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A Message from CISE Leadership
Welcome to the vibrancy of Autumn and a new school year! It is my pleasure to share exciting news about the remarkably successful events we recently held with the National AI Research Institutes – or AI Institutes – at our headquarters and on Capitol Hill.
On September 18, we hosted an AI Institutes interactive showcase at our Alexandria building. During the event, we heard from leadership across NSF on the importance the institutes play in inspiring AI progress and developing the next generation of talent driving the future of AI research. Next, the investigators from all 25 institutes highlighted their research and engaged with staff from NSF and other partners. On September 19, we hosted an interactive showcase on Capitol Hill to enable congressional staff to learn more about the amazing research and technologies that are being developed at these AI Institutes.
I would like to extend my deepest gratitude to all the investigators and collaborators of these AI Institutes who took time out of their busy schedules to make these events a tremendous success. We at NSF work hard to surface the societally beneficial long-term impacts from NSF-funded research. Our AI Institutes events are one example of this, and we welcome many more. Please reach out to us if you have ideas for "highlights stories" coming from NSF CISE investments.
We hope you enjoy our September newsletter, and please continue to share it with your colleagues and networks.
Respectfully,
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Margaret Martonosi
NSF Assistant Director for CISE
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Funding Opportunities and Deadlines
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National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes.
Supports the development of new AI Institutes that focus on one of the following themes: astronomical sciences, materials research, and new methods for strengthening AI.
Preliminary proposal deadlines:
October 31, 2023, and January 12, 2024.
Full proposal deadlines:
February 16, 2024 (Group 1 themes) and May 17, 2024 (Group 2 themes).
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Focuses on semiconductor, next generation communication systems, cyber-security, sustainability and green technologies, and intelligent transportation systems.
Target date:
January 5, 2024.
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News & Announcements
NSF hosted a congressional showcase of the 25 National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes on Capitol Hill. Over 200 Hill attendees got to hear from the AI Institutes directors on the technology and efforts surrounding AI innovation and workforce development.
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NSF is investing in programs that help community-university partnerships combat climate change and improve access to essential resources and services.
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Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) Project Office announces the unveiling of ARA, a new testbed in Central Iowa dedicated to research on rural wireless systems and applications.
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NSF-funded researchers at Florida Atlantic University developed a robotic hand exoskeleton that uses artificial intelligence to improve hand dexterity.
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Neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center are making advances in our understanding of the brain through NSF-supported ACCESS advanced computing program.
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Eighteen research teams win funding from NSF to pursue new sensor technologies that can control quantum phenomena to precisely measure the previously unmeasurable.
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Events
NSF-NIH Smart Health Solicitation Webinar.
Join NSF program directors to learn more about the Smart Health and Biomedical Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Data Science (SCH) program.
October 5, 2023. 2-3:30 pm (ET).
ExpandAI Virtual Office Hours.
Join NSF program directors representing different categories of Minority Serving Institutions to learn more about the ExpandAI program.
October 16, 2023. 3-4 pm (ET).
CSSI (NSF 22-632) Program Webinar.
Join NSF program officers to learn more about the Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) program.
October 19, 2023. 1-2:30 pm (ET).
AI Institutes Exposition & Engagement Showcase.
Join the National AI Research Institutes to learn about their cutting-edge work taking place in multiple fields and gain an understanding of how AI is transforming and improving the world.
October 26, 2023. 10 am-3:30 pm.
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Yejin Choi is Wissner-Slivka Professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington and also a senior director at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. She is an accomplished researcher in the fields of natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence-based systems. Her research interests include language grounding with vision, physical and social commonsense knowledge, language generation with long-term coherence, conversational AI, and AI for social good. Recently named as TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in AI, Choi has garnered several recognitions for her groundbreaking research and contributions.
One of Choi's greatest accomplishments is her visionary research in improving the ability of computers to extract and understand implied meaning in human language. She has pioneered the combining of visual and textual inputs to improve context-based language interpretation in automatic systems. She has designed models that use both textual descriptions and images of objects to reinforce one another, in a manner similar to the way humans acquire knowledge about the world. Her contributions have not only improved the performance of AI systems but have also enhanced their ability to understand and interact with human language, making them more accessible and effective.
In addition to AI systems performance, Choi focuses on AI-based solutions that are trustworthy and benefit society. For example, she and her colleagues designed a method to automate detection of fake online consumer reviews. Choi extended this work to include assessing news factuality and categorizing news articles based on intent to deceive end users.
Choi has received several NSF awards, including an NSF Robust Intelligence (RI) award to develop new algorithms to help detect and reduce biases in human-authored and machine-generated text.
“With funding from the NSF I have been able to further advance innovative solutions that I hope continue to shape how we design and transform AI that is good for all. This support is not just an investment in my work. It is an investment in the future of AI and the next generation of talent behind it.”
Choi earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University and subsequently held an academic position at SUNY Stony Brook before joining the University of Washington. She has published in a variety of leading journals and conference proceedings, including Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, and IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.
She has received multiple recognitions including Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute for Ethics in AI at Oxford (2023); Wissner-Slivka Chair (2023 - current); MacArthur Fellow (2022); ACL Fellow (2022); Brett Helsel Career Development Professorship (2020 - 2023) and IEEE AI's 10 to Watch (2016).
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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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