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A Message from CISE Leadership
On June 21, as part of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the US, our NSF building in Alexandria, Virginia was the venue for a conversation between Prime Minister Modi and US First Lady Dr. Jill Biden on technology, education, and workforce. It was exciting for me to be present for this visit, which allowed NSF to showcase how our efforts are catalyzing research opportunities and career pathways for the next generation of scientists and innovators.
Please also note NSF's current US-India funding opportunity, which supports collaborative research involving US-based and India-based researchers on all aspects of computing, communications, and information science and engineering, advanced cyberinfrastructure, secure and trustworthy computing, and cyber-physical systems. You can learn more by joining the next informational webinar on July 11.
A second important item of note is the National AI Strategy. First, the US recently released the 2023 update to the National AI R&D Strategy (first released in 2016, and later updated in 2019). Second, this document will now feed into a larger and broader process towards an overall National AI Strategy. This broader strategy document will consider AI's impacts on many aspects of government and society, beyond the R&D focus. If you would like to offer input towards the strategy, please respond to the Request for Information (RFI) by July 7.
Finally, I was pleased to participate as a plenary speaker in this year’s ACM Federated Computing Research Conference (FCRC). Held every four years, ACM FCRC brought together over 2500 researchers via co-locating over a dozen different ACM research conferences. My presentation focused on how working together across traditional topical boundaries will be key to progress on societal challenges. Entitled “Taking on the World’s Challenges: The Role of Computing Research and Innovation”, the talk recording is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS9Xk0nTW04, minute seven. Please take a look and let me know what you think!
Margaret Martonosi
NSF Assistant Director for CISE
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Researchers funded in part by the NSF create a new simulation tool for robots to manipulate complex fluids in a step toward helping them more effortlessly assist with daily tasks.
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NSFWashington University in St. Louis aims to develop data-efficient machine learning methods that can create safe and verified controllers that allow autonomous robots to satisfy complex mission and safety requirements.
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A team of researchers funded in part by the NSF found that worldwide protected forests have an additional 9.65 billion metric tons of carbon stored in their aboveground biomass—a finding that quantifies the importance of climate mitigation efforts.
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t Penn State funded in part by NSF have developed OmniRing, a smart sensing ring that uses photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors to collect and analyze healthcare metrics like heart rate, glucose levels and oxygen levels.
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A team of researchers funded in part by the NSF is using optical hardware to realize cellular automata for photonic computing, allowing operations up to three orders of magnitude quicker than the fastest digital computers.
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June 29, 2023. 1-2 p.m. (ET)
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Timothy M. Pinkston, Ph.D., is a highly esteemed professor of electrical and computer engineering, and vice dean (for faculty affairs) in the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC). With a passion for advancing technology and inspiring future engineers, he has made significant contributions to the field of electrical and computer engineering through extensive research, academic leadership, and mentorship.
Throughout his career, Pinkston has received multiple NSF grants, including an NSF CAREER Award to advance state-of-the-art solutions in interconnection network design, a High-Performance Computing and Communications award to improve network data throughput and latency, and a Software & Hardware Foundations award to develop cross-cutting approaches and techniques to enable energy and performance efficient on-chip network (NoC) designs for chip multiprocessors (CMPs).
He heads the SMART Interconnects Group at USC, which engages in research on advanced technologies and techniques for achieving high-performance communication in parallel computer systems, and efficient network interface and routing architectures. With over 100 peer-reviewed technical publications, he has made key research contributions to deadlock-free adaptive routing, router microarchitecture, and interconnection networks (both distributed and on-chip networks) that achieve high-performance and energy-efficient data movement in multicore and multiprocessor computer systems--from embedded processors to compute servers to large-scale datacenters.
“NSF funding has been instrumental in advancing my career and pushing the boundaries of knowledge and discovery in my field. The NSF grants I have received provided the essential resources and support needed to undertake ambitious research projects that enabled me to develop groundbreaking approaches and solutions to important computing and communication challenges,” Pinkston said.
From 2005 to 2008, Pinkston served as a program director for CISE and was the inaugural lead program director of CISE’s Expeditions in Computing program at its inception. He is a member of the CISE Advisory Committee (May 2021 to present), and has been CISE’s liaison to CEOSE since February 2022.
Pinkston co-organizes the national Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in Information Technology’s (CMD-IT) annual academic careers mentoring workshop, and engages in many other efforts to broaden the participation and development of persons from populations currently underrepresented in computing and engineering. Dr. Pinkston is an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow, ACM Fellow, and IEEE Fellow.
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