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A Message from CISE Leadership
It has been a very exciting couple of weeks for all of us at CISE and for our research community.
On May 4, we were part of a major White House announcement on Artificial Intelligence that included our $140 million investment to establish seven new National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes (AI Institutes). This joint initiative with federal and industry funding partners represents a major effort to advance foundational research as well as the development of AI solutions that are responsible and serve the public good. Together with the 2020 and 2021 cohorts, the AI Institutes represent the largest investment on foundational and use-inspired AI research from the federal government, with a total investment of $500 billion and a network of over 500 funded and collaborative institutions across the U.S. and around the world.
On a different note, I want to remind you that the deadline for the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Graduate Fellowships (CSGrad4US) program is fast approaching: June 5, 2023. CSGRAD4US offers one year of pre-application mentoring and three years of fellowship support for early-career individuals seeking research-based doctoral degrees in CISE disciplines. It is one of CISE’s critical programs to increase the number and diversity of US Citizen and permanent resident doctoral students in our fields. Please share this opportunity with eligible candidates who are at the bachelors or master's level, but not currently enrolled in a degree program. Please encourage them to apply!
Last but not least, I want to remind you that CISE's Spring Advisory Committee meeting will be held on Thursday, June 8, 2023, from 12 p.m. to 6:00 pm; and Friday, June 9, 2023, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Eastern Time. The meeting agenda will be uploaded to the page soon. We hope to see you then!
We hope you enjoy this newsletter and please continue to share it with your colleagues.
Margaret Martonosi
NSF Assistant Director for CISE
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News & Announcements
NSF-supported researchers at the University of California, Riverside, and Yale University seek to contribute to the development of effective therapies for treating and managing human babesiosis.
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Augusta University’s Clément Aubert, Ph.D., has received a CISE grant for his proposal that “intends to provide tools to verify the correctness of tomorrow’s computers and programs.”
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A team of NSF-funded researchers at the University of Oklahoma is working on using machine learning to develop software that would provide hailstorm warnings 30 or more minutes in advance, rather than the current 10 to 12 minutes.
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NSF announces $16.1 million investment to support shared research infrastructure that provides artificial intelligence researchers and students across the nation with access to transformative resources.
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The U.S. National Science Foundation announced the first-ever NSF Regional Innovation Engines, or NSF Engines, program awards to 44 unique teams spanning universities, nonprofits, businesses and other organizations across the U.S. states and territories.
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The NSF-supported Expanding Computing Education Pathways (ECEP) Alliance is pleased to announce the acceptance of seven new member states: Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
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Announces the availability of high-quality commercial Earth observation data to NSF-funded researchers at no additional cost.
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The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) requests input from the research community on the development of a Research Security and Integrity Information Sharing Analysis Organization (RSI-ISAO).
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Events
CISE Advisory Committee Meeting - Spring 2023:
June 8, 2023, 12:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. (ET). June 9, 2023, 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (ET).
ExpandAI Virtual Office Hours:
June 20, 2023, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. (ET)
2023 Research Infrastructure Workshop:
June 27 - 30, 2023. Washington Marriott at Metro Center, Washington, D.C.
CISE Research Initiation Initiative Webinar:
July 20, 2023, 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. (ET).
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Indrakshi Ray is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at Colorado State University where she leads the Cybersecurity Center. She has been a visiting faculty at Air Force Research Laboratory, Naval Research Laboratory, and INRIA in Rocquencourt, France. Her research focuses on information systems security, cyber physical systems security, and cognitive aspects of cybersecurity.
Ray has received several NSF awards, including Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) and Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers (IUCRC) programs awards.The SaTC grant supported her work on heavy vehicles (e.g., trucks and buses) security. Almost all aspects of heavy vehicles are controlled by embedded computers known as Electronic Control Units (ECUs). ECUs communicate with each other over the Controller Area Network (CAN). To ensure interoperability among components manufactured by different Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), heavy vehicles use a higher layer standardized protocol J1939 that runs over the CAN.
Ray's students demonstrated how the J1939 protocol can be compromised at the 2022 CyberTruck Challenge. Ray's group is now investigating how deep-learning and transformer models can be used for anomaly detection and predictive analytics in heavy vehicles. Predictive analytics can be used to re-create an approximate value if a sensor is down or has been compromised.
The NSF IUCRC grant supported Ray’s work on building ties with industry, federal laboratories, and academia, enabling the exploration of new domains, which otherwise may not have been possible. Through this grant, Ray was able to establish an Internet of Things (IoT) laboratory to study security and privacy of IoT applications, devices, and networks.
“NSF funding has helped our group venture into new interdisciplinary areas of research. This has expanded my horizon and given me the opportunity to work with students having diverse backgrounds and skills,” Ray said.
Ray is also interested in the cognitive aspects of cybersecurity. Her work on phishing and misinformation detection have received special recognitions. Ray is also exploring how cognitive biases impact cyber-related decision making. With support from NSF’s Research Experiences for Undergraduates program, Ray mentors a diverse group of students, including first generation and special needs students.
Ray received her Ph.D. in Information Technology from George Mason University.
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Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS)
Supports research and education on the interrelated roles of people, computers, and information to advance knowledge of artificial intelligence, data management, assistive technologies, and human-centered computing.
Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC)
Supports the conceptualization, design, implementation, and operation of research cyberinfrastructure to advance and transform research and education in science and engineering.
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