Conference: NSF CICI Principal Investigator Meeting

网络基础设施是当今几乎所有科学研究的重要组成部分。随着科学项目变得更大、更具协作性，共享数据和算法的需求也在扩大，开放科学和公开共享数据集的新任务也随之增加。NSF的网络基础设施网络安全创新(CiCi)计划由一系列旨在改善网络基础设施的安全和隐私的项目组成。随着CiCi在范围和重要性上的增长，有必要在一个专门讨论CiCi问题的环境中召集该项目的研究人员。亚利桑那州立大学将于2024年初在亚利桑那州立大学校园为CiCi获奖者领导、组织和主办为期两天的首席调查员会议。通过召集CiCi社区，会议将促进整个项目中更多的智力交流，鼓励项目之间的合作和交叉培养，加强与科学界的联系，并确定重要的新兴趋势和研究问题。CiCi的研究项目增强了网络基础设施的安全和隐私，这有利于单个科学项目，促进具有弹性的科学生态系统，并保护美国在海外的利益。特别是，会议将确定项目之间的协同效应和当前项目组合中的差距。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Cyberinfrastructure is an essential component of virtually all scientific research conducted today. As scientific projects have grown larger and more collaborative, the need to share data and algorithms has expanded, together with new mandates for open science and public sharing of datasets. The Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI) program at NSF consists of a portfoloio of projects aimed at improving the security and privacy of cyberinfrastructure. As CICI has grown in scope and importance, there is a need to convene researchers in the program in a setting dedicated to CICI concerns. ASU will lead organize and host a two-day Principal Investigators meeting for CICI awardees, to be held on the ASU campus in early 2024.By convening the CICI community, the meeting will foster increased intellectual interchange across the program, encourage collaboration and cross-fertilization among projects, strengthen connections to the scientific community, and identify important emerging trends and research questions. CICI research projects enhance the security and privacy of cyberinfrastructure, which benefits individual scientific projects, promotes a resilient scientific ecosystem, and protects U.S. interests abroad. In particular, the meeting will identify synergies among projects and gaps in the current project portfolio.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.