As NSF Program Director:

• Developed and managed portfolio of awards that enable research cyberinfrastructure (CI) development and acquisition as well as Core research. Diverse portfolio in terms of type of CI (data / software / clusters / cloud) and award size, involved both independent and collaborative projects funded under standard, supplemental, or cooperative agreement funding. Portfolio snapshot: 200 awards totaling over $150M (June 2020).

• Managed full proposal pipeline (from receipt to review and recommendation) independently or as part of a group of PDs. Met or exceeded performance targets for processing. Programs include OAC Core Research, Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI), Major Research Instrumentation (MRI).

• Lead for CSSI program, the largest OAC led NSF cross-cutting program. Coordinated weekly NSF-wide WG meetings for CSSI. Coordinated weekly OAC WG meetings for CSSI. Coordinated proposal review, co-reviewed and recommended co-funding proposals with colleagues across NSF. Coordinated CSSI communication (including PI webinars, panelist webinars, common email, etc.) Led solicitation revisions, streamlined operations across the program.

• Supported NSF’s educational programs, such as management of review panels for the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) applications.

• Contributor to outreach activities (including participating and presenting at two NSF Grants Conference, EPSCoR PI Meeting, CISE Career Workshop, CISE Minority Serving Institutions Convening, volunteering at the USA Science & Engineering Festival, member of the NSF Speakers Bureau).

• Engaged the PIs and the broader professional CI community through PI meetings and professional conferences, and workshops (including PEARC, CASC Fall and Spring meetings, SC) and campus visits.

• Active participant in NSF and CISE working groups and committees on improving program management efficiency, panel, and reviewer diversity, cloud migration, NSF internal awards and holiday planning, 

• Inter-agency expertise: Co-chair of Middleware and Grid Interagency Coordination (MAGIC) team within the Large-Scale Networking (LSN) Interagency Working Group of the Subcommittee on Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD), a federal cross-agency initiative. Attended inter-agency meetings and workshops (including NITRD BigData, NIST Federal Engagement in Artificial Intelligence Standards Workshop, NIH/NSF collaboration for AI related initiatives).

As Professor and Project Director

• Successful management of projects (development, securing funding, managing budgets, developing and delivering activities, etc) including ones focused on student professional development (Research Experience for Undergraduates Sites and Supplements, Technology for Teaching) or on equipment acquisition and deployment (Major Research Instrumentation). Director of the Computational Sensing Laboratory.

• Chaired search committees, member of Departmental Personnel Action committee (tenure, reappointment, and promotion)

• External evaluator and reviewer for leading professional journals and conferences, funding agencies, tenure and promotion applications, student and postdoctoral scholarships.