An application form is available here.
May 31, 2011, 5:00 p.m. EDT. is the deadline for applications, including letters of recommendation that must be submitted separately.
You may provide us with the names and e-mail addresses of your recommenders before you submit an application; we will contact them while you are gathering your other application materials. Please use this form to do so.
Provided below is the list of items that are required for a complete application. Please gather these items prior to using the application form linked above.
For any questions regarding the program please e-mail contact@cifellows.org.
Application Checklist
- A one-page statement of research accomplishments.
- A two-page statement of goals for scholarly activity, teaching, and/or other proposed activities including a statement of the intellectual merits and broader impacts of the proposed work;
- Two confidential letters of reference submitted directly by the recommenders.
(We will contact recommenders at the e-mail addresses provided by the candidate on the application form.)
- A letter from the applicant's Ph.D. advisor or department chair stating that the applicant will have completed all work toward a Ph.D. degree by August 31, 2011
(The advisor or chair should provide the candidate with a pdf or Word file, which the candidate
will upload, along with the rest of the materials, using the application form.)
- A list of one to three proposed mentors who must be from U.S. institutions different from the applicant’s graduate institution (note that the goals of the CIFellows project favor selecting mentors at a broad range of institutions), listed in the preferred order.
- A one-page document from the applicant indicating the sub-discipline (see below) of the proposed work with this mentor, the rationale for this choice of mentor and the expected benefits of working with this mentor, as well as the relationship of the activity to the applicant’s career goals.
- A one-page document from the proposed mentor indicating a commitment to work with the prospective CIFellow, a mentoring plan, and a summary of the mentor’s prior record of mentoring.
(Endorsements from proposed mentors must be submitted by the CIFellow as part of his/her application materials.)
Sub-Disciplines (Broad Research Areas)
- AI / Machine Learning / Robotics / Vision
- Computer Science Education / Educational Technology
- Databases / Information Retrieval / Data Mining
- Graphics / Visualization
- Hardware / Architecture
- HCI / CSCW
- Information Assurance / Security / Privacy / Cryptography
- Information Systems / Information Science
- Mobile / Ubiquitous / Embedded Computing
- Networks / Operating Systems
- Numerical/Scientific Computing / HPC / Data-Intensive Scalable Computing
- Programming Languages / Compilers
- Scientific/Medical Informatics
(e.g., bioinformatics, computational biology, clinical informatics, public health informatics, chemical informatics...)
- Social Computing / Social Informatics
- Software Engineering
- Technology Policy
- Theory / Algorithms
- Other
( e.g, quantum computing, synthetic biology, computational neuroscience, technology for the developing world, etc...)