Cyn Liu began her CIFellowship in January 2021 after receiving her PhD from Indiana University, Bloomington in Fall of 2020. Liu is at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) working with Paul Dourish, Chancellor’s Professor of Informatics at UCI and Director of the Steckler Center for Responsible, Ethical and Accessible Technology. Current Project Responding to climate change, environmental crisis, and the global pandemic, my current research focuses on exploring, creating, deploying, and evaluating (multi-)sensory data representation models that leverage our bodily senses to raise environmental awareness, increase data literacy, and support community health initiatives. Over the past decade, the emergence of low-cost sensors, proliferation of personal devices, and expansion of wireless […]
Computing Community Consortium Blog
The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.
CIFellows Spotlight – From Data to Knowledge: Environmental Sensing and Data Narration
April 13th, 2021 / in CCC, CIFellows, CIFellows Spotlight, research horizons, Research News / by Maddy HunterMelanie Mitchell on Munk Debate Podcast – “The Rise of Thinking Machines”
April 12th, 2021 / in AI, Announcements, CCC, policy, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightMelanie Mitchell, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member and Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and Portland State University, was recently on the Munk Debates podcast, in an episode titled “The Rise of Thinking Machines” with Stuart Russell, Professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley. The podcast, led by Munk Debate chair and moderator Rudyard Griffiths, explores whether the quest for true AI is one of the great existential risks of our time. Russell believes that if we keep on our current path, AI has the potential to cause real harm. He said, “We need to build a new foundation for AI, but we don’t know […]
CIFellows 2021 Webinar Thursday, April 15th, 2:30 PM ET
April 12th, 2021 / in AI, Announcements, CCC, CRA, NSF, policy, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightLast week the Computing Research Association (CRA) and Computing Community Consortium (CCC) announced the Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) Program for 2021. This program recognizes the significant disruption to the academic job search caused by the pandemic and associated economic uncertainty and aims to help ensure continuity of the research pipeline through disruptions related to COVID-19. Awards will support an individual for 2 years as a postdoctoral fellow (“CIFellow”) at a host institution of their choosing. CRA will issue subawards to the Host Institution to cover an annual postdoc salary of $75,000, plus fringe and indirect costs (capped at 35%). CIFellows will have the ability to select a Fall 2021 or […]
Submit Requests for Supplemental Funding to the NSF CISE BPC Program
April 7th, 2021 / in Announcements, NSF, pipeline, policy, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightThis message was brought to you by the National Science Foundation Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering. The Broadening Participation in Computing program (BPC) aims to significantly increase the number of U.S. citizens and permanent residents receiving post-secondary degrees in the computer and information science and engineering (CISE) disciplines, and to encourage participation of other groups underrepresented in the CISE disciplines. PIs with active Medium and Large CISE Core programs awards funded in the last three years (specifically pursuant to solicitations NSF 20-591, 19-589. 18-569, 18-568, and 18-570) are invited to submit supplemental funding requests to engage more members of the CISE research community in significant BPC efforts […]
CIFellows Spotlight: Towards Fair and Interpretable Language Processing Models and their Applications
April 6th, 2021 / in CIFellows, CIFellows Spotlight, research horizons, Research News / by Maddy HunterSunipa Dev began her CIFellowship in January 2021 after receiving her PhD from University of Utah in Fall of 2020. Dev is at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) working with Kai-Wei Chang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UCLA. Dev recently co-presented a tutorial at AAAI 2021 which highlights using an interactive, visual tool, how language representations carry social biases and the ways in which we can mitigate the same. Details can be found here. She is also organizing a workshop on Responsible AI at KDD 2021. Current Project Language representations are ubiquitously used in language processing and generation tasks, which in turn are key in a variety of […]
CRA/CCC Announces CIFellows 2021 Program
April 5th, 2021 / in Announcements, CCC, CIFellows, CRA, Research News / by Maddy HunterThe Computing Research Association (CRA) and Computing Community Consortium (CCC) are pleased to announce a new Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) cohort for 2021. This program recognizes the continued disruption to hiring in academic institutions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As before, this program aims to provide a career-enhancing bridge experience for recent and soon-to-be PhD graduates in computing to support maintaining the computing research pipeline. The Computing Innovation Fellows Program is open to researchers whose work falls under the umbrella of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computing and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate. This includes PhD graduates who are planning a career in academia either as a research scientist or […]
