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