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The National Medal of Science (NMS) is the highest recognition the Nation can bestow on scientists and engineers. It was established by the 86th Congress in 1959 as a Presidential Award to be given to individuals deserving of special recognition by reason of their outstanding contributions to knowledge in the physical, biological, mathematical, engineering, or social and behavioral sciences, in service to the Nation. These broad areas include such disciplines as astronomy, chemistry, computer and information science and engineering, geoscience, materials research, and research on STEM education.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is seeking nominations for the NMS from February 3 through May 5, 2024. We welcome you to join us for an informational webinar on the National Medal of Science. The webinar will highlight background information on the award and provide tips for submitting nominations. The webinar will be held on March 12, 2024 at 11:00 AM Eastern daylight time (US and Canada). Register in advance for this webinar.

See the NMS Nominations web page for more information on how to make your nominations.

Register for the event below:
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You can also learn more about the National Medal of Science at https://new.nsf.gov/od/honorary-awards/national-medal-of-science.

Ε.Ε.Φα.Μ. Newsletter:Προκαταρκτικό πρόγραμμα του 14ου Συνεδρίου Φαρμακευτικού Management

Γκριγκόρι Γιακόβλεβιτς Πέρελμαν: ένα ΥΠΕΡΟΧΟ ανθρώπινο μυαλό, ΕΝΑΣ ΥΠΕΡΟΧΟΣ ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΣ

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Είναι ο Μαθηματικός Μάγος Γκριγκόρι Γιακόβλεβιτς Πέρελμαν. Έλυσε ένα από τα μεγαλύτερα μαθηματικά προβλήματα στον κόσμο.

Εθεάθη και φωτογραφήθηκε στο μετρό της πόλης από Ρώσο blogger, εμφανίζεται στις φωτογραφίες με ανατριχιασμένα μαλλιά, γενειάδα και παλιά παπούτσια σχεδόν σαν να ήταν άστεγος ή ζητιάνος. Το Ινστιτούτο Clay ανακοίνωσε την απονομή 1 εκατομμυρίου δολαρίων στον Perelman σχετικά με την εικασία Poincaré, την οποία ο μαθηματικός απέρριψε λέγοντας: «Αν η λύση είναι η σωστή, δεν χρειάζεται άλλο βραβείο.
Ο Διδάκτωρ των μαθηματικών Περελμάν έγινε ο πρώτος επιστήμονας που αρνήθηκε να παραλάβει το θεωρούμενο ως Νόμπελ των μαθηματικών Μετάλλιο Φιλντς το 2006 λέγοντας: «Τα χρήματα ή η δόξα δεν με ενδιαφέρουν. Δεν θέλω να με επιδεικνύουν όπως ένα ζώο σε ζωολογικό κήπο. Δεν είμαι ένας ήρωας των μαθηματικών. Δεν είμαι καν επιτυχημένος· γι' αυτό δεν θέλω να βρεθώ στη θέση του να πρέπει να με κοιτάνε όλοι» Ο Περελμάν, αρνήθηκε να παραλάβει εκτός από το μετάλλιο Φιλντς το 2006, άλλα δύο βραβεία: το βραβείο της Ευρωπαϊκής μαθηματικής εταιρείας το 1996 και το βραβείο της χιλιετηρίδας (αγγλ: Millennium Prize) το 2010 από το Ινστιτούτο Clay Mathematics
Για να αντιληφθεί κανείς πόσο περίπλοκη ήταν η εικασία του Πουανκαρέ, αρκεί να αναφέρουμε ότι ιδιοφυείς μαθηματικοί χρειάστηκε να εργαστούν επί τέσσερα χρόνια για να ελέγξουν την εγκυρότητα της απόδειξης του Περελμάν. Εκτιμάται ότι η επιβεβαίωση της λύσης του γρίφου θα συμβάλει καθοριστικά στην κατανόηση που έχουμε για τον χώρο, ακόμη και στη γνώση μας για το «σχήμα» του σύμπαντος
Σε μια σπάνια συνέντευξή του στην καθημερινή εφημερίδα «Κομσομόλσκαγια Πράβντα» διηγήθηκε ότι προσπάθησε να καταλάβει πώς ο Ιησούς περπάτησε πάνω στο νερό: «προσπαθούσα να υπολογίσω την ταχύτητα με την οποία περπατούσε πάνω στο νερό», δήλωσε. Εξήγησε επίσης ότι αρνήθηκε την αμοιβή του ενός εκατομμυρίου δολαρίων του Ινστιτούτου Clay Mathematics για τη λύση του προβλήματος του Ανρί Πουανκαρέ, γιατί όπως είπε «γνωρίζω πώς να κυβερνήσω το σύμπαν· γιατί να τρέξω πίσω από ένα εκατομμύριο δολάρια;»
Είναι ακόμη ιδιαίτερο το γεγονός ότι τα τρία άρθρα που συνέταξε όσον αφορά την απόδειξη της περίφημης «εικασίας», τα ανήρτησε στην ιστοσελίδα ελεύθερης διακίνησης επιστημονικών άρθρων του αμερικανικού πανεπιστημίου Κορνέλ αντί να καταθέσει την εργασία του σε ένα έγκυρο επιστημονικό περιοδικό με αξιολόγηση από ομότιμους κριτές
” Μέχρι στιγμής η Εικασία Πουανκαρέ και η απόδειξή της παραμένει τα μόνα προβλήματα της Χιλιετίας που έχουν λυθεί.
Ο Perelman έχει απορρίψει τον νόμιμο χώρο του στις δομές της σύγχρονης επιστήμης, παρόλο που έχει γίνει ο νούμερο ένα μαθηματικός στον κόσμο. Απορρίπτει κάθε επαφή με συναδέλφους.
Η ζωή αποδεικνύει ότι τα μεγάλα επιτεύγματα στην επιστήμη συχνά σημαίνουν μοναξιά. Στην πόλη της Αγίας Πετρούπολης μπορείς να συναντήσεις νέους με μπλουζάκια με την εικόνα του Perelman και τη γραφή: «Δεν αγοράζονται όλα».
Αγνοώντας τους κανόνες συμπεριφοράς της επιστημονικής κοινότητας, ο Perelman πέτυχε τη μέγιστη αποτελεσματικότητα του έργου του συνεχίζοντας να ζει μια ζωή ερημίτη, στη μοναξιά.

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The National Medal of Science Informational Webinar   March 21, 2023 ~ 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm Eastern Time (US and Canada) The National Medal of Science (NMS) is the highest recognition the Nation can bestow on scientists and engineers. It was established by the 86th Congress in 1959 as a Presidential Award to be given to individuals deserving of special recognition by reason of their outstanding contributions to knowledge in the physical, biological, mathematical, engineering, or social and behavioral sciences, in service to the Nation. These broad areas include such disciplines as astronomy, chemistry, computer and information science and engineering, geoscience, materials research, and research on STEM education. The National Science Foundation (NSF) is seeking nominations for the NMS from February 6 to May 26, 2023. We welcome you to join us for an informational webinar on the National Medal of Science. The webinar will highlight background information on the award and provide tips for submitting nominations. The webinar will be held on March 21, 2023 at 3:00 pm Eastern time (US and Canada). Register in advance for this webinar: https://nsf.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_bUoyRLHuTQOQG3u9OtSNEw For real-time close captions during the event, please follow the link:  https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=JobNo.22669-NSF-Medal.of.Science.Webinar The nomination portal is accessed through the following link: https://honorary-awards.nsf.gov. For more information, please visit the NMS website at https://nsf.gov/nms. Dear colleagues,  The Research.gov submission pathway has been established for the GRANTED DCL.  Please follow the instructions in the GRANTED DCL 23-037 when using the Research.gov wizard to set up the proposal form set and submission path using the GRANTED program endpoint.  Thank you for your patience during the building of this critical proposal submission infrastructure; please reach out to GRANTED@nsf.gov if any issues arise. Thank you, The NSF GRANTED Team Additional Resources WHO IS NSF? For more than 70 years the U.S National Science Foundation has funded basic research that has transformed our lives. For a glimpse into who we are and what we do, watch this video.   WEBSITE For special resources, galleries and a closer look at our various research areas, visit our website. MOBILE APP For hundreds of exciting videos and high•resolution photos from a dozen areas of science, download the NSF Science Zone app.   FACT SHEETS Concise, factual summaries describing NSF at a Glance, By the Numbers, or other science topics, please visit this page.

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Happy National Fun at Work Day!

Some of our team members took the opportunity to have a little fun with some of the animals that are the focus of NSF-supported research. Of course, we have fun learning, so below we also share bits of knowledge gained through that research. It's March, so cue the band, turn down the lights and let's introduce the players — it's March Animal Madness! Inspired by the yearly basketball tournament and March Mammal Madness, we've pitted some members of kingdom Animalia against each other in fun and friendly competitions that highlight some of the interesting biological research NSF has recently supported – making each of our "players" student-athletes. NSF experts have weighed in on who they think will win in each bracket below and you can let us know your thoughts via social media.
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Mon, 04 Apr 2022
Hawaiian corals show surprising resilience to warming oceans

22-month study provides realistic conditions, scientists say
A long-term study of Hawaiian coral species offers a surprisingly optimistic view of how they might survive warmer and more acidic oceans resulting from climate change.
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Νέα θεραπεία: Η ΕΕ εγκρίνει το SOTORASIB για τον μη μικροκυτταρικό καρκίνο του πνεύμονα

Ο καρκίνος του πνεύμονα είναι η κύρια αιτία θανάτων που σχετίζονται με καρκίνο παγκοσμίως και ευθύνεται για περισσότερους θανάτους παγκοσμίως από τον καρκίνο του παχέος εντέρου, τον καρκίνο του μαστού και τον καρκίνο του προστάτη μαζί. Τα συνολικά ποσοστά επιβίωσης για τον μη μικροκυτταρικό καρκίνο του πνεύμονα (ΜΜΚΠ) βελτιώνονται αλλά παραμένουν χαμηλά για ασθενείς με προχωρημένη νόσο και η πενταετής επιβίωση είναι μόνο 7% για όσους έχουν μεταστατική νόσο.

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Εμβόλιο Novavax: Πώς θα χορηγείται και σε τι διαφέρει από τα υπόλοιπαΕιδήσεις Υγείας χωρίς δεσμεύσε

Έρχεται στην Ελλάδα το πρώτο πρωτεϊνικό εμβόλιο κατά του κορονοϊού, αυτό της Novavax. Σύμφωνα με τον γενικό γραμματέα Πρωτοβάθμιας Φροντίδας Υγείας, Μάριο θεμιστοκλέους τα εμβόλια Novavax αναμένονται στη χώρα μας στις 21 Φεβρουαρίου.

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«Παρατηρητήριο για την Υπογεννητικότητα» από τη Eurolife FFH, το Οικονομικό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών και την HOPEgenesis

Σε μια νέα έρευνα σχετικά με το φαινόμενο της υπογεννητικότητας στην Ελλάδα προχωρά η Eurolife FFH, αυτή τη φορά σε συνεργασία με το Εργαστήριο Μάρκετινγκ του τμήματος Μάρκετινγκ και Επικοινωνίας του Οικονομικού Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών και την HOPEgenesis. Στόχος της έρευνας αυτής είναι να εντοπίσει και να καταγράψει τάσεις και συμπεριφορές της ελληνικής οικογένειας, ως προς το ενδεχόμενο απόκτησης ενός ή περισσότερων παιδιών, αναλύοντας ταυτόχρονα το πρόβλημα σε πολλαπλά επίπεδα

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Περισσότερα από 1 στα 10 άτομα έχουν σακχαρώδη διαβήτη και περισσότερα από 1 στα 3 έχουν προδιαβήτη στις ΗΠΑ, σύμφωνα με πρόσφατη έκθεση που δημοσιεύτηκε την περασμένη Παρασκευή (25 Ιανουαρίου 2022) από το CDC (US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), που συμπεριέλαβε δεδομένα από το 2017 έως το 2020.

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Ιδιαίτερα ενδιαφέροντα είναι τα αποτελέσματα της ετήσιας έρευνας που πραγματοποίησε το Ευρωπαϊκό Όργανο των Φαρμακοποιών της Κοινότητας (Pharmaceutical Group of European Union – PGEU) για το θέμα των ελλείψεων φαρμάκων δίνοντας τροφή για σκέψη σε μία περίοδο που για μία ακόμη φορά το θέμα απασχολεί τη δημοσιότητα λόγω και των προσπαθειών της διοίκησης του Πανελλήνιου Φαρμακευτικού Συλλόγου να πιέσει την πολιτεία να θέσει το θέμα ψηλά στις προτεραιότητές της ώστε να μειωθεί όσο γίνεται περισσότερο η ταλαιπωρία των φαρμακοποιών αλλά και –το σημαντικότερο- των ασθενών.

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Ο αναπληρωτής καθηγητής Πρωτοβάθμιας Φροντίδας Υγείας στο Τμήμα Ιατρικής του ΑΠΘ και μέλος της Εθνικής Επιτροπής Εμβολιασμών, Εμμανουήλ Σμυρνάκης, επιχειρεί να απαντήσει στο αμείλικτο ερώτημα του τελευταίου διαστήματος: Γιατί η Ελλάδα καταγράφει ρεκόρ θανάτων από την έναρξη της πανδημίας και χάνει τριψήφιο αριθμό ανθρώπων καθημερινά, παρά το γεγονός ότι ένα μεγάλο μέρος του πληθυσμού της έχει εμβολιαστεί; Ο ίδιος εντοπίζει έξι κύριους λόγους:

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COVID-19: latest updates

 The latest updates on the COVID-19 pandemic from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) are available below.

DATE	TOPIC	UPDATE	MORE INFORMATION
25/01/2022	COVID-19 vaccines: authorised	EMA published the clinical data supporting the extension of indication for Spikevax to include use in adolescents aged 12 to 17. Health Canada also published these data	Clinical data (login required)
24/01/2022	COVID-19 vaccines: authorised	EMA's CHMP approved increased manufacturing capacity for AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine Vaxzevria	Increase in manufacturing capacity for Vaxzevria (previously COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca)
21/01/2022	International Coalition of Medicines Regulatory Authorities (ICMRA)	ICMRA published a report on the global regulatory response to the Omicron variant	International regulators’ recommendations on COVID-19 vaccines and the Omicron variant
20/01/2022	Safety of COVID-19 vaccines	EMA published new safety updates for COVID-19 vaccines
19/01/2022	COVID-19 vaccines: authorised	EMA published assessment reports for its review of the risk of myocarditis and pericarditis with Comirnaty and Spikevax	Comirnaty Spikevax (previously COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna)
18/01/2022	COVID-19 vaccines: authorised	EMA published updated product information for Vaxzevria to include new data on the known side effect, thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome	Vaxzevria (previously COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca)
18/01/2022	Treatments and vaccines for COVID-19	The video recording is available of EMA’s latest COVID-19 press briefing	EMA regular press briefing on COVID-19
18/01/2022	COVID-19 vaccines: authorised	EMA published an update on the use of mRNA vaccines during pregnancy	COVID-19: latest safety data provide reassurance about use of mRNA vaccines during pregnancy

NSF CISE Newsletter: January 2022

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Fast Links and Funding Opportunities

Designing Accountable Software Systems (DASS)

Deadline: January 28, 2022

Computer and Information Science and Engineering Minority-Serving Institutions Research Expansion Program (CISE-MSI Program)

Deadline: February 11, 2022

Formal Methods in the Field (FMitF)

Deadline: February 15, 2022

A Message from CISE Leadership

Dear CISE community,

First, I want to wish all of you a happy New Year. I remain hopeful that during 2022 we will see many breakthrough discoveries in our field that positively impact some of the most critical challenges our nation faces, even as we are still trying to manage the challenges that the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has brought upon us.


At CISE, we continue to work – some in person and some virtually – on accomplishing our priorities and setting new short- and long-term goals that support NSF’s mission of leading foundational research and discoveries to promote the progress of science in our country and beyond.


Last week, I participated in an event hosted by the White House to discuss open-source software security. Participating Federal agencies and industry leaders discussed the importance of improving the security of open-source software and increasing collaboration between private and public stakeholders to further our goal of a more secure cyberspace. In line with these efforts, CISE will continue to support programs that address cybersecurity and privacy such as the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace, Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure, and Principles and Practice of Scalable Systems programs.

This first iteration of our 2022 newsletters highlights a multi-disciplinary program led by our Division of Information and Intelligent Systems: the Smart Health and Biomedical Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Data Science (SCH) program. The SCH program has been instrumental in advancing research, understanding system innovations in our healthcare system, and making significant contributions to the development of new technologies and approaches to health management.


But before I leave you to our newsletter, I would like to share with you a recent report from The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on the representation of women of color in tech fields and careers. The study reports that women of color earn less than 10 percent of the bachelor’s degrees awarded in computing and less than 5 percent of doctorates. This trend affects the representation of women of color in the information technology workforce. At NSF, we continue to promote the participation of underserved groups, including women of color, through programs like Broadening Participation in Computing, CISE Broadening Participation in Computing Pilot, Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Computer and Information Science and Engineering Minority-Serving Institutions Research Expansion Program, Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science​, ADVANCE: Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic Professions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Excellence in Research, just to new a few.

We encourage you to continue to submit proposals to our programs and share this newsletter with your colleagues and peers.

Best,

Margaret Martonosi
NSF Assistant Director for CISE


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Program Director in the Computing and Communication Foundations Division. (Open until filled)

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News & Announcements

Funding Opportunity: NSF Convergence Accelerator 2022 Joint NSF/DOD Phases 1 and 2 for Track G: Securely Operating Through 5G Infrastructure

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The National Science Foundation’s Convergence Accelerator is accelerating research and discovery into practice by issuing a new funding opportunity for a new research track topic: Securely Operating Through 5G Infrastructure.



Academy of Finland funds research collaboration between Finland and USA

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The Academy of Finland has granted 3 million euros in funding for joint research projects between Finnish and US researchers. The funding was for seven projects involving eight parties from Finland and nine from the United States.


New public neuroimaging dataset provides deep sampling of individual human brains

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Researchers from the University of Minnesota Medical School have published an extensive dataset that uses cutting-edge, high-field (7T) fMRI technology to probe how humans perceive, interpret and memorize naturalistic photographs. The Natural Scenes Dataset (NSD) joins a growing body of big-data neuroimaging resources that are providing researchers with opportunities to develop deeper insights in cognitive and computational neuroscience.


Extreme weather changes predicted by unprecedented model simulations

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There is growing public awareness that climate change will impact society not only through changes in mean temperatures and rainfall over the 21st century, but also in the occurrence of more pronounced extreme events, and more generally in natural variability in the Earth system. Such changes could also have large impacts on vulnerable ecosystems in both terrestrial and marine habitats.



Dear Colleague Letter: Request for Information on Future Topics for the NSF Convergence Accelerator

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The Convergence Accelerator builds upon NSF investments in fundamental research and discovery to accelerate solutions toward societal impact using a three-tiered approach: topic ideation, followed by convergence research phases 1 and 2. Topics aligned to a specific research focus are called “tracks” and funded teams constitute a cohort. The teams include multiple disciplines, expertise and cross-sector partnerships to stimulate innovative ideas and to develop long-lasting, sustainable solutions to support a variety of societal challenges.

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Smart Health and Biomedical Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Data Science (SCH)

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Even before the COVID-19 pandemic began, medical, public health and healthcare delivery systems were experiencing significant stress, in part because of lack of experience with and access to innovative technology. Other businesses have seen increases in innovation because of adoption and investment in new analytics methods, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, as well as new technologies.

To date, the biomedical and health communities have not been a part of this revolution, still embodied by systems that rely on individual expertise, limited data collection, and face-to-face interactions. The biomedical and health communities have been siloed from the technical communities. Both industry and government reviews note that bridging these siloes is a critical element in the improvement of the health system of our country. Thus, moving forward research in these areas requires the integration of computing, informatics, engineering, mathematics and statistics, behavioral and social science disciplines with the biomedical and public health communities. Recent developments in data science stemming from the significant advances in machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), deep learning, pervasive computing and sensing, high performance and cloud computing, make such integration achievable.

The Smart Health and Biomedical Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Data Science (SCH) program is an interagency solicitation collaboration between NSF and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Smart Health supports innovative, high-risk/high-reward research with the promise of disruptive transformations in biomedical research, which can only be achieved by well-coordinated, convergent, inter-disciplinary approaches that draw from multiple domains of computer and information science, engineering, mathematical sciences and the biomedical, social, behavioral, and economic sciences.

The goal of this program is to fund research that address computational, algorithmic, data fusion and systemic level issues in biomedical data science research, as well as human perceptual, cognitive, or behavioral.

Wendy Nilsen, Acting Deputy Division Director for the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems within CISE noted that partnerships between the scientific, engineering, and biomedical teams all work to the main goal of the Smart Health program, that is, working as a team, can drive technical and biomedical innovation to improve the health of the country.

For more information, view the SCH solicitation here. The next SCH deadline is November 10, 2022.

SciComm Corner


Personalized Models of Nutrition Intake from Continuous Glucose Monitors

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Despite the high prevalence of diabetes, managing the disease effectively is challenging. Continuous glucose monitoring systems have been used to measure glucose, which is a key indicator in diabetes. Because glucose is affected by the nutrients in the food people eat, it can change quickly and dramatically causing life threatening issues. Therefore, understanding what people with diabetes eat has been a key target of the field, but measuring food intake in the wild has been elusive. This project flips food measuring on its head by using changes in glucose to understand what has been eaten.


The interdisciplinary team studies food intake to understand individual glucose responses and extrapolates these data to create a model of what people are eating. Doing this work requires advances in Machine Learning (ML) that let the team parse this difficult and ever-changing data. By understanding what people are eating, the biomedical community can create more effective interventions. The project’s early work has shown the feasibility of the approach for understanding carbohydrates, fat and proteins. The research team has already published at multiple conferences and in journals and supported the contributions from multiple graduate students.


“The project is novel and potentially transformative. It depends on the crucial assumption that the glucose data can be used to accurately predict macronutrient composition, but it has high potential impact. Being a high-risk high-payoff project, it inverses metabolic models to predict macronutrients from the glucose signatures,” said NSF Program Director Wei Ding.



Disposable High Sensitivity Point of Care Immunosensors for Multiple Disease and Pathogen Detection

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Researchers at Arizona State University are investigating substances found in sweat and blood, such as protein, which can detect health and disease biomarkers. Researchers will measure changes in these proteins, to develop an inexpensive and disposable patch sensor that can be worn on the skin. Ideally, these sensors, which are now being developed for in-home COVID-19 assessment, can become as widely used as a thermometer found in most home medicine cabinets.


This project aims to create a miniature electronic sensing platform that can be combined with state-of-the-art biomarker proteomic detection technology to diagnose and monitor multiple diseases with medical laboratory level sensitivity. This proposal presents a new approach combining low-cost commercial display technology (found in your TV, computer monitor, or cell phone) with protein microarray printing technology to fabricate a low-cost, disposable sensor for more effective self-management of patient health care in the home or in other non-clinical settings.


“This project is a key for individual self-management and since each pixel can look for a different biomarker, each patch can provide feedback for a range of conditions, in many different environments,” noted NSF Program Director Sylvia Spengler.


A gamified mobile system for real-time mental health data modeling and personalized autism care across sociocultural settings

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Autism Spectrum Disorder is a broad-spectrum developmental disability, with a growing prevalence rate that has seen a four-fold increase over the last 5 years (1 in 44 children, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2021). Early intervention involving family and caregivers is very important to help reduce the burden of this disorder over their lifespan.

This project’s team has developed a mobile system-based prototype, Guess What, that uses a smartphone’s camera and fluidly engages with a child, facilitating prosocial learning and measuring the child’s developmental learning progress. The goal is to help the children be better at identifying social cues and behavior that will support them in forming new relationships. The team is constructing a novel Recurrent Neural Network models for identifying child’s emotions, head movements, hand movements, and eye gaze estimations. The project currently has active users in over 25 countries helping the team gather information from a diverse group of children of different races, cultures and ethnicities. These active users have so far played over 13,000 mobile games across 10 different game decks including faces/emojis, animal, sports, jobs, gestures and movement, objects, and code word decks. The medical experts on the team have also completed a clinical feasibility study on 72 children ages 3-8 and the results show a significant effect on social knowledge for children who played the game at least four times a week over one month period.

“The project provides an innovative, engaging, and affordable intervention platform, driven by sophisticated machine learning algorithms, that helps family members and caregivers to work together with these children. These are very young children and working with family members is both fun and rewarding in terms of handling their (children’s) issues arising from this broad-spectrum disorder.”, noted NSF Program Director Prabha (Balakrishnan) Prabhakaran.


Optimal Desensitization Protocol in Support of a Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) System

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Today, more than 750,000 Americans suffer from end-stage renal disease. For most of these patients, treatment consists of biweekly dialysis, which severely affects their quality of life. Black Americans are 3 times as likely as white Americans to suffer from this disease. For the fortunate few, kidney transplants significantly improve quality of life, but the median wait time for a suitable donor kidney is more than 4 years. Additionally, many donated kidneys go unused because an acceptable match cannot be found.

In some cases, personalized treatment may be offered to desensitize the patient to the donor kidney by a selective antigen-removing regimen. This project seeks to expand the pool of acceptable donor kidneys by building data-driven decision models to improve transplantation outcomes, thereby increasing the number of successful transplants, decreasing transplantation wait times, and lowering overall system costs. The project involves a collaboration between researchers at George Mason University, the University of Maryland, and the Virginia Commonwealth University Health Hume-Lee Transplant Center—a designated kidney paired donation center.

“This work has the potential to significantly improve quality of life for patients suffering from end-stage kidney disease. Moreover, what the team will learn in designing algorithms for effective matching of kidneys with a desensitization regimen will provide insight into transplantation of other organs, such as the heart, lungs, and liver,” said NSF Program Director Georgia-Ann Klutke.

Faces of CISE: Elizabeth Mynatt, Ph.D.


Elizabeth Mynatt, Ph.D.
Dean
Khoury College of Computer Sciences
Northeastern University
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Elizabeth Mynatt, Ph.D., is the newly appointed Dean of Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. Her career spans 23 years at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), where she most recently served as Regents’ Professor in the College of Computing and executive director of the Institute of People and Technology. She has been recognized as an ACM Fellow, a member of the ACM SIGCHI Academy, and a Sloan and Kavli research fellow. She has published more than 100 scientific papers and chaired the CHI 2010 conference, the premier international conference in human-computer interaction. She currently serves as member of the National Academies Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) and she chaired the recent update to the National Academies "Tire Tracks" report. Mynatt is also a member of the NSF CISE Advisory Committee. She is the past Chair of the Computing Community Consortium — an NSF-sponsored effort to engage the computing research community in envisioning more audacious research challenges.

Mynatt is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of ubiquitous computing, personal health informatics, and assistive technologies. She has worked with several partners, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Emory Brain Health Center, Parkview Health, and the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University to understand the design and adoption of socio-technical computing systems that enable people to better support their health and wellness needs.


NSF support has been critical to Mynatt achieving her research ambitions and enabling her to evolve her research agenda. She received an NSF CAREER award that supported her research in fostering informal collaboration through Bayesian models of availability and likelihood of future interactions. A critical juncture in her career came with the NSF ITR funding of the Aware Home, launching decades of research into context-aware computing for home health and wellness needs. New NSF programs in Smart Health and Well-Being and Smart and Connected Health provided new avenues to explore the potential of mobile and wearable technologies and services. Mynatt’s research resulted in new approaches to foster sensemaking for newly diagnosed diabetics, fitness and healthy identities for adolescents, and personalized and adaptive engagement for breast cancer patients. This last project was jointly supported by the National Cancer Institute and was featured in a report to President Barack Obama by the President’s Cancer Panel.

Mynatt is particularly excited to bring together these threads of her research in the newly funded NSF AI Institute for Collaborative Assistance and Responsive Interaction for Networked Groups (AI CARING). This institute “will develop a discipline focused on personalized, longitudinal, collaborative AI, enabling the development of AI systems that learn personalized models of user behavior, understand how people’s behavior changes over time, and integrate that knowledge to support people and AIs working together.” Akin to her decades of past research, Mynatt will help guide the innovation of new intelligent, interactive systems that are deeply rooted in health and wellness needs and that foster useable and useful human-centered experiences.

CISE Units

Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS)
CNS invents new computing and networking technologies, while ensuring their security and privacy, and finds new ways to make use of current technologies.

Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF)
CCF advances computing and communication theory, algorithms for computer and computational sciences and architecture and the design of computers and software.

Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS)
IIS studies the interrelated roles of people, computers and information to increase the ability to understand data, as well as mimic the hallmarks of intelligence in computational systems.


Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC)
OAC supports and coordinates the development, acquisition and provision of state-of-the-art cyberinfrastructure resources, tools and services essential to the advancement and transformation of Science and engineering.