Huzefa
Rangwala and Amarda Shehu of the VSE Computer Science Department
are the hosts
for the NSF/CISE CAREER Workshop in 2014. This is likely to be of interest to junior faculty who are
considering submitting a proposal to this program, particularly if
they plan to
submit to programs in the CISE directorate.
If
you wish to participate, then you need to register. The
registration opens
today, and the deadline for registration is February 21.For further information, see
the above URL.The
workshop will be held in Arlington, VA.
Douglas
Corner, Michael Hieb, and Mark
Pullen win NATO Award
Douglas
Corner, Michael Hieb, and Mark Pullen of the C4I Center were
selected to
receive the Science & Technology Organization (STO) 2013
Scientific
Achievement Award from NATO.The
announcement
states:
“This
Award recognizes exceptional effort in significant STO activities,
excellence
and originality in the scientific and technical content therein,
outstanding
results in terms of military benefit and, since it was about a
team award,
quality and degree of collaboration.”
Danny
Menascé is Finalist for SCHEV
Faculty Award
Danny
Menascé was a finalist for the 2014 Outstanding Faculty Award from
SCHEV.The announcement
letter states:
“Though
your nomination was not ultimately selected by the Final Selection
Committee as
one of the 12 award recipients from across the Commonwealth, your
accomplishments were so remarkable that your nomination was one of
only 28 that
made it to the final selection process – a process based on peer
review scores.
“I
hope that you will take pride in the fact that your institution
chose to
highlight your obvious talents as a faculty member and that your
application stood
out among this year’s 115 nominations. On behalf of the Final
Selection
Committee, I encourage you to resubmit your nomination in the
future.”
Danny
was the only Mason nominee to be chosen as a finalist.
2014
SAS Fellowship Opportunities for
Ph.D. Students
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are contacting you about various fellowship opportunities where we
are seeking
PhD students to work at SAS Institute during the summer of 2014.
The
SAS Fellow will work at SAS Corporate headquarters in Cary, North
Carolina for
12 weeks during the summer of 2014, and will receive a salary and
a stipend for
living expenses during his/her employment.The fellowship opportunities are open to doctoral
candidates studying in
the United States with at least 2 years of graduate studies
completed by the
end of the spring 2014 semester.
Interested
PhD candidates will need to:
Apply
online at http://www.sas.com/jobs/USjobs/ (Click on Fellowship
Opportunities)
for each position of interest by February 1, 2014, and
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that 2 faculty members from the university/college he/she is
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The
student(s) selected as the SAS Fellow to fill these vacancies will
be notified
by March 1, 2014.
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share the URL to our website at http://www.sas.com/jobs/USjobs/ (Click on
Fellowship Opportunities) with PhD students in your program.
We
look forward to receiving applications from your students.
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fellows in the
following disciplines: Data
Mining, Economics
Technology, Operations Research, Revenue Management and Price
Optimization, Statistics.]
The
STEM-C (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics,
including Computing)
Partnerships program is a major research and development effort of
two NSF
Directorates, the Directorate for Education and Human Resources
(EHR) and the
Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering
(CISE), which
supports innovative partnerships to improve teaching and learning
in science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines.
STEM-C
Partnerships combines and advances the efforts of both the former
Math and
Science Partnership (MSP) and the former Computing Education for
the 21st
Century (CE21) programs.
It
is critical that our nation maintain a competent, competitive and
creative STEM
workforce, including teachers. Therefore, NSF aims to inspire and
motivate the
next generation of that workforce, while ensuring that it has the
skills,
competencies, and preparation to be successful. As we transition
to a global,
knowledge-based economy that is often driven by information
technology and
innovation, it is increasingly important that STEM workforce
preparation
includes a strong foundation in computing. Thus, the STEM-C
Partnerships
program addresses both the need for advances in K-12 STEM
education generally,
as well as the need to elevate the inclusion of computer science
education.
Funding
Opportunity: Scientific Data
Management, Analysis & Visualization (DOE)
Scientific
Data Management, Analysis and Visualization at Extreme Scale Department/Agency:Department of Energy, Office
of Science
Summary:The Office of Advanced
Scientific Computing
Research (ASCR) in the Office of Science (SC), U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE),
hereby invites applications for basic research that significantly
advances
management, analysis and visualization of data in disciplines
supported by DOE
in the context of emerging architectures for extreme scale
computing platforms.
The purpose of this announcement is to invite applications for
basic computer
science research on five major themes:
Usability
and user interface design;
In
situ methods for data management, analysis and visualization;
Design
of in situ workflows to support data management, processing,
analysis and
visualization;
New
approaches to scalable interactive visual analytic
environments; and/or
Proxy
applications or workflows and/or simulations for data
management, analysis and
visualization software to support co-design of extreme scale
systems.
Estimated
Number of Awards:10-15
Funding
Opportunity: Commonwealth
Research Commercialization Fund – CRCF (CIT)
In
this second of two FY2014 solicitations, CRCF offers six programs
targeting
Virginia's public and private colleges and universities, the
private sector,
nonprofit research institutions, and political subdivisions.
Programs offered
this round are: Commercialization, Eminent Researcher Recruitment,
Facilities
Enhancement Loan, Matching Funds, SBIR Matching Funds, and STTR
Matching Funds.
Details on these programs, including eligibility requirements and
submission
caps, are provided in program-specific guidelines.
Kathleen
Wage of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
received $6K from
the Office of Naval Research for her project “Partial Underwriting
for the 2013
IEEE Underwater Acoustic Signal Processing Workshop”.
Nathalia
Peixoto, John Cressman, &
Tim Sauer Receive Funding from NSF
Nathalia
Peixoto of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department,
John Cressman
of the Krasnow Institute, and Tim Sauer of the Mathematical
Sciences Department
received $360K from the National Science Foundation for their
project “Identification
and Control for Pattern Steering in Dynamical Networks”.
Kun
Sun Receives Funding from University
of Washington and US Dept. of the Army
Kun
Sun of the Center for Secure Information Systems received $115K
from the University
of Washington and the U.S. Department of the Army for his project
“Modeling and
Analysis of Moving Target Defense Mechanisms in MANET”.
Shanjiang
Zhu and Mohan Venigalla
Receive Funding from SUNY and US DOT
Shanjiang
Zhu and Mohan Venigalla of the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of
Civil,
Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering received $191K from
the Research
Foundation for the State University of New York and the U.S.
Department of
Transportation for their project “Transportation Informatics
University
Transportation Center (TransInfo UTC): Harnessing the Power of Big
Data in
Support of USDOT Strategic Goals”.
Rao
Mulpuri Receives Funding from NSF
Rao
Mulpuri of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
received $160K
from the National Science Foundation for his project “A Novel
GaN/AlGaN
Nanostructure Room-Temperature Sensor for Security Applications”.
Damon
McCoy Receives Funding from NSF
Damon
McCoy of the Computer Science Department received $112K from the
National Science
Foundation for his project “Ideas Lab: Interdisciplinary Pathways
towards a
Secure Internet”.
Gheorge
Tecuci, Mihai Boicu, and Dorin
Marcu Receive Funding from Oculus Info
Gheorge
Tecuci, Mihai Boicu, and Dorin Marcu of the Learning Agents Center
received
$250K from Oculus Info, Inc., for their project “nSpace2 TIACRITIS
Service
Integration”.
Ken
Hintz is Issued a Patent
Ken
Hintz of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department was
issued the
following patent by the US PTO.
Title:
Cavity Detection Inventors:
Kenneth J. Hintz Number:
8,599,061 B2 Issue
date: December 3, 2013.
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