Computing Community Announces Inaugural Recipients of Computing Innovation Fellows Program; Program Will Help Computing Field Retain Ph.D.s
WASHINGTON, DC, October 15, 2009
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and the Computing Research Association (CRA) today announced its inaugural class of Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows). These 60 recent Ph.D. graduates will receive one to two-year postdoctoral positions at computing research institutions. The fellowship awards were made possible by a $15 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
“The CIFellows program should help the computing field retain new Ph.D.s in research and teaching,” said Ed Lazowska, chair of the CCC and Bill & Melinda Gates chair of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington. “It is a remarkable testament to the community and the National Science Foundation that we are able to provide these fellowships to the top emerging researchers in computing.”
“Equally remarkable was the lightning speed at which the community rallied, responded and carried out the project," explained Peter Lee, the coordinator of the CIFellows Project and former head of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, now at DARPA.
CIFellows is the first ever program coordinated by the computing community to support postdoctoral researchers. The fellowship will connect researchers and organizations of differing characteristics to help support the long-term health of the computing field. The fellows will take positions at a wide range of host institutions including colleges, universities, research labs and non-profit organizations.
“CIFellows and their mentors fully represent the depth and breadth of our field,” said Lee. “They are in every respect, an extraordinary and diverse group.”
The 60 CIFellows represent 43 colleges and universities and will be mentored by 49 organizations, including six industrial research labs. CIF Fellows are a diverse group – 40 percent are women; 13 percent are African American, Hispanic American, or Native American; and 77 percent are US citizens or permanent residents. More than 500 recent Ph.D. graduates applied for the CIFellows awards and more than 1,200 established scientists registered as prospective mentors. To learn more about the CIFellows program, visit cifellows.org.
The Computing Community Consortium, an activity of the Computing Research Association, supports the computing research community in creating compelling research visions and the mechanisms to realize these visions.
The Fellows were selected through an intensive process using a Selection Committee followed by discussion on the Steering Committee.
Selection Committee members were:
Maneesh Agrawala (University of California, Berkeley)
Al Aho (Columbia University)
Martin Berzins (University of Utah)
Donna Dodson (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Kathleen Fisher (AT&T Labs)
Oscar Garcia (University of North Texas)
Thorna Humphries (Norfolk State University)
M. Frans Kaashoek (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Leslie Kaelbling (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
David Kaeli (Northeastern University)
Jon Kleinberg (Cornell University)
James A. Landay (University of Washington)
Christopher James Langmead (Carnegie Mellon University)
Jim Larus (Microsoft Research)
Peter Lee (Carnegie Mellon University)
Andrew McCallum (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Lisa Meeden (Swarthmore College)
J Strother Moore (University of Texas at Austin)
Elizabeth Mynatt (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Timothy M. Pinkston (University of Southern California)
Martha E. Pollack (University of Michigan)
Stefan Savage (University of California, San Diego)
David Waltz (Columbia University)
Roy Want (Intel Research)
Rebecca Wright (Rutgers University)
Steering Committee members were:
Andrew Bernat (CRA)
Andrew A. Chien (Intel Research)
Susan Graham (University of California at Berkeley)
Anita Jones (University of Virginia)
Rangachar Kasturi (University of South Florida)
Rajinder Khosla (National Science Foundation)
Ed Lazowska (University of Washington)
Peter Lee (Carnegie Mellon University)
Ran Libeskind-Hadas (Harvey Mudd College)
Bobby Schnabel (Indiana University)
Fred Schneider (Cornell University)
Bob Sproull (Sun Microsystems Laboratories)
The inaugural class of CIFellows and their mentors are:
| CIFellow | PhD Institution | Field of Research | Mentor | Host Institution |
| Zlatan Aksamija | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Quantum Computing, Synthetic Biology, Computational Neuroscience, etc. | Irena Knezevic | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Sitaram Asur | Ohio State University | Social Computing/Social Informatics | Bernardo Huberman | HP |
| Paula Bach | Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus | HCI/CSCW | Mike Twidale | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Cindy Bethel | University of South Florida | AI / Machine Learning / Robotics / Vision | Brian Scassellati | Yale |
| Carleton Bosley | New York University | Information Assurance / Security / Privacy / Cryptography | Antonio Nicolosi | Stevens Institute of Technology |
| Quincy Brown | Drexel | Computer Science Education / Educational Technology | Allison Druin | University of Maryland |
| Yuriy Brun | University of Southern California | Software Engineering | David Notkin | University of Washington |
| Scott Coull | Johns Hopkins | Information Assurance / Security / Privacy / Cryptography | Michael Reiter | University of North Carolina |
| Nicholas Diakopoulos | Georgia Tech | HCI/CSCW | Mor Naaman | Rutgers University |
| Jeremy Fineman | MIT | Theory / Algorithms | Guy Blelloch | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Davide Fossati | University of Illinois at Chicago | Computer Science Education / Educational Technology | Mark Guzdial | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Xin Fu | University of Florida | Hardware / Architecture | Sarita Adve | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Ronald Garcia | Indiana University-Bloomington | Programming Languages/Compilers | Frank Pfenning | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Ragib Hasan | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Information Assurance / Security / Privacy / Cryptography | Randal Burns | Johns Hopkins University |
| Michael Hines | SUNY at Binghamton | Networks/Operating Systems | Jason Nieh | Columbia University |
| Daniel Howe | New York University | Quantum Computing, Synthetic Biology, Computational Neuroscience, etc. | Andy van Dam | Brown University |
| Yuho Jin | Texas A&M | Hardware / Architecture | Timothy Pinkston | University of Southern California |
| Jeffrey Johns | University of Massachusetts-Amherst | AI / Machine Learning / Robotics / Vision | Ronald Parr | Duke University |
| Yong Kil | UC Davis | Graphics/Visualization | Marshall Bern | Xerox PARC |
| Dara Kusic | Drexel | Networks/Operating Systems | Daniel Mosse | University of Pittsburgh |
| Benjamin Lee | Harvard | Hardware / Architecture | Mark Horowitz | Stanford University |
| Katrina Ligett | Carnegie Mellon University | Theory / Algorithms | Eva Tardos | Cornell University |
| Edgar Lobaton | University of California-Berkeley | AI / Machine Learning / Robotics / Vision | Ron Alterovitz | University of North Carolina |
| Cristian Lumezanu | University of Maryland-College Park | Networks/Operating Systems | Nick Feamster | Georgia Tech |
| Niti Madan | University of Utah | Hardware / Architecture | Pradip Bose | IBM |
| Victoria Manfredi | University of Massachusetts-Amherst | Networks/Operating Systems | Mark Crovella | Boston University |
| Damon McCoy | University of Colorado at Boulder | Information Assurance / Security / Privacy / Cryptography | Stefan Savage | University of California-San Diego |
| Andrew McPherson | University of Pennsylvania | HCI/CSCW | Youngmoo Kim | Drexel |
| Miriah Meyer | University of Utah | Graphics/Visualization | Hanspeter Pfister | Harvard |
| Lilyana Mihalkova | University of Texas at Austin | AI / Machine Learning / Robotics / Vision | Lise Getoor | University of Maryland |
| Antonina Mitrofanova | New York University | Scientific/Medical Informatics2 | Andrea Califano | Columbia University |
| Deidra Morrison | Northwestern University | Social Computing / Social Informatics | Juan Gilbert | Clemson University |
| Ifeoma Nwogu | SUNY Buffalo | AI / Machine Learning / Robotics / Vision | Christopher Brown | University of Rochester |
| Iris Oved | Rutgers University-New Brunswick | AI / Machine Learning / Robotics / Vision | Paul Cohen | University of Arizona |
| Joyojeet Pal | University of California-Berkeley | Social Computing/Social Informatics | John Bennett | University of Colorado |
| Jeff Phillips | Duke University | Theory / Algorithms | Suresh Venkatasubramanian | University of Utah |
| Sally Pias | New Mexico State University | Scientific/Medical Informatics2 | Carlos Simmerling | SUNY Stony Brook |
| Anna Pyayt | University of Washington-Seattle Campus | Hardware / Architecture | Olav Solgaard | Stanford University |
| Emilee Rader | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | HCI/CSCW | Darren Gergle | Northwestern University |
| Ioan Raicu | University of Chicago | Numerical/Scientific Computing / HPC / Data-Intensive Scalable Computing | Alok Choudhary | Northwestern University |
| Leena Razzaq | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Computer Science Education / Educational Technology | Beverly Woolf | University of Massachussetts-Amherst |
| Lev Reyzin | Yale | AI / Machine Learning / Robotics / Vision | John Langford | Yahoo! Research |
| Guy Rothblum | MIT | Theory / Algorithms | Boaz Barak | Princeton University |
| Sushmita Roy | University of New Mexico | Scientific/Medical Informatics2 | Aviv Regev | Broad Institute |
| Linda Sellie | University of Chicago | AI / Machine Learning / Robotics / Vision | Lisa Hellerstein | New York University |
| Stelios Sidiroglou | Columbia University | Information Assurance / Security / Privacy / Cryptography | Martin Rinard | MIT |
| David Soloveichik | California Institute of Technology | Quantum Computing, Synthetic Biology, Computational Neuroscience, etc. | Georg Seelig | University of Washington |
| Veselin Stoyanov | Cornell University | AI / Machine Learning / Robotics / Vision | Jason Eisner | Johns Hopkins University |
| Julia Stoyanovich | Columbia University | Databases / Information Retrieval / Data Mining | Susan Davidson | University of Pennsylvania |
| Cui Tao | Brigham Young University | Scientific/Medical Informatics2 | Christopher Chute | Mayo Clinic |
| Lydia Tapia | Texas A&M | Scientific/Medical Informatics2 | Ron Elber | University of Texas at Austin |
| Duygu Ucar | Ohio State University | Databases / Information Retrieval / Data Mining | Kai Tan | University of Iowa |
| David Van Horn | Brandeis University | Programming Languages/Compilers | Matthias Felleisen | Northeastern University |
| Virginia Vassilevska Williams | Carnegie Mellon University | Theory / Algorithms | Satish Rao | University of California-Berkeley |
| Lawton Verner | Johns Hopkins | AI / Machine Learning / Robotics / Vision | Simon DiMaio | Intuitive Surgical |
| Stephen Voida | Georgia Tech | HCI/CSCW | Gloria Mark | UC Irvine |
| Ilya Wagner | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | Hardware / Architecture | Shih-Lien Lu | Intel |
| Jennifer Wortman Vaughan | University of Pennsylvania | AI / Machine Learning / Robotics / Vision | Yiling Chen | Harvard |
| Weijun Xiao | University of Rhode Island | Hardware / Architecture | David Lilja | University of Minnesota |
| Liangjun Zhang | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Quantum Computing, Synthetic Biology, Computational Neuroscience, etc. | Jean-Claude Latombe | Stanford University |
