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NSF CISE MSI Workshop

Program for NSF CISE-MSI Aspiring PI Workshop

In-Person Agenda - Day 1

Timeslot	Agenda
8:00am-9:00 am	Breakfast
9:00am -9:15am	Opening - Greetings from Provost McPherson (UNT)
9:15am-10:15am	Keynote: CISE Research Expansion: Landscape and Opportunities Subrata Acharya, Ph.D., Lead Program Officer Computer and Information Science and Engineering U.S. National Science Foundation
10:15am-10:30am	Break
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)
12:00pm-1:30pm	Lunch and networking (Research partnerships: Informal networking opportunities with topic-specific table settings
1:30pm-2:30pm	Informational Session (Training: Emphasizing Intellectual Merit (IM) and Broad Impact (BI) criteria, and strategies for identifying and presenting high-quality IM & BI by NSF Program Directors)
2:30pm-2:45pm	Break
2:45pm-4:15pm	Breakout Session II (Research partnership: Brainstorming with potential collaborators identified in Breakout Session I and during Lunch)
4:15pm-4:30pm	Break
4:30pm-5:00pm	Breakout Session Report (Research partnership: Presenting proposal team information: tentative team members, research topics, etc.)
5:00pm-6:00pm	Lightning Talks (Research partnership)

In-Person Agenda - Day 2

Timeslot	Agenda
8:00am-9:00 am	Breakfast
9:00am -10:00am	Informational Session (Training: Keynote on structuring and writing high-quality NSF proposals by by Prof. Yiran Chen, Director of NSF Athena AI Institute, Professor, Duke University)
10:00am-10:15am	Break
10:15am-11:45am	Breakout Session III ( Research Partnership : proposal team meeting with mentors to discuss research proposal ideas and develop the proposal preparation plans)
11:45am-12:15pm	Breakout Session Report (Research partnership: present of team information, topic, and plan)
12:15pm-1:30pm	Lunch
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 wor kshop)
3:30pm-4:00pm	Closing remark and announcement of deliverables for the next workshop

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)