The following is a letter to the community from Erwin Gianchandani, Acting Assistant Director, of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE).
Dear Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Community,
I am delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Gurdip Singh as the division director (DD) for the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS), effective March 2, 2020.
Gurdip will be joining NSF/CISE from Syracuse University, where he is currently Professor of Computer Science and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs. Prior to joining the Syracuse faculty in 2016, he served as a program director in CNS in 2014-2016, supporting the Cyber-Physical Systems, Computer Systems Research, and Critical Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Systems and Processes programs, among others. He was previously on the faculty of the Kansas State University’s Department of Computing and Information Sciences, where he also served as Department Head from 2009 to 2014.
Gurdip is an accomplished scholar in distributed and embedded systems, including synchronization synthesis, network protocols, compositional design and analysis techniques, and configurable middleware systems. He has over 90 peer-reviewed conference proceedings and publications.
He has received a number of awards for his research and teaching. For example, he earned the College of Engineering Frankenhoff Outstanding Research Excellence Award and Graduate Teaching Award while at Kansas State. He is also a past recipient of a NSF CAREER award and a NSF Research Initiation Award.
Gurdip serves on the editorial board for multiple journals and has served as a co-organizer or program chair for several conferences, workshops, and symposia. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the American Society for Engineering Education’s Engineering Research Council.
He received a B.Tech. in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, and M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
I also want to take this opportunity to thank Dr. Ken Calvert for his outstanding service as CNS DD since May 2016. Ken has led several important activities while at NSF, such as a reformulation of CNS’s core programs, an evolution of the CISE Community Research Infrastructure program, the launch of a new Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) pilot, and the formulation of the agency’s strategy for public and private partnerships. He will conclude his rotation at the end of December 2019 and return to the University of Kentucky where he is Professor of Computer Science.
Please join me in congratulating Gurdip and thanking Ken for all his contributions to CNS, CISE, and NSF!
Erwin
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Erwin Gianchandani, Ph.D.
Acting Assistant Director (AD) of NSF for CISE