{"id":8111,"date":"2020-01-22T10:16:12","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T18:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about-hmc\/?p=8111"},"modified":"2020-06-03T14:44:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T21:44:27","slug":"nsf-grant-supports-cultivating-diversity-among-ai-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/2020\/01\/22\/nsf-grant-supports-cultivating-diversity-among-ai-researchers\/","title":{"rendered":"NSF Grant Supports Cultivating Diversity Among AI Researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harvey Mudd College computer science professor Jim Boerkoel has received a $45,900 federal grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in support of his project \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/aaai.org\/Conferences\/AAAI-20\/undergraduate-consortium\/\">A Consortium for Cultivating Future Artificial Intelligence Researchers<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe AAAI Undergraduate Consortium and Mentoring Program, hosted at the 2020 and 2021 AAAI Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, will attempt to address the challenge of building a healthy cohort of future artificial intelligence (AI) researchers that is representative of broader societal diversity,\u201d Boerkoel says.<\/p>\n<p>This program seeks to fortify the research identities of future AI researchers across a diverse set of backgrounds, particularly among populations that are traditionally underrepresented in STEM. The long-term objective is to broaden the pipeline of students pursuing AI graduate education and research careers, and to do so in a way that the pedagogical tools and materials can be leveraged by researchers and educators at academic conferences across computer science and STEM disciplines.<\/p>\n<p>Program participants will have an enhanced conference experience through opportunities to practice written and verbal presentation skills, receive constructive feedback, build mentoring relationships with AI experts and researchers, construct a diverse network of peers, and engage in educational activities related to pursuing and assessing a graduate career in AI research.<\/p>\n<p>In partnership with AAAI, Boerkoel will collect data on undergraduate participation at the conferences to determine the program\u2019s efficacy and pipeline effects over time. He will also maintain and disseminate a repository of ready-made undergraduate programming opportunities that can be used in conjunction with any professional computer science conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to helping fund the program itself,\u201d Boerkoel says, \u201cthe grant will also provide funding for 25 undergraduate students to attend over the next two years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvey Mudd College computer science professor Jim Boerkoel has received a $45,900 federal grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":5113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,83,14,213],"class_list":["post-8111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computer-science","category-diversity","category-faculty","category-grant"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}