# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lydia-e-kavraki
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:09:38.071Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lydia-e-kavraki"
name: "Lydia E. Kavraki"
slug: "lydia-e-kavraki"
description: "Lydia E. Kavraki is a Greek-American computer scientist, the Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science, a professor of bioengineering, electrical and computer engineering, and mechanical engineering at Rice University. She is also the director of the Ken Kennedy Institute at Rice University. She is known for her work on robotics/AI and bioinformatics/computational biology and in particular for the probabilistic roadmap method for robot motion planning and biomolecular configuration analysis."
tagline: "Greek computer scientist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1967"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.52
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.341721333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.kavrakilab.org/"
sources:
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    title: "Кавраки, Лидия"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A"
    title: "ليديا كافراكي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%89"
    title: "ليديا كافراكى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Kavraki"
    title: "Lydia Kavraki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9B%CF%85%CE%B4%CE%AF%CE%B1_%CE%9A%CE%B1%CE%B2%CF%81%CE%AC%CE%BA%CE%B7"
    title: "Λυδία Καβράκη"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Kavraki"
    title: "Lydia Kavraki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Kavraki"
    title: "Lydia Kavraki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11749"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump