Computing Innovation Fellows 2020 Project

当前的冠状病毒（COVID-19）大流行正在扰乱日常生活和工作的各个方面，包括对计算研究界当前的教师招聘季节产生严重影响。计算研究协会（CRA）于2020年4月1日完成的一项调查显示，由于招聘冻结，大约有100个学术计算工作岗位被撤出市场，大学继续预测即将到来的学年将出现重大财务损失，这可能对明年的学术计算就业市场产生负面影响。因此，我们需要的是一座桥梁，让训练有素的研究人员保持在学术管道中，以保持未来的计算创新，并满足未来计算专业人员的培训需求，因为这些将是未来经济的支柱。CRA及其计算社区联盟（CCC）为十年前的严重经济衰退提供了这样一座桥梁，利用NSF的资金管理三批计算创新研究员（CIFellows）。这个博士后项目使127名年轻学者继续从事职业发展项目的研究。 目前的项目，CIFellows 2020，旨在为学术计算管道提供类似的支持，因为它在当前的流行病之后受到了破坏。CIFellows 2020项目从最初的CIFellows项目中汲取灵感，但通过引入更多的灵活性，使其适应当前的不确定情况，允许在申请人目前的机构做博士后的选择，并提供基于最初努力中出现的最佳实践的重要指导/队列建设组件。研究员可以来自NSF计算和信息科学与工程（CISE）保护伞下的任何研究领域。研究员将从事1-2年的博士后经验，以新的方式促进他们的职业发展。将实施申请程序，并将采用技术方案委员会的方式，严格遵守利益冲突，并根据对沿着许多方面的优点和多样性的全面评价，甄选成功的申请人，主要强调申请材料的智力价值和更广泛的影响。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的学术价值和更广泛的影响评审标准。

The current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is disrupting aspects of daily life and work, including having a serious impact on the current faculty-recruiting season in the computing-research community. A Computing Research Association (CRA) survey completed on April 1st 2020 counted about 100 academic-computing job positions being pulled from the market due to hiring freezes, and universities continue to forecast major financial losses for the upcoming academic year, with likely negative impacts on the academic-computing job market for the next year as well. Thus what is needed is a bridge that keeps highly trained researchers in the academic pipeline to preserve future computing innovation and to meet the training needs of future computing professionals, as these will be the backbone of the future economy. CRA and its Computing Community Consortium (CCC) provided such a bridge for the severe economic downturn a decade ago, using NSF funding to administer three cohorts of Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows). That postdoctoral project kept 127 young scholars in research with career-enhancing programs. The current project, CIFellows 2020, is intended to provide similar support for the academic-computing pipeline in light of the damage it is sustaining in the wake of the current pandemic. The CIFellows 2020 project takes inspiration from the original CIFellows project but adapts it to the current uncertain situation, by incorporating more flexibility, allowing the option of doing a postdoc at the applicant’s current institution, and providing a significant mentoring/cohort-building component that is based on best practices that emerged from the original effort. Fellows may come from any research area under the umbrella of NSF Computing and Information Science and Engineering (CISE). Fellows will engage in a 1-2 year postdoctoral experience that furthers their career development in new ways. An application process will be implemented, and selection of successful applicants will be made using a technical program-committee style with strict adherence to conflicts of interest and based on a holistic evaluation of merit and diversity along many dimensions, with major emphasis on intellectual merit and broader impacts in applicant materials.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.