Rice Engineering and Computing

Rice researcher Alexander Davydov is helping advance safer and more intelligent self-driving technologies.

Davydov, Rice University Mechanical Engineering assistant professor, received the IEEE RA-L Best Paper Award Honorable Mention for his research at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation earlier this month.

Co-authored with Toyota Research Institute collaborators, the paper explores how autonomous vehicles can better respond in unpredictable or extreme driving conditions. Congratulations to Professor Davydov on this achievement.

Davydov receives IEEE RA-L Best Paper Award Honorable Mention | George R. Brown School of Engineering | Rice University Alexander Davydov, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, received an Honorable Mention for the 2025 IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) Best Paper Award for his paper, “First, Learn What You Don't Know: Active Information Gathering for ...