Revealing the 2020 Computing Development Fellows
This previous spring, when employing practices were rapidly altering due to COVID-19, the (CRA) and its (CCC) released the , with strong assistance from the (NSF). The program intends to provide a career-enhancing bridge experience for recent and soon-to-be PhD graduates in computing. This effort was inspired by the , which moneyed an overall of 127 fellows after the 2008 economic crisis.
Lots of people invested their time and talents to our CIFellows 2020 program, consisting of co-principal private investigators on the NSF grant that funded the program: Andrew P. Bernat (CRA Executive Director), Elizabeth Bradley (CCC Chair), Ann Schwartz Drobnis (CCC Director), Mark D. Hill (CCC Chair Emeritus and CRA Board Member), and Ellen W. Zegura (PI and CRA Board Chair). Within one month of the program’s announcement, 550 applications were submitted covering a wide array of research study locations and over 140 universities. The applications were evaluated by more than 270 members of the community unfder a tight 2 week due date. Thank you to the whole community for your involvement in promoting, mentoring, and reviewing applications for our recent graduates.
CRA and CCC are incredibly delighted to reveal the CIFellows for 2020! They consist of 59 diverse scientists covering a broad range of research study areas in computing. The class of Fellows is 52% females, originated from 46 universities, and will be beginning their fellowships at 43 various universities. Below is a listing of the 2020 CIFellows. You can learn more about each fellow and the program .
CRA and CCC are working with the computing community to guarantee that this program assists in career and ability development for the Fellows in supportive environments to promote the skill of the future computing research community. Please join us in congratulating the new Fellows!
| CIFellow | Ph.D Organization | Fellowship Organization | Coach |
| Alex Ahmed | Northeastern University | Carnegie Mellon University | Sarah Fox |
| Rika Antonova | KTH Royal Institute of Innovation in Stockholm | Stanford University | Jeannette Bohg |
| Evangelos Atlidakis | Columbia University | Brown University | Vasileios Kemerlis |
| Ramin Ayanzadeh | University of Maryland, Baltimore County | Georgia Institute of Technology | Moinuddin Qureshi |
| Maynard Ball | Columbia University | University of Washington | Huija Lin |
| Suguman Bansal | Rice University | University of Pennsylvania | Rajeev Alur |
| Aline Bessa | New York City University Tandon School of Engineering | New York City University | Christopher Musco |
| Clara Caldeira | University of California, Irvine | Indiana University Bloomington | Katherine Connelly |
| Richard Canevez | Pennsylvania State University | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa | Jenifer Daybreak Winter Season |
| Marco Carmosino | University of California, San Diego | Boston University | Mark Bun |
| Kathryn Cunningham | University of Michigan | Northwestern University | Eleanor O’Rourke |
| Wenhan Dai | Massachusetts Institute of Innovation | University of Massachusetts Amherst | Donald Towsley |
| Sunipa Dev | University of Utah | University of California, Los Angeles | Kai-Wei Chang |
| Michael Ann DeVito | Northwestern University | University of Colorado Stone | Jed Brubaker |
| Yi Ding | University of Chicago | Massachusetts Institute of Innovation | Michael Carbin |
| Houda El mimouni | Drexel University | Indiana University Bloomington | Selma Šabanović |
| Emmanuel Garza | California Institute of Technology | University of Southern California | Constantine Sideris |
| Kari George | University of California, Los Angeles | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Colleen Lewis |
| Amir Ghasemianlangroodi | University of Colorado Boulder | Yale University | Nicholas Christakis |
| Nikolaos Giannarakis | Princeton University | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Loris D’Antoni |
| Shiry Ginosar | University of California, Berkeley | University of California, Berkeley | Jitendra Malik |
| Ben Greenman | Northeastern University | Brown University | Shriram Krishnamurthi |
| Biresh Kumar Joardar | Washington State University | Duke University | Krishnendu Chakrabarty |
| Gabriel Kaptchuk | Johns Hopkins University | Boston University | Ran Canetti |
| Vera Khovanskaya | Cornell University | University of California, San Diego | Lilly Irani |
| Rafal Kocielnik | University of Washington | California Institute of Innovation | Anima Anandkumar |
| Deepak Kumar | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Stanford University | Zakir Durumeric |
| Taisa Kushner | University of Colorado Stone | Oregon Health & & Science University | Peter Jacobs |
| Qi Lei | University of Texas at Austin | Princeton University | Jason Lee |
| Szu-Yu Liu | Indiana University Bloomington | University of California, Irvine | Paul Dourish |
| Byron Lowens | Clemson University | University of Michigan | Florian Schaub |
| Nicholas Lytle | North Carolina State University | University of Florida | Kristy Boyer |
| Lara Martin | Georgia Institute of Technology | University of Pennsylvania | Chris Callison-Burch |
| David Narváez | Rochester Institute of Technology | University of Rochester | Lane A. Hemaspaandra |
| Sabrina Neuman | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Harvard University | Vijay Janapa Reddi |
| Minh (Tan) Nguyen | Rice University | University of California, Los Angeles | Stan Osher |
| Marziyeh Nourian | North Carolina State University | University of Chicago | Andrew Chien |
| Ellen Novoseller | California Institute of Technology | University of California, Berkeley | Ken Goldberg |
| Michael O’Neill | University of Wisconsin- Madison | Lehigh University | Frank Curtis |
| Zoe Paraskevopoulou | Princeton University | Northeastern University | Amal Ahmed |
| Beatrice Perez | University College London | Dartmouth College | David Kotz |
| Brianna Posadas | University of Florida | Virginia Tech | Kim Niewolny |
| Marlen Promann | Purdue University | University of Texas at Austin | James Howison |
| Gokul Subramanian Ravi | University of Wisconsin- Madison | University of Chicago | Frederic Chong |
| Ibrahim Sabek | University of Minnesota | Massachusetts Institute of Innovation | Michael Cafarella |
| Soheil Salehi Mobarakeh | University of Central Florida | University of California, Davis | Houman Homayoun |
| Sebastian Schuster | Stanford University | New York City University | Tal Linzen |
| Amirbehshad Shahrasbi | Carnegie Mellon University | Harvard University | Madhu Sudan |
| Abigale Stangl | University of Texas at Austin | University of Washington | Leah Findlater |
| Minka Stoyanova | City University of Hong Kong | University of Colorado Stone | Reece Auguiste |
| Morgan Turner | Brown University | University of Minnesota | Daniel Keefe |
| Yu-Chun Yen | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | University of California, San Diego | Steven Dow |
| Justin Yim | University of California, Berkeley | Carnegie Mellon University | Aaron Johnson |
| Kianoosh Yousefi | University of Delaware | Columbia University | Marco Giometto |
| Alisa Yurovsky | Stony Brook University | Stony Brook University | Richard Moffitt |
| Yixue Zhao | University of Southern California | University of Massachusetts | Yuriy Brun |
| Pengfei Zheng | Duke University | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Aditya Akella |