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A Message from CISE Leadership
I am thrilled to share with you my first newsletter as CISE’s assistant director. It is a privilege to serve this remarkable community, and I look forward to collaborating with all of you to continue developing the talent, science, innovation and infrastructure that fortify our nation's leadership in computing and information science and engineering.
To begin, I would like to summarize our recent Spring Advisory Committee (AC) meeting. We were pleased to welcome a new member, Scott Acton, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Virginia (UVA) and chair of UVA’s Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Please join me in welcoming Scott to our CISE AC team.
I would like to thank departing AC members Terry Benzel, director of the Networking and Cybersecurity Division at the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute; Carla Gomes, Ronald C. and Antonia V. Nielsen professor of computing and information science at Cornell University; and Muriel Médard, Cecil H. Green professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for their years of dedicated service to the CISE AC.
CISE AC co-chair Enrico Pontelli led a discussion on the re-examination of the CISE AC Broadening Participation in Computing Strategic Plan, initially drafted by the CISE AC in 2012. Another ongoing effort by the CISE AC focuses on the relationship between computing and sustainability. Roch Guerin, CISE AC co-chair Klara Nahrstedt, and Amy McGovern presented the findings from the NSF Workshop on Sustainable Computing for Sustainability, which engaged members of the community in exploring the dual themes of “Sustainable Computing” and “Computing for Sustainability”, and how to build and sustain the type of interdisciplinary teams required to successfully tackle these challenges. Finally, we had a discussion on current opportunities and challenges facing the CISE community.
Congratulations to all the awarded teams!
Thank you for your continued dedication and support. I look forward to our ongoing collaboration.
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Greg Hager
Assistant Director for CISE
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Funding Opportunities and Deadlines
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 NAIRR Pilot opportunity for researchers and educators open.
Researchers and educators can access online interactive notebooks to use in classrooms or student projects, as well as an array of resources supported by the government and private sectors.
Proposals will be reviewed on an ongoing monthly cycle.
Requests submitted by the 15th of the month will be reviewed and their outcome decided by the end of the month.
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News & Announcements
NSF announced new ExpandAI awards dedicated to fostering diversity and inclusion within the artificial intelligence research community.
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Chandi Witharana from the University of Connecticut’s Department of Natural Resources and the Environment will receive support through the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Pilot to conduct research on remote sensing on Arctic permafrost thaw.
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Heather Masson-Forsythe, an AAAS Science & Technology Fellow in CISE, hosts a future-forward episode on quantum science.
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Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, Alan T. Waterman awardee and associate professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at Yale University, discusses her work on soft robotics.
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The National Center for Supercomputing Applications was recently awarded $4.9 million of supplemental funding from NSF for Delta and an additional $4.9 million for DeltaAI to expand the potential capabilities of the soon-to-launch system by nearly 50 percent.
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NSF-funded researchers have collected and analyzed an unprecedented amount of data on SMS phishing attacks, shedding light on both the scope and nature of short messaging service (SMS) phishing operations.
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Samee U. Khan, Ph.D., serves as department head and is the James W. Bagley Chair Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Mississippi State University (MSU). He has dedicated his career to advancing our understanding of computer systems. With research interests spanning robustness, optimization, and security, Khan has become a leading figure in energy-efficient computing, optimization techniques, and resource management in distributed systems. His current work explores how to effectively utilize quantum computing for myriad applications, a testament to his innovative and forward-thinking approach.
Throughout his career, Khan has received several NSF grants, including a recent Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) award to establish the Intelligent Edge Computing Systems REU site at MSU. This project enhances research capabilities in edge computing, embedded systems, 5G communications, and federated machine learning for students, particularly from minority-serving institutions. He is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive research community.
Through a CISE core award, he continues exploring resource management in large-scale distributed systems, using a pool of lightweight, approximately accurate online learning models instead of fully accurate and computationally complex strategies to improve the utilization of large-scale data centers and high-performance computing systems. To support an effort to understand the mathematical underpinnings of forecasting computer system utilization and developing schedulers that are agnostic of system perturbations, he received an EAGER grant.
“The NSF’s support has been crucial to my understanding of computer systems at scale. Without this support, none of the advancements would have been possible. The opportunities provided for graduate and undergraduate students to explore their curiosity are simply unparalleled. The NSF’s support not only advances knowledge, but it also changes lives—both our own and those around us.”
Khan is active in community engagement. Last March, he organized a quantum computing, information, science, and engineering workshop at NSF for quantum researchers from EPSCoR jurisdictions. The workshop was attended by over 70 representatives from academia, industries, funding agencies, and national laboratories. The workshop report prepared by the participants aims to facilitate discussions across the board. This effort was supported by an NSF grant. Over the years, he has served the community in various roles on conference committees and journal editorial boards.
Khan’s excellence in his research has not gone unnoticed. He is a fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the British Computer Society, a distinguished member of the Association for Computing Machinery, and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. His contributions to the field include over 475 publications, including nine books and four best paper awards, and his work has been cited more than 25,000 times.
Khan and his team have developed several software simulators (xFogSim; FogNetSim++; CloudNetSim++; GreenCloud; and NutShell) for computer systems, some of the research community’s widely used artifacts. The most popular is GreenCloud, a sophisticated packet-level simulator for energy-aware cloud computing data centers focusing on cloud communications.
Khan attributes his success to the outstanding efforts of his graduate students, who pushed the limits of knowledge and, as a result, made him a better person. He currently advises four doctoral and three M.S. students and has previously guided two postdoctoral fellows, 16 Ph.D. graduates, and 10 master’s graduates.
Khan received his doctoral degree in computer science from The University of Texas at Arlington. From 2016 to 2020, he was the program lead for Computer Systems Research at NSF and the Walter B. Booth Professor at North Dakota State University, where he started his career in 2008.
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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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