Postdoctoral Fellow, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences

Graduate Student (Faculty: Drs. Camila Hochman-Mendez and Jane Grande-Allen)

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Lecturer

Joseph D. Jamail Chair in Latin American Studies

Gene and Norman Hackerman Junior Chair
Norman Hackerman-Welch Young Investigator
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and NanoEngineering

Assistant Professor of Management - Organizational Behavior

Sports Medicine Lecturer

Assistant Professor

Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science
Professor of Bioengineering, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Director, Ken Kennedy Institute

Assistant Professor

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Assistant Professor, Bioengineering

Associate Professor

Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Bioengineering

Dean of the Wiess School of Natural Sciences
Professor, Physics and Astronomy

Postdoctoral Fellow, MAHI Lab

Associate Professor

Assistant Professor

Lynette S. Autrey Professor of Psychology

Postdoctoral Research Associate and
Lab Manager at Kavraki Lab

Assistant Professor, CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research

Assistant Professor

Sheafor-Lindsay Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor, Computer Science

Associate Professor, Co-director of Gastrointestinal (GI) Radiation Oncology for the MD Anderson Cancer Network

Lecturer

Associate Professor of Strategic Management

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

Associate Professor
Chairman of the Undergraduate Committee

Dobelman Family Assistant Professor

Associate Professor of Biosciences

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Academic Institute Assistant Member, Research Institute

Professor

Graduate Student (Faculty: Dr. Nicole Provenza)

Noah Harding Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Assistant teaching Professor

Kenneth S. Pitzer-Schlumberger Chair
Professor of Chemistry, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Director, Center for Adapting Flaws into Features (CAFF)

Postdoctoral Associate

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, Marketing

Assistant Professor, CPRIT Scholar, Cancer Prevention Research Institute Of Texas

Assistant Professor, Vivian L. Smith Department Of Neurosurgery, UTHealth Medical School

Ph.D. in Social Psychology, University of Houston

Lecturer of Psychological Sciences, School of Social Sciences

Graduate Student (Faculty: Dr. Julea Vlassakis)

C.V. Starr Transnational China Fellow, Baker Institute for Public Policy
Professor in the Practice and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Transnational Asian Studies
Associate Director, Chao Center for Asian Studies

Noah Harding Assistant Professor

Associate Professor
Co-Chair for Graduate Admissions and Recruiting

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Co-Director, NEWT Center

Adjunct Associate Professor of Sociology
Quantitative Methodologist

Assistant Professor

Postdoctoral research Associate, Qilin Li Lab

Assistant Professor

Professor

Assistant Professor

Charles W. Duncan, Jr.-Welch Chair
Professor of Chemistry and Electrical & Computer Engineering

Assistant Professor

Associate Director, Community Engagement

Professor, Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Associate Department Chair

NEWT Associate Director of Education, Rice University at NEWT Engineering Research Center

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

Associate Professor of BioSciences

Assistant Professor
Kenneth S. Pitzer-Schlumberger Junior Faculty Chair
Norman Hackerman-Welch Young Investigator

Assistant Professor of Pediatric Immunology (in Pediatrics)

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

Nina J. Cullinan Professor of Art and Art History
Professor of Art History

William Marsh Rice Trustee Chair
Assistant Professor,Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Elma Schneider Professor of Psychology

GC Evans Instructor

Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Chemistry, and Biosciences

Assistant Professor

Fellow in Science and Technology Policy

Graduate student (Faculty mentor: Omid Veiseh)

Postdoctoral Associate

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor of Biosciences

Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Humanities
Professor of History
Chair, Department of History

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

Lecturer of Chemistry; Assistant Chair of Undergraduate Laboratories

Associate Professor and Vivian L. Smith Endowed Chair in Neuroscience

Louis Calder Professor of Bioengineering; Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and Chemistry

Associate Professor

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor of Bioengineering

Lecturer

Albert Thomas Professor of Political Science

Professor

Assistant Professor
Norman Hackerman-Welch Young Investigator
Kenneth S. Pitzer-Schlumberger Junior Faculty Chair

Assistant Research Professor of Bioengineering

Postoctoral Associate, Veiseh Lab, Bioengineering

Assistant Professor, Department of Cancer Systems Imaging, Division of Diagnostic Imaging

Lecturer, Humanities Computing Researcher/Facilitator, Center for Research Computing

Assistant Professor

Associate Professor

Professor of Computer Science and of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chair, CS Grad Committee

Graduate Student (former), Link Lab

Postdoctoral Associate

Assistant Professor

Rice Academy of Fellows

PhD student, Bioengineering, Bashor Lab

Associate Dean for Research and Innovation, George R. Brown School of Engineering
Thomas Michael Panos Family Professor in Mechanical Engineering

Chancellor, Molecular & Cell Biology, Associate Director of Basic Research, Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center

Assistant Research Professor of Computer Science

Postdoctoral Associate

Gladys Louise Professor of English | Chair, English Department | Director of Medical Humanities | Director, Medical Futures Lab | Adjunct Professor, The UT School of Public Health, Division of Health & Behavioral Sciences

Professor

Assistant Professor

Postdoctoral Associate, Tabor Lab

Postdoctoral Fellow, Scott E. Evans Laboratory

Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Hematology-Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine
Research Member, Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine
Faculty Member, Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine

Associate Teaching Professor

A. J. Hartsook Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering; Professor of Chemistry and MSNE

Assistant Professor

Graduate Student, Richards-Kortum Lab

Assistant Teaching Professor
Sports Medicine Advisor

Graduate Student (faculty: Dr. Momona Yamagami)

Assistant Professor

Associate Professor
Department of History

Ralph and Dorothy Looney Professor of Biochemistry & Cell Biology; Professor of Chemistry

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

Associate Professor of History
Director of Undergraduate Studies

Professor

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Professor

Lecturer in Finance

Assistant Professor

Graduate Student (Faculty: Dr. Haotian Wang)

Postdoctoral Fellow

Clinical Faculty
Summer Program Manager

Assistant Professor

Associate Professor

Associate Professor

Assistant Professor

Associate Professor And Bernice Weingarten Chair In Ophthalmology, Ruiz Department Of Ophthalmology & Visual Science

Associate director, CSWGS
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Noah Harding Chair and Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Assistant Professor

Senior Scientist and Director,
Behavioral Health & Performance Laboratory

Professor, Thomas J. Rosenbalm, M.D., Presidential Endowed Chair

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Professor

T.T. and W.F. Chao Professor of Asian Studies

Professor

Assistant Professor of Finance

Assistant Professor

Laboratory Manager

Assistant Professor

Postdoctoral Research Assoc.

Noah Harding Chair and Professor, Comp & Applied Mathematics; Professor, Computer Science

Graduate Student (Faculty: Dr. Omid Veiseh)

Program Manager for Fisheries Ecology & Enhancement

Assistant Teaching Professor

Professor of Business and Public Policy

W. M. Rice Trustee Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and BioSciences

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Bioengineering

Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
William Marsh Rice Trustee Chair

Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, McGovern School of Medicine University of Texas Health
Adjunct Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Rice University

Vice Provost for Research
Ralph and Dorothy Looney Professor of BioSciences

Postdoctoral researcher, Li Lab

Assistant Professor

Professor; Dunlevie Family Chair; Research Areas: US and the World, History of Modern International Relations, International Political Economy, Pacific World, Global History of Sports

Assistant Professor

Professor

Professor

Professor in the Practice, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Graduate Student, Richards-Kortum lab

Associate Teaching Professor

Baylor College of Medicine

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Lena Gohlman Fox Professor of Political Science

Member, St. Jude Faculty

Graduate Student (Faculty Mentor: Dr. Osama R. Mawlawi)

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor of Bioengineering

Associate Professor

Electrical Engineering PhD student

Assistant Professor

Postdoctoral Fellow, Nuo Li lab

Research Scientist

Professor

Associate Professor

T. T. and W. F. Chao Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Materials Science & NanoEngineering

Professor in the Practice

Lecturer, Research Associate

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Assistant Professor, CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research, Biosciences

Louis Owen Jr. Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Visiting Professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, MIPT

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research

Assistant Professor, Pediatrics and Rheumatology

Associate Professor, Biosciences

Research Scientist

Associate Professor Department of History

Assistant Professor, CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research, Biosciences

Assistant Professor in Creative Writing

Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery and Neuroscience

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Graduate Student (Faculty: Dr. Julia Saltz)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Graduate Student (Faculty: Dr. Pedro Alvarez)

John Antony Weir Professor; Research Areas: Modern Germany, European women and gender, Human rights, Modern colonialism

Lynette S. Autrey Chair in the Humanities, Professor, Photography

Professor

Distinguished Professor in the Practice, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biosciences

Professor of History
Associate Dean, Programs and Special Projects
School of Humanities

Assistant Professor, Neuroscience

Assistant teaching Professor

Research Professor

Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Molecular and Cellular Biology

Assistant Professor, Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, Pathology

Assistant Professor

James and Deborah T. Godwin Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Norman Hackerman-Welch Young Investigator

Graduate Student (Faculty mentor: Ashutosh Sabharwal)

Assistant Research Professor

Assistant Professor, Materials Science and NanoEngineering
William Marsh Rice Chair