Announcing the 2020 Computing Innovation Fellows

This past spring, when hiring practices were rapidly changing due to COVID-19, the Computing Research Association (CRA) and its Computing Community Consortium (CCC) launched the CIFellows 2020 program, with strong support from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The program aims to provide a career-enhancing bridge experience for recent and soon-to-be PhD graduates in computing. This effort was inspired by the CRA/CCC’s NSF-funded Computing Innovation Fellows Programs with cohorts starting 2009, 2010, and 2011, which funded a total of 127 fellows after the 2008 recession. 

Many people invested their time and talents to our CIFellows 2020 program, including co-principal investigators on the NSF grant that funded the program: Andrew P. Bernat (CRA Executive Director), Elizabeth Bradley (CCC Chair), Ann Schwartz Drobnis (CCC Director), Mark D. Hill (CCC Chair Emeritus and CRA Board Member), and Ellen W. Zegura (PI and CRA Board Chair). Within one month of the program’s announcement, 550 applications were submitted covering a wide variety of research areas and over 140 universities. The applications were reviewed by more than 270 members of the community under a tight two week deadline. Thank you to the entire community for your involvement in promoting, mentoring, and reviewing applications for our recent graduates.  

CRA and CCC are extremely excited to announce the CIFellows for 2020! They comprise 59 diverse researchers covering a broad range of research areas in computing. The class of Fellows is 52% women, come from 46 universities, and will be beginning their fellowships at 43 different universities. Below is a listing of the 2020 CIFellows. You can find out more about each fellow and the program here.

CRA and CCC are working with the computing community to ensure that this program facilitates career and skill growth for the Fellows in supportive environments to foster the talent of the future computing research community.  Please join us in congratulating the new Fellows!

 

CIFellow	Primary Affiliation	Fellowship Institution	Mentor
Alex Ahmed	Northeastern University	Carnegie Mellon University	Sarah Fox
Rika Antonova	KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm	Stanford University	Jeannette Bohg
Evangelos Atlidakis	Columbia University	Brown University	Vasileios Kemerlis
Ramin Ayanzadeh	University of Maryland, Baltimore County	Georgia Institute of Technology	Moinuddin Qureshi
Maynard Ball	Columbia University	University of Washington	Huija Lin
Suguman Bansal	Rice University	University of Pennsylvania	Rajeev Alur
Aline Bessa	New York University Tandon School of Engineering	New York University	Christopher Musco
Clara Caldeira	University of California, Irvine	Indiana University Bloomington	Katherine Connelly
Richard Canevez	Pennsylvania State University	University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa	Jenifer Sunrise Winter
Marco Carmosino	Simon Fraser University	Boston University	Mark Bun
Kathryn Cunningham	University of Michigan	Northwestern University	Eleanor O’Rourke
Wenhan Dai	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	University of Massachusetts Amherst	Donald Towsley
Sunipa Dev	University of Utah	University of California, Los Angeles	Kai-Wei Chang
Michael Ann DeVito	Northwestern University	University of Colorado Boulder	Jed Brubaker
Yi Ding	University of Chicago	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Michael Carbin
Houda El mimouni	Drexel University	Indiana University Bloomington	Selma Šabanović
Emmanuel Garza	California Institute of Technology	University of Southern California	Constantine Sideris
Kari George	University of California, Los Angeles	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Colleen Lewis
Amir Ghasemianlangroodi	University of Colorado Boulder	Yale University	Nicholas Christakis
Nikolaos Giannarakis	Princeton University	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Loris D’Antoni
Shiry Ginosar	University of California, Berkeley	University of California, Berkeley	Jitendra Malik
Ben Greenman	Northeastern University	Brown University	Shriram Krishnamurthi
Biresh Kumar Joardar	Washington State University	Duke University	Krishnendu Chakrabarty
Gabriel Kaptchuk	Johns Hopkins University	Boston University	Ran Canetti
Vera Khovanskaya	Cornell University	University of California, San Diego	Lilly Irani
Rafal Kocielnik	University of Washington	California Institute of Technology	Anima Anandkumar
Deepak Kumar	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Stanford University	Zakir Durumeric
Taisa Kushner	University of Colorado Boulder	Oregon Health & Science University	Peter Jacobs
Qi Lei	University of Texas at Austin	Princeton University	Jason Lee
Szu-Yu Liu	Indiana University Bloomington	University of California, Irvine	Paul Dourish
Byron Lowens	Clemson University	University of Michigan	Florian Schaub
Nicholas Lytle	North Carolina State University	University of Florida	Kristy Boyer
Naja Mack	University of Florida	Morehouse College	Kinnis Gosha
Lara Martin	Georgia Institute of Technology	University of Pennsylvania	Chris Callison-Burch
David Narváez	Rochester Institute of Technology	University of Rochester	Lane A. Hemaspaandra
Sabrina Neuman	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Harvard University	Vijay Janapa Reddi
Minh (Tan) Nguyen	Rice University	University of California, Los Angeles	Stan Osher
Marziyeh Nourian	North Carolina State University	University of Chicago	Andrew Chien
Ellen Novoseller	California Institute of Technology	University of California, Berkeley	Ken Goldberg
Michael O’Neill	University of Wisconsin- Madison	Lehigh University	Frank Curtis
Zoe Paraskevopoulou	Princeton University	Northeastern University	Amal Ahmed
Beatrice Perez	University College London	Dartmouth College	David Kotz
Brianna Posadas	University of Florida	Virginia Tech	Kim Niewolny
Marlen Promann	Purdue University	University of Texas at Austin	James Howison
Gokul Subramanian Ravi	University of Wisconsin- Madison	University of Chicago	Frederic Chong
Ibrahim Sabek	University of Minnesota	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Michael Cafarella
Soheil Salehi Mobarakeh	University of Central Florida	University of California, Davis	Houman Homayoun
Sebastian Schuster	Stanford University	New York University	Tal Linzen
Amirbehshad Shahrasbi	Carnegie Mellon University	Harvard University	Madhu Sudan
Abigale Stangl	University of Texas at Austin	University of Washington	Leah Findlater
Minka Stoyanova	City University of Hong Kong	University of Colorado Boulder	Reece Auguiste
Morgan Turner	Brown University	University of Minnesota	Daniel Keefe
Yu-Chun Yen	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	University of California, San Diego	Steven Dow
Justin Yim	University of California, Berkeley	Carnegie Mellon University	Aaron Johnson
Kianoosh Yousefi	University of Delaware	Columbia University	Marco Giometto
Alisa Yurovsky	Stony Brook University	Stony Brook University	Richard Moffitt
Yixue Zhao	University of Southern California	University of Massachusetts	Yuriy Brun
Pengfei Zheng	Duke University	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Aditya Akella