Second International Workshop on
Personalized Networks
Keynote speaker
Sirin Tekinay
Program Director, National Science Foundation (NSF)
Associate Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
Abstract of the Talk
This talk not only introduces and discusses National Science Foundation initiatives and programs relevant to the workshop, but also seeks audience input for exemplary applications of their subtopics. These activities range from individual program elements to foundation-wide initiatives.
The directorate of Computer Information Systems and Engineering (CISE) of the National Science Foundation announced its "Clean Slate Internet" vision and initiative two years ago. The project, Global Environment for Networking Innovations (GENI), has been underway since then. Research programs around GENI have been formulated (Future Internet Design- FIND, Cyber Trust, and Science for Internet's Next Generation- SING) by different CISE organizations. However, a comprehensive research portfolio that will bring together wireless communications and sensor networking, social computing, network architecture, and mobility is on the drawing board of a CISE-wide team. Another CISE-led NSF-wide initiative is the Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) which has the following five components: Knowledge Extraction, Complex Interactions, Computational Experimentation, Virtual Environments, and Educating Researchers and Students.These themes call for projects at the interface of natural sciences, social sciences, computing, and engineering. Advanced networking research, including network science (as opposed to the art of networking) will be covered in "Complex Interactions."
Resume
Sirin Tekinay joined the Division of Computing and Communications Foundations (CCF), National Science Foundation as the Program Director for Theoretical Foundations in Communications Research in September 2005. She has been on faculty at Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, New Jersey Institute of Technology since 1997, where she is currently an associate professor.
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