CAMD:

CAMD will prioritize applications that accomplish at least several of the following:

1. Support junior faculty without previous TIER 1 funding.
2. Offer RA positions to one or more CAMD PhD students.
3. Connect with one or more research centers, institutes, and/or collaborators in the global campus network.
4. Build connections with one or more industry or community partners.
5. Engage with CAMD’s strategic research priorities: Creativity, Health and Wellbeing; AR/VR/XR; Data Visualization, Physicalization and Sonification; Sustainability and Spatial Justice; Future of Information; Creative Industries; and/or Humanistic AI.

COE:

Significant consideration is given to proposals with some or all of the following criteria (not listed in order of importance):

1. Involves early-career faculty and/or faculty who have not received a TIER 1 in recent years.
2. Proposes a project that will occur at a campus in which research is still being established (i.e. any campus other than Boston, Burlington, Nahant or Portland).

In addition, all COE proposals must incorporate considerations of sustainability as it relates to impact on the environment. This should be clearly articulated in your response to Question 3, which covers your responsiveness to college priorities.

COS:

COS will prioritize TIER 1 applications which:

1. Build new collaborative teams.
2. Include investigators in the Global Network.
3. Show strong potential for follow-on funding.
4. Incorporate modeling or quantitative/computational approaches.
5. Open fields, or where scientific leadership may be an outcome.
6. Support COS research initiatives in sustainability, mental health, and other areas in the college’s strategic plan

CPS:

CPS will prioritize interdisciplinary projects that are impact-driven and use-inspired. Successful projects will demonstrate measurable outcomes in one or more of these areas:

1. Workforce and Economic Development
2. The intersection of Entrepreneurship with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
3. Sustainability practices
4. Use-inspired AI/AR
5. Transformative teaching & learning

CPS will look for projects that:

1. Involve faculty across the Global University system.
2. Promote the creation of work/college pathways.
3. Foster connections between educational institutions and industry
4. Equip students with the practical skills needed to meet current job market demands.

CSSH:

Preference will be given to proposals incorporating one or more of the CSSH priorities:

1. Include attention to analysis of hierarchies, intersectionality, and racism
2. Focus on growing CSSH research in the global campus network
3. Include community partnerships or engagement
4. Support newly tenured and/or junior faculty proposing new or highly innovative research
5. Support for undergraduate and/or graduate students in the budget, especially CSSH doctoral students in their first five years of funding.

DMSB:

DMSB is interested in projects that open pathways to connecting our faculty to other colleges and campuses, and expanding external funding. We are specifically enthusiastic about proposals related to our strategic priority of Augmented Intelligence; i.e. the integration of the physical, digital, and human resources resulting in consolidated digital and physical ecosystems. Newly tenured faculty are particularly encouraged to apply. Specific Areas of interest include:

• Data and data analytics—artificial intelligence, natural language processing, healthcare analytics, workforce analytics, data visualization, digital marketing, fintech, ethical use of data, human-AI interactions
• Global business and our global campus network—resilience, sustainable supply chains
• Entrepreneurship and innovation—technology strategy, IoT
• Future of work—AI savvy leadership, diversity, inclusion, and belonging, changing nature of the workplace, building a sustainable economy, workplace mental health

Khoury:

In addition to their scientific/intellectual merit and broader impacts, proposals will be evaluated for:

• Building on Khoury’s strong research reputation:
• Demonstrably new area of research for Khoury faculty
• Establishes a new interdisciplinary collaboration that crosses colleges
• Proposing projects that potentially
• are transformative in nature and establish scientific leadership
• lead to large-scale research opportunities
• Reinforcing Khoury’s commitment to “CS for All”
• Expanding research through the global campus network
• Provides significant research and leadership opportunities members of diverse and underrepresented groups
• Engaging Khoury researchers without previous TIER 1 funding
• Demonstrating significant societal impact and establishing new strategic partnerships
• Striving to increase diversity and/or decrease bias as a primary outcome
• Conducting research that impacts CS Education

Mills at Oakland:

1. Sustainability
2. Innovations in AI for education
3. Student research mentorship
4. Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging
5. Establishing or strengthening research partnerships across colleges and campuses

Northeastern – London:

Priority will be given to proposals that:

• Include applicants who have not previously received Tier 1 funding.
• Involve student research assistants.
• Contribute to REF-eligible outputs, future funding applications, and enhance the research culture at Northeastern University London.
• Involve new faculty members or assistant professors.

NUSL:

• Early career researchers and PIs who have not have TIER 1 funding in the past 3 years
• Subject Matter:
• artificial intelligence and privacy
• healthcare and policy
• civil and human rights (including race and gender)
• sustainability
• economic development and income inequality
• criminal justice

Roux Institute:

The Roux Institute is prioritizing Roux-funded faculty who are early career (within 5 years of their first academic research appointment beyond a postdoc).