Computing Innovation Fellows Project 2021

由于疫情和由此产生的不确定环境，学术机构正面临着重大的招聘中断。这使得计算研究社区面临着失去另一批年轻研究人员的风险，他们无法承受当前的混乱，因此可能永远离开研究职业道路。可以毫不夸张地预测，研究管道中劳动力的流失将对计算创新和影响产生长期的下游影响。计算机创新研究员（CIFellows）计划通过为计算机信息科学与工程专业的近期博士毕业生提供为期两年的博士后职位资助来解决这些问题，为他们提供职业提升的桥梁经验，使他们有机会留在学术研究界，并在NSF CISE的保护下保留一批早期职业专业人员。在美国国家科学基金会（National Science Foundation）的资助下，CIFellows 2021项目将提供为期两年的计算机博士后机会，并提供队列活动，以支持职业发展和社区建设。本项目面向已完成或计划在1/1/20 - 12/31/21期间完成博士学位的美国国家科学基金会计算与信息科学与工程理事会工作的研究人员开放。申请人将与美国学术机构的导师一起进行博士后研究。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。

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.