The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and the Computing Research Association (CRA), with funding from the National Science Foundation, announce a program for new PhD graduates to obtain one-to-two year postdoctoral positions at host organizations including universities, industrial research laboratories, and other organizations that advance the field of computing and its positive impact on society. The goals of the CIFellows project are to retain new PhDs in research and teaching and to support intellectual renewal and diversity in the computing fields at U.S. organizations.
Selection Committee
The Selection Committee is charged with reviewing the applications to the CIFellows Project. Each application will be reviewed by at least two members and no application will be awarded without review by at least three Selection Committee members. An overall ranking of candidates will be provided to the Steering Committee.
Al Aho
Alfred Aho is Lawrence Gussman Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. He is widely known for his co-authorship of the AWK programming language with Peter J. Weinberger and Brian Kernighan (the 'A' stands for "Aho"), and his co-authorship of Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (the "Dragon book") with Monica Lam, Ravi Sethi and Jeffrey Ullman. He wrote the initial versions of the Unix tools egrep and fgrep. He is also a co-author (along with Ullman and John Hopcroft) of a number of widely used textbooks on several areas of computer science, including algorithms and data structures, and the foundations of computer science. Aho's current research interests include programming languages, compilers, algorithms, and quantum computing. He won the IEEE John von Neumann Medal and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a fellow of the AAAS, ACM, Bell Labs, and IEEE. He won the Great Teacher Award from the Society of Columbia Graduates and is part of the Language and Compilers research group at Columbia University.
J Strother Moore
J Strother Moore holds the Admiral B.R. Inman Centennial Chair in Computing Theory at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also chair of the department. He is the author of many books and papers on automated theorem proving and mechanical verification of computing systems. Along with Boyer he is a co-author of the Boyer-Moore theorem prover and the Boyer-Moore fast string searching algorithm. With Matt Kaufmann he is the co-author of the ACL2 theorem prover. Moore got his PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1973 and his BS from MIT in 1970. Moore was a co-founder of Computational Logic, Inc., and served as its chief scientist for ten years. He and Bob Boyer were awarded the Current Prize in Automatic Theorem Proving by the American Mathematical Society in 1991 and they were awarded the Herbrand Award in 1999. In 2005, Boyer, Moore and Kaufmann won the ACM Software System Award, for the Boyer-Moore theorem prover. Moore is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, an ACM Fellow, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Jon Kleinberg
Jon Kleinberg is on the faculty of the Computer Science Department at Cornell University, where he holds the position of Tisch University Professor. His research focuses on issues at the interface of networks and information, with an emphasis on the social and information networks that underpin the Web and other on-line media. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He serves on the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Advisory Committee of the National Science Foundation, and the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Research Council. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a Packard Foundation Fellowship, and a Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the Nevanlinna Prize from the International Mathematical Union, and the National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in Research.
Kathleen Fisher
Kathleen Fisher is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T Labs Research and a Consulting Faculty Member in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. Kathleen's research focuses on advancing the theory and practice of programming languages and on applying ideas from the programming language community to solving real-world problems. The main thrust of her work has been in domain-specific languages to facilitate programming with massive amounts of ad hoc data, including the Hancock system for efficiently building signatures from massive transaction streams and the PADS system for managing ad hoc data. She has served as program chair for FOOL, CUFP, and ICFP, and she is an ACM Distinguished Scientist. Kathleen is currently Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group in Programming Languages (SIGPLAN), Co-Chair of CRA's Committee on the Status of Women (CRA-W), and an editor of the Journal of Functional Programming.
Leslie Kaelbling
Leslie Pack Kaelbling is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Research Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has previously held positions at Brown University, the Artificial Intelligence Center of SRI International, and at Teleos Research. She received an A. B. in Philosophy in 1983 and a Ph. D. in Computer Science in 1990, both from Stanford University. Prof. Kaelbling has done substantial research on designing situated agents, mobile robotics, reinforcement learning, and decision-theoretic planning. In 2000, she founded the Journal of Machine Learning Research, a high-quality journal that is both freely available electronically as well as published in archival form; she currently serves as editor-in-chief. Prof. Kaelbling is an NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow, a former member of the AAAI Executive Council, the 1997 recipient of the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award, a trustee of IJCAII and a fellow of the AAAI.
Lisa Meeden
Lisa Meeden is a Professor of Computer Science and a member of the interdisciplinary Cognitive Science Program at Swarthmore College. She received a B.A. in Mathematics from Grinnell College and a Ph.D. in Computer Science with a minor in Cognitive Science from Indiana University. Her primary research interests are in developmental robotics, with the goal of creating robots that can learn autonomously by selecting their own training data and generating their own teaching signals. She is also active in computer science education research with a focus on attracting and retaining under-represented groups.
Rebecca Wright
Rebecca Wright is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department and the Deputy Director of DIMACS at Rutgers. Her research spans the area of information security, including cryptography, privacy, foundations of computer security, and fault-tolerant distributed computing. Recent work includes privacy-preserving data mining, secure multiparty approximations, and improved bounds for Byzantine agreement in the shared memory model. Dr. Wright serves as an editor of the Journal of Computer Security (IOS Press) and the International Journal of Information and Computer Security (Inderscience), and was a member of the board of directors of the International Association for Cryptologic Research from 2001 to 2005.
Maneesh Agrawala
Maneesh Agrawala is an Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He works on visualization, computer graphics and human computer interaction. His focus is on investigating how cognitive design principles can be used to improve the effectiveness of visual displays. The goals of this work are to discover the design principles and then instantiate them in both interactive and automated design tools. He received an Okawa Foundation Research Grant in 2006, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, an NSF CAREER Award in 2007, and a SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award in 2008.
Donna Dodson
Donna Dodson is the Deputy Chief Cyber Security Advisor of the Computer Security Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). As part of the management team, Donna helps direct the development of NIST’s standards, technology and research for the protect information systems against threats to the confidentiality of information, integrity of information and processes, and availability of information and services in order to build trust and confidence in Information Technology (IT) systems. She is also an active contributor in the areas of authentication and cryptography. Donna has also managed programs including the Advanced Encryption Standard, key management, PKI, authentication and security testing.
David Kaeli
Dr. Kaeli is the Director of the Northeastern University Computer Architecture Research Laboratory (NUCAR). He is the co-leader of the Northeastern University Institute for Information Assurance (IIA) . He is a Research Thrust Leader for the NSF Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS) . He is also a member of the Northeastern University Institute for Complex Scientific Software (ICSS).
David Waltz
David L. Waltz has been Director of the Center for Computational Learning Systems (CCLS) at Columbia University since 2003. He was formerly President of the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, and from 1984-1993 was Director of Advanced Information Systems at Thinking Machines Corporation and Professor of Computer Science at Brandeis University. He had also been Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois for 11 years. Waltz served as president of AAAI (American Association for Artificial Intelligence) from 1997-1999, and is a Fellow of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) and AAAI, a Senior Member of IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers), and former Chairman of ACM SIGART (Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence).
Andrew McCallum
Andrew McCallum is an Associate Professor at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He was previously Vice President of Research and Development at WhizBang Labs, a company that used machine learning for information extraction from the Web. In the late 1990's he was a Research Scientist and Coordinator at Justsystem Pittsburgh Research Center. He was a post-doctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University after receiving his PhD from the University of Rochester in 1995. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Machine Learning Research. For the past eight years, McCallum has been active in research on statistical machine learning applied to text, especially information extraction, document classification, finite state models, and semi-supervised learning.
James A. Landay
James A. Landay is an Associate Professor in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, specializing in human-computer interaction. His current research interests include Automated Usability Evaluation, Demonstrational Interfaces, Ubiquitous Computing, User Interface Design Tools, and Web Design. He was previously the Laboratory Director of Intel Research Seattle, a university affiliated research lab that is exploring the new usage models, applications, and technology for ubiquitous computing.
Christopher James Langmead
Christopher James Langmead is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Langmead’s research focuses on the dynamics of biological processes. His group works on projects from two application domains: structural biology and systems biology. In the realm of structural biology, he is developing new methods for designing proteins and drugs. In the realm of systems biology, he is developing algorithms for improving the diagnosis and treatment of patients with a variety of illnesses including cancer, sepsis, and pancreatitis. Computationally, Professor Langmead’s work emphasizes the development of algorithms drawing on techniques from the fields of Machine Learning and Model Checking.
Oscar Garcia
Oscar Garcia is the Founding Dean of the College of Engineering at University of North Texas. Before his current engagement he was the NCR Endowed Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Wright State University (WSU). Garcia was former program director for Interactive Systems in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate at the National Science Foundation. He also served the NSF as program director for engineering in the Directorate for Education and Human Resources. Garcia's research interests are in complexity, bioinformatics, human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, expert systems and software engineering. He developed artificial intelligence and expert systems courses acclaimed in both the United States and Japan. His previous research includes advanced work in the areas of speech-driven facial animation, computer architecture and parallel processing, testing of digital circuits and arithmetic coding theory.
Jim Larus
James Larus is Director of Software Architecture for the Cloud Computing Futures team in Microsoft Research. Larus has been an active contributor to the programming languages, compiler, and computer architecture communities. He has published many papers and served on numerous program committees and NSF and NRC panels. Larus became an ACM Fellow in 2006. Before joining Microsoft, Larus was an Assistant and Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he published approximately 60 research papers and co-led the Wisconsin Wind Tunnel (WWT) research project with Professors Mark Hill and David Wood. WWT was a DARPA and NSF-funded project investigated new approaches to simulating, building, and programming parallel shared-memory computers. Larus’s research spanned a number of areas: including new and efficient techniques for measuring and recording executing programs’ behavior, tools for analyzing and manipulating compiled and linked programs, programming languages for parallel computing, tools for verifying program correctness, and techniques for compiler analysis and optimization.
Timothy M. Pinkston
Dr. Pinkston is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California where he heads the SMART Interconnects research group. He received his Ph.D. and Master's in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and his B.S.E.E. from The Ohio State University. Recently he served as a Program Director in the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering of the National Science Foundation where he directed research funding in the Computer Systems Architecture area and led the Expeditions in Computing program. His research interests are in the area of communication architectures for parallel computing systems, including multicore and multiprocessor systems. He is known for his contributions to the design and analysis of interconnection networks and routing algorithms, having published over 100 technical articles and book chapters on related topics. He is a recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the College of Engineering and the Minority Engineering Program of The Ohio State University and is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Stefan Savage
Stefan Savage joined the Jacobs School Computer Science and Engineering faculty in January 2001. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington where he focused both on network protocol design and operating system structuring. Savage was a co-founder of Seattle-based startup Asta Networks, which specialized in denial-of-service defenses, and of San Diego-based NetSift Inc, which developed high-speed network-based worm defenses (recently acquired by Cisco Systems). He continues to provide regular guidance to the public and private sectors relating to Internet security. His current research interests include automated network monitoring and defenses and a variety of problems related to 802.11-based wireless network design.
Martha E. Pollack
Martha Pollack is the Dean of the University of Michigan's School of Information. Her research has been in the area of Artificial Intelligence, with a focus both on foundational topics in plan generation, constraint-based temporal reasoning, adaptive interfaces, and natural-language processing, and on applications of AI to the design of assistive technology for people with cognitive impairment, a topic on which she has testified before the United States Senate Subcommitee on Aging. Pollack is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and has received the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award, an NSF Young Investigator's Award, the Univ. of Pittsburgh Chancellor's Distinguished Research Award, and the “time of time” award from AAMAS. She is currently President-Elect of AAAI, a member of Board of Directors of the CRA, and a member of the Advisory Committee of NSF’s CISE Directorate.
Peter Lee
Peter Lee is Professor and Head of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He has an extensive record of research contributions in areas related to software reliability, program analysis, security, and language design. Several of his papers have received "test of time" awards, such as the ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award, for seminal contributions to the field. As a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and incoming Chair of the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association, Peter Lee is called upon in diverse venues for his expertise in computing research and education.
M. Frans Kaashoek
M. Frans Kaashoek is a professor in MIT's EECS Department and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He received his PhD from the Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) for his work on group communication in the Amoeba distributed operating system. His principal field of interest is designing and building computer systems. Some of the current projects that he is working on with students include exokernels, an extensible operating system architecture, and SFS, a secure, decentralized global file system.
Roy Want
Roy Want is a Principal Engineer at Intel Research Santa Clara, California, and leader of the Ubiquity Group. He is responsible for exploring long-term strategic research opportunities in the area of Ubiquitous & Pervasive Computing. His interests include mobile computing, wireless protocols, hardware design, embedded systems, distributed systems, automatic identification (RFID), and micro electromechanical systems(MEMS). Want is also the author, or co-author, of more than 50 publications in the areas of mobile and distributed systems; and also holds 53 patents. He is very involved in the research community through program committees, invited talks at conferences, and is Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Pervasive Computing. He is also a Fellow of both the IEEE and ACM.
Thorna Humphries
Thorna Humphries is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Norfolk State University. She taught previously at Florida A&M University. Before joining the Florida A&M University faculty in 1990, Dr. Humphries was a Software Engineer at Wang Laboratories, Inc. She received the B.A.S. from Bennett College majoring in Mathematics. She received her M.S degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Cambridge, Massachusetts. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado. Professor Humphries’ research interest is directed toward the discovery of principles and developmental technologies to support the management and representation of data. Areas of interest include tools for evaluating performance on persistence object systems, data modeling, transaction models, and ambient intelligence. In her doctoral work, she investigated and developed an infrastructure to evaluate the performance of persistent object systems, which was funded by the National Science Foundation.
Beth Mynatt
Elizabeth Mynatt is associate professor in the College of Computing and director of the Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center (GVU) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The center hosts fifty-five faculty drawn from computer science, psychology, liberal arts, new media design, history of science and technology, engineering, architecture, management, and music. Mynatt played a pivotal role in creating the College of Computing Ph.D. program in Human-Centered Computing, integrating studies in human-computer interaction, learning sciences and technology, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, robotics, software engineering, and information security. In the last decade, Mynatt has directed a research program in ubiquitous computing and technologies adapted to everyday life. With work that began at Xerox PARC and has grown to fruition at Georgia Tech, she examines the pervasive presence of computation in everyday life. Mynatt earned her Bachelor of Science summa cum laude in computer science from North Carolina State University and her Master of Science and Ph.D. in computer science from Georgia Tech.
Martin Berzins
Martin Berzins is the Director of The University of Utah School of Computing. His previous engagement was at the University of Leeds in the UK where he was Professor of Scientific Computing and Research Dean for Engineering. He earned his PhD in Computer Science at Leeds in 1981. He has worked in the fields of mathematical software, numerical analysis, parallel computing and more recently problem solving environments and grid computing. Much of Martin's work has centered around solving challenging applications problems in computational fluid dynamics, combustion, atmospheric modeling and lubrication modeling.