Collaborative Research: Conference: 2024 Aspiring PIs in Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace

协作研究：会议：2024 年安全可信网络空间中的有抱负的 PI

• 批准号: 2404950
• 负责人: Blase Ur
• 金额: $ 12.23万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-02-01 至 2025-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2404950&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Conference; 2024; Aspiring

The Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace program (SaTC) is the premiere NSF program for supporting research in computer security and privacy. New principal investigators, whom we term aspiring PIs, often find writing their first successful SaTC funding proposal intimidating and difficult. This project funds a 1.5 day workshop to support these aspiring PIs in preparing competitive SaTC funding proposals. The workshop's goals are to provide mentorship and direct feedback to aspiring PIs on their proposals, which can represent either their first submission attempt or a revision of a previously declined proposal. The workshop's novelties are its one-on-one meetings with mentors about their research plans, participation in mock panels that simulate the NSF's merit review process, and the development of a research executive summary. Together, these activities are designed to help aspiring PIs develop compelling and comprehensive research plans. The workshop's broader significance and importance are the impact these activities will have on better equipping aspiring PIs from a range of institutions and backgrounds to write competitive SaTC proposals, better reflecting the breadth of the nation's researchers and their ideas.Writing a successful funding proposal often requires substantial implicit knowledge about community expectations and norms. Experienced PIs (i.e., those who have previously been funded) and their colleagues draw on past experiences having proposals reviewed, as well as "folk knowledge" from discussions with their peers. Aspiring PIs who lack this experience typically experience lower levels of success in the competitive funding process even though their intellectual ideas might match or exceed those of experienced PIs. Notably, experienced PIs are more likely to work at large universities that already receive generous NSF support, be part of existing professional networks, and come from the same academic lineages. The aspiring PI workshop aims to ensure that aspiring PIs' ideas about improving the nation's security and privacy are on a more level playing field with experienced PIs' ideas.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.

安全且值得信赖的网络空间计划（SATC）是用于支持计算机安全和隐私研究的首要NSF计划。我们认为PIS的新主要调查员经常发现他们的第一个成功的SATC资金提案吓到了且困难。该项目为1.5天的研讨会提供资金，以支持这些有抱负的PI在准备竞争性SATC资助建议方面。研讨会的目标是向有抱负的PI提供指导和直接反馈，这可以代表他们的第一次提交尝试或对先前拒绝的提议的修订。研讨会的新颖性是与导师有关其研究计划的一对一会议，参与模拟NSF优点审查过程的模拟面板以及研究高管摘要的发展。这些活动共同旨在帮助有抱负的PI制定引人入胜且全面的研究计划。研讨会的更广泛的意义和重要性是，这些活动将对从一系列机构和背景的有抱负的PI进行更好的有抱负的PI撰写竞争性SATC提案的影响，更好地反映了国家研究人员及其想法的广度。编写成功的资助建议通常需要对社区期望和规范的实质性认识。经验丰富的PI（即那些以前被资助的人）及其同事借鉴了过去的经验，并从与同龄人的讨论中进行了讨论。缺乏这种经验的有抱负的PI通常在竞争资金过程中会经历较低的成功水平，即使他们的智力思想可能与经验丰富的PI相符或超过经验丰富的PI。值得注意的是，经验丰富的PI更有可能在已经获得大量NSF支持的大型大学工作，成为现有专业网络的一部分，并且来自相同的学术血统。有抱负的PI研讨会旨在确保有抱负的PI关于改善国家安全和隐私的想法以经验丰富的PIS的想法在更高的竞争环境中。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的评估来评估来支持的。