NSF Cross-Institutional Research Engagement Network (CIREN) for Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Facilitators

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville in collaboration with Arizona State University has created the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Cross-Institutional Research Engagement Network (CIREN) for cyberinfrastructure (CI) facilitators.  The purpose of this NSF-funded project (Grants OAC-2230106 and OAC-2230108) is to fill critical gaps in the development and retention of CI facilitators via training, mentorship and research engagement.

NSF CIREN’s mission is to enable transformative research discoveries by connecting researchers with computational expertise.  The NSF CIREN program provides training and mentorship to current and future CI facilitators to enable and expand their ability to engage in transformational research utilizing high-performance computing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.  This program recruits, trains, and engages CI facilitators within multi-disciplinary, cross-institutional research projects.  These research engagements increase the impact and scope of the research and serve as an effective model to nurture an innovative research community.

More information on NSF CIREN can be found on the project’s websites:  https://ciren.utk.edu/ and https://ciren.asu.edu/.