Program

Program for NSF CISE-MSI Aspiring PI Workshop

In-Person Agenda - Day 1
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8:30am-9:00 am Registeration
9:00am -9:15am Opening -Welcome by UNT Provost, Dr. Michael McPherson  Session Chairs: Sharad Sharma, Kewei Sha, Peter Clarke
9:15am-10:15am

Keynote: CISE Research Expansion: Landscape and Opportunities
Speaker: Subrata Acharya, Ph.D, Lead Program Officer
Computer and Information Science and Engineering
U.S. National Science Foundation

Session Chair: Sharad Sharma

10:15am-10:30amBreak
10:30am-12:00pm

Breakout Session I (Research partnerships: Research topic-based breakout session – Understanding potential partner’s research interest and expertise. Each participant will engage with at least two topic groups, rotating every 30 minutes)

Session Chair: Peter Clarke  

12:00pm-1:30pm

Keynote at Lunch (Keynote: CISE Research Expansion program, Speaker: Dr. Abraham Matta, Program Officer, NSF, keynote starting at 12:45 pm)

Session Chair: Kewei Sha

1:30pm-2:30pm Informational Session (Panel: Strategies for Identifying and Presenting High-quality Intellectual Merit (IM) and Broad Impacts (BI), Moderator: Dr. James Fowler (NSF), Panelists: Dr. Abraham Matta (NSF), Dr. Fan Wu (Tuskegee University), Dr. Michelle Rogers (Drexel University), Dr. Danda B. Rawat (Howard University))  
2:30pm-2:45pmBreak
2:45pm-4:15pm

Breakout Session II (Research partnership: Brainstorming with potential collaborators identified in Breakout Session I and during Lunch) – team formation, introduce mentors at the end of the session (Danda Rawat, Fan Wu, Michelle Rogers).
Session Chair: Peter Clarke

4:15pm-4:30pmBreak
4:30pm-5:00pm

Breakout Session Report (Research partnership: Presenting proposal team information: tentative team members, research topics, etc.)
Session Chair: Peter Clarke

5:00pm-6:00pm

Lightning Talks (Research partnership)

Session Chair: Sahara Ali

In-Person Agenda - Day 2
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8:30am-8:45 am Check-in
8:45am -10:00am

Keynote: Structuring and writing high-quality NSF proposals, Speaker: Prof. Yiran Chen, John Cocke Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director of Athena AI Institute, Duke University.

Session Chair:  Kewei Sha

10:00am-10:15amBreak
10:15am-11:45am

Breakout Session III (Research Partnership : proposal team meeting with mentors (Danda Rawat, Fan Wu, Michelle Rogers) to discuss research proposal ideas and develop the proposal preparation plans)

Session Chair: Sharad Sharma

11:45am-12:15pm

Breakout Session Report (Research partnership: present of team information, topic, and plan)

Session Chair: Peter Clarke

12:15pm-1:30pmLunch with NSF PDs
1:30pm-3:30pm

Breakout Proposal Working Session (Research partnership: Proposal team refining project ideas and proposal writing agenda, identifying the tasks prior to the second workshop)

Session Chair: Peter Clarke

3:30pm-4:00pm

Closing remark and announcement of deliverables for the next workshop.

Session Chairs: Sharad Sharma, Kewei Sha, Peter Clarke 

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Contact

Sponsor

Support

Dr. Kewei Sha, Associate Professor of Data Science, University of North Texas (UNT)

Dr. Sharad Sharma, Professor of Data Science, University of North Texas (UNT)

Dr. Peter J. Clarke, Associate Professor, Florida International University (FIU)