Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Safe and Secure Artificial Intelligence Solutions (SAIS)

规划资助：安全可靠的人工智能解决方案工程研究中心（SAIS）

• 批准号: 1840458
• 负责人: Hongyi Wu
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Old Dominion University Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2020-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1840458&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; Engineering; Research; Center

The Planning Grants for Engineering Research Centers competition was run as a pilot solicitation within the ERC program. Planning grants are not required as part of the full ERC competition, but intended to build capacity among teams to plan for convergent, center-scale engineering research.The planning grant enables the principal investigators (PIs) to work with a full spectrum of stakeholders to prepare the groundwork for establishing an Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Safe and Secure Artificial Intelligence Solutions (SAIS). The proposed center focuses on development of fundamental, theoretically-grounded, and systematic approaches to enable safe and secure AI and establishment of an interdisciplinary community that engages all stakeholders. Scholars from multiple disciplines and practitioners from multiple fields will work together to fully understand the problems and explore the design space. The success of this endeavor can potentially lead to enabling technologies for secure machine learning systems, thereby accelerating their development and widening their adoption in different application domains. Regional educators and government/industrial employers will be engaged to train cybersecurity workforce. Overall the proposed ERC SAIS contributes significantly to the protection of future cyber and physical world and safeguarding the human society. The PIs will identify and engage the SAIS stakeholder community, including partners and participants from academics, government and military agencies, research centers, and various industries. The interdisciplinary team will plan a long-term vision and direction for SAIS and identify key research and development thrusts, based on the inputs from all stakeholders. The team will develop marketing plan, future member recruiting plan, and cooperative membership agreement (including membership eligibility, commitment, and intellectual property ownership). The team will decide the center's administration structure and management policies and guidelines. The team also will identify a set of research, education, workforce development, and outreach projects to be carried out during the first two years should the center be established. Finally, the team will create plans to work with university admission and K-12 educators to inspire and improve the participation of underrepresented groups in the proposed ERC SIAS and introduce cybersecurity to school counselors, teachers, students, and parents.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

工程研究中心竞赛的计划赠款是在ERC计划中作为试点招标进行的。 在全面ERC竞争的一部分中，不需要计划赠款，而是要在团队之间建立能力，以计划收敛的中心规模的工程研究。计划授予的授予使主要研究人员（PIS）能够与全面利益相关者合作，为建立一个工程研究中心（ERC）的全面范围，以建立一个安全和安全的人工情报解决方案（SAIS）（SAIS）。拟议的中心着重于发展基本，理论上的系统方法，以实现安全，安全的AI并建立与所有利益相关者保持与所有利益相关者的跨学科社区。来自多个学科的学者和来自多个领域的从业者将共同努力，以充分理解问题并探索设计空间。这项努力的成功可能会导致为安全机器学习系统提供促进技术，从而加速其开发并扩大其在不同应用领域的采用。区域教育者和政府/工业雇主将聘请培训网络安全劳动力。总体而言，拟议的ERC SAI为保护未来的网络和物理世界以及保护人类社会的保护做出了重大贡献。 PI将识别并吸引SAIS利益相关者社区，包括来自学者，政府和军事机构，研究中心以及各个行业的合作伙伴和参与者。跨学科团队将根据所有利益相关者的意见，计划SAI的长期愿景和指导，并确定关键的研发推力。该团队将制定营销计划，未来会员招聘计划以及合作会员协议（包括成员资格，承诺和知识产权所有权）。团队将决定中心的管理结构和管理政策和指南。该团队还将确定一组研究，教育，劳动力发展和外展项目将在最初的两年内建立。最后，该团队将制定计划与大学录取和K-12教育者合作，以激发和改善代表性不足的团体参与拟议的ERC SIAS，并向学校辅导员，老师，学生和父母介绍网络安全性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，反映了通过使用基金会的智力效果和广泛的范围来进行评估，并被认为是值得的支持。