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CIFellow | Primary Affiliation | Project Title | Mentor | Fellowship Institution | CIF Start Date |
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Alex Ahmed | Northeastern University | Envisioning Alternative Technologies with and for Home Care Workers | Sarah Fox | Carnegie Mellon University | Sep-20 |
Rika Antonova | KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm | Active Learning of Transferable Priors, Kernels and Latent Representations for Robotics | Jeannette Bohg | Stanford University | Jan-21 |
Evangelos Atlidakis | Columbia University | Fuzzing of RESTful Cloud Services | Vasileios Kemerlis | Brown University | Sep-20 |
Ramin Ayanzadeh | University of Maryland, Baltimore County | Leveraging AI to Improve the Fidelity of NISQ Computers | Moinuddin Qureshi | Georgia Institute of Technology | Sep-20 |
Marshall Ball | Columbia University | Towards more Granular Cryptographic Foundations | Huijia Lin | University of Washington | Jan-21 |
Suguman Bansal | Rice University | Formal Reasoning in Reinforcement Learning | Rajeev Alur | University of Pennsylvania | Sep-20 |
Aline Bessa | New York University Tandon School of Engineering | Augmenting Datasets for Model Improvement with Cost Constraints | Christopher Musco | New York University | Jan-21 |
Clara Caldeira | University of California, Irvine | Technology-mediated Caregiving for Older Adults in Different Cultural Contexts | Katherine Connelly | Indiana University Bloomington | Sep-20 |
Richard Canevez | Pennsylvania State University | Escalation and De-escalation in Expressions of Dissent: A Social Informatics Approach | Jenifer Sunrise Winter | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa | Jan-21 |
Marco Carmosino | University of California, San Diego | Foundations of Prosocial Desiderata | Mark Bun | Boston University | Sep-20 |
Kathryn Cunningham | University of Michigan | Improving Novice Programmer Self-efficacy with a Purpose-first Programming Learning Environment | Eleanor O’Rourke | Northwestern University | Jan-21 |
Wenhan Dai | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Quantum Communication and Networks | Donald Towsley | University of Massachusetts Amherst | Sep-20 |
Sunipa Dev | University of Utah | Understanding and Mitigating Societal Biases in Language Processing Models and their Applications | Kai-Wei Chang | University of California, Los Angeles | Jan-21 |
Michael Ann DeVito | Northwestern University | Folk Theories of Content Moderation in Online Groups: Evaluating the Impact of Moderator Perceptions on Group Policy and Moderation Tool Use | Jed Brubaker | University of Colorado Boulder | Jan-21 |
Yi Ding | University of Chicago | Improving System Efficiency and Reliability with Causal Learning | Michael Carbin | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Jan-21 |
Houda El mimouni | Drexel University | Mobile Remote Presence to Facilitate Safe University Reopening | Selma Šabanović | Indiana University Bloomington | Jan-21 |
Emmanuel Garza | California Institute of Technology | Design and Optimization of Nanophotonic Devices via High-Performance Boundary Integral Equation Solvers | Constantine Sideris | University of Southern California | Sep-20 |
Kari George | University of California, Los Angeles | Leveraging Doctoral Student Experiences to Inform Faculty Mentoring Practices that Broaden Participation in Computing | Colleen Lewis | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Sep-20 |
Amir Ghasemianlangroodi | University of Colorado Boulder | Sample Size Calculation and Power Analysis in Network-Based Experiments | Nicholas Christakis | Yale University | Jan-21 |
Nikolaos Giannarakis | Princeton University | Security and Privacy for Programmable Networks | Loris D’Antoni | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Sep-20 |
Shiry Ginosar | University of California, Berkeley | Toward Rich Perception of Human Motion | Jitendra Malik | University of California, Berkeley | Sep-20 |
Ben Greenman | Northeastern University | Human Factors for Gradual Typing | Shriram Krishnamurthi | Brown University | Jan-21 |
Biresh Kumar Joardar | Washington State University | Machine Learning for Machine Learning | Krishnendu Chakrabarty | Duke University | Sep-20 |
Gabriel Kaptchuk | Johns Hopkins University | Cryptography with Social Impact | Ran Canetti | Boston University | Sep-20 |
Vera Khovanskaya | Cornell University | Data Expertise in Worker Advocacy Cloud Data Management BrainDB | Lilly Irani | University of California, San Diego | Jan-21 |
Rafal Kocielnik | University of Washington | Informing Human-AI Interaction with User-Centered Metrics | Anima Anandkumar | California Institute of Technology | Jan-21 |
Deepak Kumar | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Incorporating User Experiences to Improve Automated Detection of Toxic Content Online | Zakir Durumeric | Stanford University | Sep-20 |
Taisa Kushner | University of Colorado Boulder | Personalized Modeling & Decisions Under Uncertainty for Medical Cyber Physical Systems | Peter Jacobs | Oregon Health & Science University | Sep-20 |
Qi Lei | University of Texas at Austin | On Understanding Few-Shot Learning, Provably | Jason Lee | Princeton University | Sep-20 |
Szu-Yu Liu | Indiana University Bloomington | From Data to Knowledge: Environmental Sensing and Data Narration | Paul Dourish | University of California, Irvine | Jan-21 |
Byron Lowens | Clemson University | An Exploration of Privacy Risk and Concerns For Emerging IOT Medical Devices Among Marginalized Populations | Florian Schaub | University of Michigan | Jan-21 |
Nicholas Lytle | North Carolina State University | Techniques for Adapting Student Programming Assignments to Promote Collaboration and Scaffold Learning during Remote Instruction | Kristy Boyer | University of Florida | Jan-21 |
Naja Mack | University of Florida | Investigating the Effectiveness of a Coding Bootcamp Preparation Program for African-American At-Risk Youth | Kinnis Gosha | Morehouse College | Jan-21 |
Lara Martin | Georgia Institute of Technology | What Stories Can Teach AI about the World | Chris Callison-Burch | University of Pennsylvania | Jan-21 |
David Narváez | Rochester Institute of Technology | Search versus Decision in AI | Lane A. Hemaspaandra | University of Rochester | Jan-21 |
Sabrina Neuman | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Automatic Generation of Hardware Accelerators for Robot Motion Planning | Vijay Janapa Reddi | Harvard University | Sep-20 |
Minh (Tan) Nguyen | Rice University | Predicting the Drug-Target Binding Affinity for Drug Repurposing with Drug-Structure-Aware Graph Neural Networks | Stan Osher | University of California, Los Angeles | Sep-20 |
Marziyeh Nourian | North Carolina State University | Hardware-software Co-design for High-Performance Data Transformation | Andrew Chien | University of Chicago | Jan-21 |
Ellen Novoseller | California Institute of Technology | Human-in-the-loop Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects | Ken Goldberg | University of California, Berkeley | Jan-21 |
Michael O’Neill | University of Wisconsin- Madison | Practical Algorithms for Smooth Nonconvex Optimization with Complexity Guarantees | Frank Curtis | Lehigh University | Sep-20 |
Zoe Paraskevopoulou | Princeton University | WebAssembly as Platform for Safe and Secure Language Interoperability | Amal Ahmed | Northeastern University | Jan-21 |
Beatrice Perez | University College London | Exploring and Securing Smart Environments | David Kotz | Dartmouth College | Sep-20 |
Brianna Posadas | University of Florida | Using Participation Design to Develop an Affordable and Flexible Robotic Assistive Technology for Agriculture | Kim Niewolny | Virginia Tech | Sep-20 |
Marlen Promann | Purdue University | Conceptualizing Data Work to Enhance the Future of Work in the USA | James Howison | University of Texas at Austin | Jan-21 |
Gokul Subramanian Ravi | University of Wisconsin- Madison | Architecting Classical Control for Near-term Quantum Systems | Frederic Chong | University of Chicago | Sep-20 |
Ibrahim Sabek | University of Minnesota | ML-based Storage and Query Execution in DBMS | Michael Cafarella | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Sep-20 |
Soheil Salehi Mobarakeh | University of Central Florida | SHIELD: Secure Hardware for IoT using Emerging-devices against side-channeL Deep-learning attacks | Houman Homayoun | University of California, Davis | Sep-20 |
Sebastian Schuster | Stanford University | Evaluating and Improving Pragmatic Reasoning by Neural Language Models | Tal Linzen | New York University | Jan-21 |
Amirbehshad Shahrasbi | Carnegie Mellon University | Error-correction and Computation | Madhu Sudan | Harvard University | Sep-20 |
Abigale Stangl | University of Texas at Austin | Safeguarding Private Visual Information | Leah Findlater | University of Washington | Jan-21 |
Minka Stoyanova | City University of Hong Kong | Activating Urban Space through Interactive and Augmented Reality Interfaces | Reece Auguiste | University of Colorado Boulder | Jan-21 |
Morgan Turner | Brown University | Developing Visualizations for Exploring Fossil Skeletal Morphology in the Context of Living Animal Motion Data | Daniel Keefe | University of Minnesota | Jan-21 |
Yu-Chun Yen | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | An Interactive Visualization Tool for Scaffolding Online Design Critique for Creative Education | Steven Dow | University of California, San Diego | Jan-21 |
Justin Yim | University of California, Berkeley | Legged Locomotion In Underbrush | Aaron Johnson | Carnegie Mellon University | Sep-20 |
Kianoosh Yousefi | University of Delaware | Multiscale Modeling of Hurricane Boundary-layer Flows | Marco Giometto | Columbia University | Jan-21 |
Alisa Yurovsky | Stony Brook University | Precise Compartment Deconvolution and Weight Estimation of Mixed Tissue Samples | Richard Moffitt | Stony Brook University | Jan-21 |
Yixue Zhao | University of Southern California | Improving Natural Language Feedback Quality | Yuriy Brun | University of Massachusetts | Jan-21 |
Pengfei Zheng | Duke University | AI Assisted Approaches for Learning AI Models at Massive Scale | Aditya Akella | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Sep-20 |
Tara Zimmerman | University of North Texas | Social Noise & Its Influence on Social Media Information Behavior | Kenneth Fleischmann | University of Texas | Sep-20 |