2020 Career Mentoring Workshop

February 27-28, 2020

Conrad Washington DC
950 New York Ave NW, Washington, DC, USA

Overview

The eleventh biennial Career Mentoring Workshop was held by the Computing Research Association on February 27 and 28, 2020 in Washington, DC. This exciting workshop provides advice and mentoring activities for those starting an academic computing research career. Most attendees are in their first or second year as assistant professors. The workshop, consisting of a series of panels, is interspersed with opportunities to network with senior researchers and representatives from government agencies.

Agenda Topics:
Planning Your Research Career
Networking: Building Your Research Village
Teaching
Mentoring and Managing Students
Preparing a Tenure Dossier
Time Management and Work-life Balance
Advice from Early Career Faculty

Reception with CRA Board Members and Leadership Summit Participants
Speed Networking

Research Funding Overviews from DARPA, NIH, and Industry
How to Write a Good Proposal

Overview of NSF and CISE
Hearing from NSF/CISE Division Directors
Small-Group Meetings with NSF/CISE Program Directors

Agenda

February 27, 2020 (Thursday)

07:00 AM	Registration \| Outside Grand Ballroom C & D
07:00 AM	Breakfast \| Grand Ballroom A & B
08:15 AM	Welcome/Overview \| Grand Ballroom C & D Carla Brodley, Northeastern Dan Grossman, University of Washington Andrew Bernat, CRA Ellen Zegura, CRA Board Chair
08:30 AM	Planning Your Research Career \| Grand Ballroom C & D Rachel Pottinger, University of British Columbia Barbara Ryder, Virginia Tech
09:15 AM	Career Networking \| Grand Ballroom C & D James Allan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Charles Isbell, Georgia Tech
10:00 AM	Break \| Gallery Grand Ballroom
10:30 AM	Teaching \| Grand Ballroom C & D Ran Libeskind-Hadas, Harvey Mudd College Ellen Zegura, Georgia Tech
11:15 AM	Mentoring and Managing Students \| Grand Ballroom C & D Mary Hall, University of Utah Mark Hill, University of Wisconsin
12:00 PM	Lunch \| Grand Ballroom A & B
01:00 PM	Preparing a Tenure Dossier \| Grand Ballroom C & D Greg Morrisett, Cornell University Vivek Sarkar, Georgia Tech
01:45 PM	Time Management and Work-Life Balance \| Grand Ballroom C & D Carla Brodley, Northeastern Dan Grossman, University of Washington
02:30 PM	Advice From Early Career Faculty \| Grand Ballroom C & D Michael Carbin, MIT Nicola Dell, Cornell University Chris Parnin, North Carolina State University Byron Wallace, Northeastern University
03:30 PM	Reception with CRA Board Members and Leadership Summit Participants Begins \| Gallery Falling Flowers
03:50 PM	Speed-networking Event Begins \| Grand Ballroom C & D
04:40 PM	Speed-networking Event Ends, Reception Continues \| Gallery Falling Flowers
05:30 PM	Reception Ends

February 28, 2020 (Friday)

07:30 AM	Breakfast \| Grand Ballroom A & B
08:30 AM	Research Funding Overviews \| Grand Ballroom C & D Jaime Teevan, Microsoft Bill Scherlis, DARPA
09:30 AM	Coffee Break \| Gallery Grand Ballroom
10:00 AM	How to Write a Good Proposal \| Grand Ballroom C & D Nancy Amato, University of Illinois Susanne Hambrusch, Purdue University
11:00 AM	Overview of NSF and CISE \| Grand Ballroom C & D Margaret Martonosi, NSF CISE AD
11:45 AM	Lunch (on own)
01:00 PM	NSF/CISE Division Directors \| Grand Ballroom C & D CCF: – Division talk: Rance Cleaveland, Division Director – CIF: Phil Regalia – FET: Mitra Basu – SHF: Sankar Basu CNS: – Division talk: Gurdip Singh – CSR: Matt Mutka, Mimi McClure – CPS, S&CC: Ralph Wachter, Michal Ziv-El – NeTS: Alex Sprintson – SaTC: Indrajit Ray IIS: – Division talk: TBD – CHS, FW-HTF: Balakrishnan (Prabha) Prabhakaran – III: Amarda Shehu – RI, NRI-2.0, Foundational Robotics, AI Institutes: Rebecca Hwa OAC: – Division talk: Manish Parashar, Office Director – Alan Sussman
01:45 PM	Small-group meetings with NSF/CISE Program Directors \| Grand Ballroom A & B
03:30 PM	Workshop Adjourn

2020 Career Mentoring Workshop

February 27-28, 2020

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