CIFellows Mentor, Michael Carbin is holding a lecture on “Programming Uncertain Computations” as a part of the NSF CISE Distinguished Lecture Series. The lecture will take place online on March 23 from 11am-12:30pm ET. Carbin was a 2020 CIFellows Mentor to Yi Ding at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Talk Abstract: Computer systems must increasingly operate in the presence of uncertainty in their execution environment in that new applications and hardware platforms require our software systems to model and compute with objects that are inherently uncertain in that their behaviors are only given by noisy measurements. This reality presents many new questions about how to interpret, debug, validate, verify, and optimize these […]

The following is a guest post from CIFellow Richard Canevez. Canevez began his CIFellowship in 2020 after reciving his PhD from Pennsylvania State University. He is currently at the University of Hawaii at Manoa where he is mentored by Jenifer Sunrise Winter. When Computing Community Consortium (CCC) approached me to put together a blog post about the evolution of my research, I was excited for the opportunity, but also apprehensive about the topic. This is, on the one hand, writing about the research funded by CCC through the CIFellows program that I hope will serve as more than a mere status report and instead provide thoughts and guidance for future […]

CIFellow, Alexis E. Block began her CIFellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles in September 2021. Block is mentored by Veronica J. Santos, Director of the UCLA Biomechatronics Laboratory, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the school’s Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and Faculty Affairs. Prior to beginning her CIFellowship, she received her Dr. sc. from ETH Zurich where she was a part of a joint program called the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems. Block recently won the Otto Hahn Medal from Germany’s Max Planck Society for her dissertation work in human-robot interaction and the development of the “HuggieBot” which you can read about here. […]

On May 25, 2022, the CIFellows were given the opportunity to present their research to the community during a poster session at the NITRD 30th Anniversary Symposium. The poster session was a great way to celebrate early career researchers and demonstrate the impact of federal investments in computing research. Backed by funding from the National Science Foundation, the Computing Research Association (CRA) and the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) announced a Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) Program for 2020 and 2021. This program recognized the significant disruption to the academic job search caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and associated economic uncertainty and aimed to provide a career-enhancing bridge experience for new PhD graduates in computing. The CIFellows were invited to […]

Soheil Salehi began his CIFellowship in September 2020 after receiving her PhD from University of Central Florida in May 2020. Soheil is at University of California Davis working with Houman Homayoun, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California Davis.  The remainder of this post is written by Soheil Salehi Current Project My research focus is on applications of AI in secure Internet of Things (IoT) sensing and computing hardware. Currently, I am leading several projects on the topic of AI-enabled security for the IoT supply chain, which takes on a ground-up approach to ensure the reliability, security, and energy efficiency of the IoT hardware. Within this […]

This past spring, the Computing Research Association (CRA) and its Computing Community Consortium (CCC) announced funding for a cohort of Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) for 2021, with strong support from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The program sponsors two-year postdoctoral research positions in computing, as well as career development and cohort building activities, to provide a career-enhancing bridge experience for recent Ph.D. graduates. The program aims to address the continued disruption in hiring practices at academic institutions due to COVID-19. This effort was inspired by the CRA/CCC’s NSF-funded Computing Innovation Fellows Programs with cohorts starting 2009, 2010, and 2011, CRA’s Best Practices Memo on Computer Science Postdocs, and the Computing […]