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NSF Partnerships for International Research and Education NSF OISE-0730065 http://pire.fiu.edu/. CI-PIRE: A Global Living Laboratory for Cyberinfrastructure Application Enablement Florida International University Nov. 2010. CI-PIRE Introduction.
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NSF Partnerships for International Research and EducationNSF OISE-0730065http://pire.fiu.edu/ CI-PIRE: A Global Living Laboratory for Cyberinfrastructure Application Enablement Florida International University Nov. 2010
CI-PIRE Introduction • Provides international research and career development opportunities to students from FIU, FAU, UNCC, UM, and UPRM • Focuses on research and education excellence in cyberinfrastructure (CI) application enablement, especially on Hurricane Mitigation, Bioinformatics, and Healthcare applications • Provides global training in cross-cultural collaboration and creates scholars ready to compete in the global marketplace
CI-PIRE Introduction • Engages highly qualified science and engineering students at all ranks • Pays for collaboration-research trips of 6 weeks to full semesters in length to research sites in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, France, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, and Spain • Provides fellowships of up to $10,000 per semester to superbly-qualified PhD students • Provides limited tuition and stipend to excellent students who maintain their collaborations after their travel
CI-PIRE Partnership Model • Adding world-class institutions that bring unique and significant contribution to CI-PIRE • Leveraging the LA Grid’s established partnerships: • FIU, FAU, UM, & UPRM • IBM (T.J. Watson, Almaden, CRL, IRL, and TRL) • BSC/UPC, UdeG, UNLP • Going beyond LA Grid • UNCC (USA) • Tsinghua (China), UCLM (Spain), UFF (Brazil), UFG (Brazil), USP (Brazil), UdR (France), PoliMi (Italy), NII (Japan), Eindhoven (Netherlands) • INRIA (France), Yahoo! (Spain), REIN (France)
CI-PIRE Triangle for Workforce Development Academic International A Student-Centric Model Industry Local Applied Basic
Participant Process Model:Project Management & Evaluation Project Management Engaging Home Inst. Engaging Int’l Partners Recruitment Application Proposal Collaborative Research, Education, and Training Global Train. Logistics Industry Experience International Experience Report Summit Monitoring the Safety of Students Faculty Advisors’ Short Visits to Collab. Monitoring the Progress of Projects Monitoring the Students Int’l Exposure Review & Plan Internal & External Evaluation
Student and Faculty Travels • First three years • 20 travels by faculty members • ~1 week long • 60 travels by student participants • ~8 weeks long • First two years • 94% expectations from the program were met • 100% recommend this program to others
Publications Summary • Published • 4 journal articles • 4 book chapters • 26 conference and workshop papers • 64 posters • To be published • 2 under review • 2 ready for submission • 16 under preparation
CI-PIRE Past Participation Highlights • PhD Students • Tariq King: Asst. Prof. at North Dakota State • Selim Kalayci: Instructor and HPC Director at East Tennessee State University • Eric Meyer: Prof. at Miami Dade College • MS Students • Ingrid Bukley: Pursuing PhD • Paula Carrilla: Working at Texas Instruments • One is now working for Infor • BS Students • Marlon Bright: Pursuing MS in UT Austin; will continue to PhD • Christopher Holder: Employed at Microsoft as a SDET in Sharepoint • AJ Munoz and SajjadZaidi: Working at Kaseya; • Jonathan Sanchez is the eFollett coordinator • One working for Turner Construction • One undergraduate student got internship at Siemens
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