CISE Newsletter

The Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) newsletter provides monthly updates from CISE leadership, including funding opportunities and deadlines, news and announcements, events, career opportunities and faces of CISE.

December 2024

Content highlights

  • A Message from CISE Leadership – Greg Hager.
  • Funding Opportunities and Deadline.: New NSF SaTC 2.0 solicitation
  • News & Announcements: Brown names Michael Littman inaugural Associate Provost for AI
  • Event: 2025 NSF CC* PI Workshop.

Read the December 2024 newsletter

November 2024

Content highlights

  • A Message from CISE Leadership – Greg Hager.
  • Funding Opportunities and Deadline.
  • News & Announcements: Google DeepMind releases code behind its most advanced protein prediction program
  • Event: "CISE Advisory Committee Fall Meeting."
    The Advisory Committee meeting will take place on the following dates:
    Day 1: Wednesday, December 11, 2024, from 12-5 p.m.
    Day 2: Thursday, December 12, 2024, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
  • Faces of CISE: Rajiv Gandhi, professor of computer science, Rutgers University–Camden.

Read the November 2024 newsletter

October 2024

Content highlights

  • A Message from CISE Leadership – Greg Hager.
  • Funding Opportunities and Deadline.
  • News & Announcements: U.S. releases National Spectrum Research and Development Plan to guide spectrum innovation
  • Event: Smart Health Frontiers: Combating Cancer with Advanced Technologies - Tuesday, October 29, 3-4 p.m
  • Faces of CISE: Hoda Mehrpouyan, Ph.D., is an associate professor of computer science at Boise State University. 

Read the October 2024 newsletter

September 2024

Content highlights

  • A Message from CISE Leadership – Greg Hager
  • Funding Opportunities and Deadlines
  • News & Announcements:NSF and Simons Foundation launch 2 AI Institutes to help astronomers understand the cosmos
  • Event: NSF at Neuroscience 2024 - Sunday, October 6 – Wednesday, October 9, 2024
  • Faces of CISE: Alexandra Kondyli, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Transportation Engineering in civil, environmental and architectural engineering at the University of Kansas

Read the September 2024 newsletter

August 2024

Content highlights

  • A Message from CISE Leadership – Greg Hager
  • Funding Opportunities and Deadlines
  • News & Announcements: Announcing the NSF Game Maker Awards for K-12
  • Event: Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence Office Hours
  • Faces of CISE: Victor M. Lubecke, Ph.D., Professor of Electrical Engineering University of Hawaii, Manoa

Read the August 2024 Newsletter

July 2024

Content highlights

  • A Message from CISE Leadership – Greg Hager.
  • Funding Opportunity: Dear Colleague Letter: Planning Grants to Create Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Ready Test Beds.
  • News: NSF announces groundbreaking Leadership-Class Computing Facility project
  • Event: “28th NSF EPSCoR National Conference.” October 13-16, 2024. Omaha, NE.
  • Faces of CISE: Jeff Gray, Ph.D., University of Alabama.

Read the July 2024 Newsletter

June 2024

Content highlights

  • A Message from CISE Leadership – Greg Hager.
  • Funding Opportunity: NAIRR Pilot opportunity for researchers and educators open.
  • News: Creating a diverse and inclusive AI research community is the goal of new NSF awards.
  • Event: “Smart Health Frontiers: Precision Medicine Through Engineering”. July 16, 2024. 3-4 pm ET.
  • Faces of CISE: Samee U. Khan, Ph.D.

Read the June 2024 Newsletter

May 2024

Content highlights

  • A Message from CISE Leadership - Dilma Da Silva.
  • Funding Opportunity: Planning Proposals for Large-scale Projects in Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) in Eligible EPSCoR Jurisdictions.
  • News: NSF-led National AI Research Resource Pilot awards first round access to 35 projects in partnership with DOE.
  • Event: NSF Grants Conference. June 3-5, 2024. Philadelphia, PA.
  • Faces of CISE: Jesse Thaler, Ph.D.

Read the May 2024 Newsletter

April 2024

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Avi Wigderson receives ACM A.M. Turing Award for groundbreaking insights on randomness.

Credit: Alex Berg

Content highlights

  • A Message from CISE Leadership - Dilma Da Silva.
  • Funding Opportunity: Next Era of Wireless and Spectrum.
  • News: National Medal of Science laureates are honored. 
  • Event: Exploring EPSCoR Research Ecosystems Workshop Series May 22-23.
  • Faces of CISE: David Andrews, Ph.D.

Read the April 2024 Newsletter.

March 2024

Content highlights

  • A Message from CISE Leadership - Dilma Da Silva.
  • Funding Opportunity: Campus Cyberinfrastructure.
  • News: NSF, NIH partner on new research to develop RNA-based methods for biotech innovations.
  • Event: Computer and Information Science and Engineering Research Expansion Program Office Hours.
  • Faces of CISE: Greg Hager, Ph.D.

Read the March 2024 Newsletter.

February 2024

Content highlights

  • A Message from CISE Leadership - Dilma Da Silva.
  • Funding opportunity: Strengthening American Infrastructure (SAI).
  • News: NSF research security training modules now available.
  • Event: Distinguished Lecture with Jamie Payton, professor and chair of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Temple University: Building Capacity and Community for Broadening Participation in Computing.
  • Faces of CISE: Yolanda Gil, Ph.D.

Read the February 2024 newsletter.

January 2024

Content highlights

  • A Message from CISE Leadership - Dilma Da Silva
  • Funding opportunity: National Discovery Cloud for Climate Opportunities
  • News: Democratizing the future of AI R&D
  • Event: FuSe2 Program Webinar.
  • Faces of CISE: Vern Paxson, Ph.D

Read the January 2024 newsletter.

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