Keynote Speaker

Margaret Martonosi

The Computing and Information Science Landscape: A look forward

The fields of computer and information science and engineering (CISE) are central to nearly all of society’s needs, opportunities, and challenges. The US National Science Foundation (NSF) was created 70 years ago with a broad mission to promote the progress of science and to catalyze societal and economic benefits. NSF, largely through its CISE directorate which has an annual budget of more than $1B, accounts for over 85% of federally-funded, academic, fundamental computer science research in the US. My talk will give an overview of NSF/CISE research, education, and research infrastructure programs, and relate them to the technical and societal trends and topics that will impact their future trajectory..

Margaret Martonosi

Assistant Director, Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) at the National Science Foundation

Dr. Margaret Martonosi is the US National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Assistant Director for Computer and information Science and Engineering (CISE). With an annual budget of more than $1B, the CISE directorate at NSF has the mission to uphold the Nation’s leadership in scientific discovery and engineering innovation through its support of fundamental research and education in computer and information science and engineering as well as transformative advances in research cyberinfrastructure. While at NSF, Dr. Martonosi is on leave from and retains her tenure at Princeton University where she is the Hugh Trumbull Adams '35 Professor of Computer Science. Dr. Martonosi's research interests are in computer architecture and hardware-software interface issues in both classical and quantum computing systems. Dr. Martonosi is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Fireside Chat with Professor David Awschalom: Quantum Information, a path to transform science and industry

David Awschalom

Liew Family Professor of Molecular Engineering, Deputy Dean, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering; and Director of the Chicago Quantum Exchange

David Awschalom is the Liew Family Professor and Deputy Director of the Pritzker School for Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago, a Senior Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, and Director of the Chicago Quantum Exchange. He is also the inaugural director of Q-NEXT, one of the US DOE Quantum Information Science Research Centers. Before arriving in Chicago, he was the Director of the California NanoSystems Institute and Professor of Physics, Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California – Santa Barbara. Earlier, he served as a Research Staff and Manager at the IBM Watson Research Center. He and his students work in quantum information science and engineering, studying the quantum states of electrons, nuclei, and photons in semiconductors and molecules for quantum information processing. Professor Awschalom received the American Physical Society Oliver Buckley Prize and Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize, the European Physical Society Europhysics Prize, the Materials Research Society David Turnbull Award and Outstanding Investigator Prize, the AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize, the International Magnetism Prize from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, and an IBM Outstanding Innovation Award. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the European Academy of Sciences.

David Awschalom