National Science Foundation Computer, Information, & Engineering Directorate CreativeIT & Human Centered Computing Programs
Program Director
Program Director
I was recruited to lead the NSF CreativeIT program in the Computer, Information Science, and Engineering (CISE) directorate, Intelligent Information Systems (IIS) division. I also served as cognizant program officer for the Human Centered Computing (HCC) and the Cyberlearning Transforming Education and Computer Research Infrastructure (CRI) programs. I was a colleague advisor to the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) education technology track; Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU); and Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research programs (EPSCoR). I served on the Federal Networking & Information Technology Research and Development Alliance Social, Economic and Workforce Coordinating Group (NITRD SEW) that advised research funding priorities for the U.S. President’s budget supplement. And I was the NSF Director’s delegate to the Federal Council for the Arts and Humanities. The council, comprised of Secretaries, Directors, and delegates from cabinet level agencies, was tasked with granting indemnification for rare art and archeological artifacts traveling to U.S. cultural institutions.
The CreativeIT program was active from 2006 to 2012 and under my leadership from 2009 to 2012, the ITR-CreativeIT and CreativeIT program granted nearly $46M to high risk | high reward projects that integrated the fine, applied, performing arts, and humanities to drive new discoveries in basic and applied research in computer science and engineering. Funded projects explored the topics: models to understand creative cognition; computational tools to support problem solving across all domains; breakthroughs in science stimulated through the arts and humanities and vice versa; and creativity in STEM learning (STEAM). CreativeIT relied on agency-wide co-funding to increase our funding purse and to instill the importance and opportunities in integrative research between STEM and the Arts throughout the NSF. Our team of Program Directors represented Human Centered Computing (HCC), Information Integration & Informatics (III), Robust Intelligence (RI), Advancing Informal Science Learning (AISL) and Social, Behavioral, & Economic sciences (SBE). In addition, CreativeIT co-funded research projects with Computer Network Systems (CNS) and Computing & Communication Foundations (CCF).
The CreativeIT program was active from 2006 to 2012 and under my leadership from 2009 to 2012, the ITR-CreativeIT and CreativeIT program granted nearly $46M to high risk | high reward projects that integrated the fine, applied, performing arts, and humanities to drive new discoveries in basic and applied research in computer science and engineering. Funded projects explored the topics: models to understand creative cognition; computational tools to support problem solving across all domains; breakthroughs in science stimulated through the arts and humanities and vice versa; and creativity in STEM learning (STEAM). CreativeIT relied on agency-wide co-funding to increase our funding purse and to instill the importance and opportunities in integrative research between STEM and the Arts throughout the NSF. Our team of Program Directors represented Human Centered Computing (HCC), Information Integration & Informatics (III), Robust Intelligence (RI), Advancing Informal Science Learning (AISL) and Social, Behavioral, & Economic sciences (SBE). In addition, CreativeIT co-funded research projects with Computer Network Systems (CNS) and Computing & Communication Foundations (CCF).