NSF Letter to CISE Community

Dear CISE community.

On June 21, as part of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the US, our NSF building in Alexandria, Virginia was the venue for a conversation between Prime Minister Modi and US First Lady Dr. Jill Biden on technology, education, and workforce. It was exciting for me to be present for this visit, which allowed NSF to showcase how our efforts are catalyzing research opportunities and career pathways for the next generation of scientists and innovators.

Please also note NSF’s current US-India funding opportunity, which supports collaborative research involving US-based and India-based researchers on all aspects of computing, communications, and information science and engineering, advanced cyberinfrastructure, secure and trustworthy computing, and cyber-physical systems. You can learn more by joining the next informational webinar on July 11.

A second important item of note is the National AI Strategy.  First, the US recently released the 2023 update to the National AI R&D Strategy (first released in 2016, and later updated in 2019).  Second, this document will now feed into a larger and broader process towards an overall National AI Strategy. This broader strategy document will consider AI’s impacts on many aspects of government and society, beyond the R&D focus. If you would like to offer input towards the strategy, please respond to the Request for Information (RFI) by July 7.

Finally, I was pleased to participate as a plenary speaker in this year’s ACM Federated Computing Research Conference (FCRC). Held every four years, ACM FCRC brought together over 2500 researchers via co-locating over a dozen different ACM research conferences. My presentation focused on how working together across traditional topical boundaries will be key to progress on societal challenges. Entitled “Taking on the World’s Challenges: The Role of Computing Research and Innovation”, the talk recording is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS9Xk0nTW04, minute seven. Please take a look and let me know what you think!