Building the research innovation workforce: a workshop to identify new insights and directions to advance the research computing community.

研究型企业需要一支熟练的研究创新队伍，由高级网络基础设施（CI）、研究软件工程、运营和用户支持等领域训练有素的熟练从业者组成。美国国家科学技术委员会（National Science and Technology Council）最近的一份报告强调了对这类劳动力的需求。该项目将在包括学者和实践者在内的各种亲和团体中开展一系列虚拟研讨会，讨论和探索影响研究创新劳动力增长和活力的问题和挑战，并讨论和确定潜在的战略和解决方案，以帮助应对这些挑战。讲习班将在一名熟练的讲习班协调员的协助下完全以虚拟方式进行。建议研讨会的结果将是向国家科学基金会提出一套与CI专业劳动力发展有关的建议；更好地理解影响研究创新的挑战和问题，这些挑战和问题是通过亲和小组内部和小组之间的讨论收集到的；提高对潜在的跨领域战略和解决方案的认识，以鼓励国家研究创新劳动力的增长和健康。研讨会旨在促进共同参与研究事业的亲和团体之间的讨论，特别是针对与建立和加强CI专业人员（例如研究软件工程师，研究数据科学专业人员，先进的网络基础设施系统专业人员等）有关的问题，目的是确定问题领域，讨论和确定潜在的解决方案。并制定了一套建议供国家研究界和美国国家科学基金会考虑。讲习班联合主席和指导委员会代表了广泛的利益相关者群体。本次研讨会的主要目标是探讨挑战和潜在的策略和解决方案，以满足对先进CI研究创新劳动力的需求，这对于推进计算和数据密集型科学研究的前沿至关重要。研讨会将产生一份报告，提出建议，促进多元化、包容性和新兴专业人士的成长和职业道路，使他们能够跨越传统界限，开展合作，促进研究和教育。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

The research enterprise requires a skilled research innovation workforce, consisting of highly trained and skilled practitioners in areas such as advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI), research software engineering, operations, and user support. A recent report from the National Science and Technology Council highlighted the need for this workforce. This project will conduct a series of virtual workshop sessions among a variety of affinity groups that includes academics and practioners to discuss and explore the problems and challenges affecting the growth and vitality of the research innovation workforce, and to discuss and identify potential strategies and solutions to help address these challenges. The workshop will be conducted entirely virtually with the aid of a skilled workshop facilitator. The outcomes of the proposed workshop will be a set of recommendations to the National Science Foundation related to CI professional workforce development; a better understanding of the challenges and problems affecting research innovation gleaned from discussions within and across affinity groups; and increased awareness of potentially cross-cutting strategies and solutions to encourage the growth and health of the national research innovation workforce.The workshop seeks to facilitate a discussion among the affinity groups who collectively participate in the research enterprise, specifically targeting issues related to building and enhancing the CI professional workforce (e.g. research software engineers, research data science professionals, advanced cyberinfrastructure systems professionals, etc.) with the goal of identifying problem areas, discussing and identifying potential solutions, and developing a set of recommendations for consideration by the national research community and the NSF. The workshop co-chairs and steering committee represent a broad group of stakeholders. The primary goal of the proposed workshop is to explore the challenges and potential strategies and solutions to address the need for an advanced CI research innovation workforce that is essential to advancing the frontiers of computational and data-intensive scientific research. The workshop will result in a report with recommendations for fostering growth and career paths for a diverse, inclusive, and emerging set of professionals that collaborates across traditional boundaries and enables research and education.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.