NSF CISE: Where We Are and What We See on the Horizon

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Meeting ID: 951 8696 9010

Passcode: 165966

Abstract: The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) supports a majority of US academic research in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) topic areas. Since June, 2024, Dr. Gregory Hager has served as NSF CISE Assistant Director, stewarding the CISE directorate’s nearly $1B annual budget on behalf of research, education, workforce and infrastructure funding in CISE topic areas, and in support of the broader scientific community. In this talk, Dr. Hager will discuss current CISE programs and organization, and provide background and perspective on some of the new programs and topics that CISE is investing in. He will also offer some observations on emerging trends within the CISE community and invite discussion on how the community perceives and is responding to these trends.

Bio:   Gregory Hager is the US National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Assistant Director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE). With an annual budget of nearly $1B, the CISE directorate at NSF has the mission to uphold the Nation’s leadership in scientific discovery and engineering innovation through its support of fundamental research and education in computer and information science and engineering as well as transformative advances in research cyberinfrastructure. While at NSF, Dr. Hager is on leave from Johns Hopkins University where he is the Mandell Bellmore Professor of Computer Science. Dr. Hager’s research interests are in computer vision and robotics, with applications in medicine and manufacturing. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) Society, and the American Institute for Biological Engineering (AIMBE).