Computing Innovation Fellows Project 2021

由于疫情及由此产生的不确定环境，学术机构正面临严重的招聘中断。这使得计算研究界面临着失去另一类年轻研究人员的风险，这些年轻研究人员无法等待当前的中断，因此可能会永久离开研究职业道路。可以预见，研究人员的流失将对计算创新和影响产生长期的下游影响。计算创新研究员（CIFellows）计划通过为计算机信息科学和工程领域的博士毕业生提供为期两年的博士后职位提供资金来解决这些问题，以提供职业生涯增强的桥梁经验，使他们有机会留在学术研究社区，并在NSF CISE的保护伞下保留一批早期职业专业人士。在国家科学基金会的资助下，CIFellows 2021计划将提供为期两年的计算博士后机会，并通过队列活动支持职业发展和社区建设。该计划是开放的研究人员，其工作福尔斯属于国家科学基金会计算和信息科学与工程理事会，谁已经完成或计划完成他们的博士学位之间1/1/20 - 12/31/21。申请人将与来自美国学术机构的导师合作进行博士后研究。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Due to the pandemic and the resulting uncertain circumstances, academic institutions are facing major hiring disruptions. This leaves the computing research community at risk of losing yet another class of young researchers who cannot afford to wait out the current disruption and thus may leave the research career path permanently. It is not a stretch to anticipate that the loss of this workforce in the research pipeline will have long-lasting downstream effects on computing innovation and impact. The Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) Program addresses these issues by providing funding for two-year postdoctoral positions for recent PhD graduates in computer information science and engineering to provide a career-enhancing bridge experience that will give them the opportunity to remain in the academic research community and retain a cohort of early career professionals in areas under the umbrella of NSF CISE. With funding by the National Science Foundation, the CIFellows 2021 program will offer two-year postdoctoral opportunities in computing, with cohort activities to support career development and community building. This program is open to researchers whose work falls under the National Science Foundation Computing and Information Science and Engineering Directorate and who have completed or plan to complete their PhD between 1/1/20 - 12/31/21. Applicants will work with a mentor from a US academic institution for their postdoc.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.