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 or research master’s students.
3. Connect to initiatives at one of CAMD’s three research centers and propose a framework for continued center collaboration.
4. Position CAMD to connect with one or more university-wide initiatives (i.e. impact engines, institutes, etc.) in a defined and sustaining way.
5. Build connections with one or more campus network partners.
6. Engage with CAMD’s strategic research priorities: Creativity & Health, AR/VR/XR; Data Visualization, Physicalization, & Sonification; Spatial Justice; Information & Democracy; and/or Materials Innovation; or CAMD’s Priority Research Growth Areas: Creative Computing; Science & Health Communication; Extraordinary HCI; and/or AI + Creativity.

COE:

The college is open to all proposals that are highly responsive to the review criteria outlined in the application.

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

• Involves early-career faculty and/or faculty who have not received a TIER 1 in recent years.
• 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).

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 supports applied research that is impact-driven, transformational, use-inspired, and data-inspired with measurable outcomes in the following high impact areas:

• Work-based learning, experiential learning, and learning sciences
• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging
• Entrepreneurship
• Student learning and success
• Sustainability
• Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality

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 proposals related to our strategic priority of Digital Convergence, which we define as the integration of the physical, digital, and human resources resulting in consolidated digital and physical ecosystems. Humanics integrates human capabilities, technology, and data. We are interested in projects that open pathways to connecting our faculty to other colleges and expanding external funding. Junior faculty are particularly encouraged to apply. Areas of interest include:

• Data and data analytics—fintech, machine learning, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, healthcare analytics, blockchains, workforce analytics, data visualization, digital marketing, ethical use of data, human-AI interactions
• Global business—resilience, sustainable supply chains
• Entrepreneurship and innovation—technology strategy, IoT
• Future of work—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 CCIS faculty
  • Establishes a new interdisciplinary collaboration that crosses colleges
  • Proposes projects that
    • are potentially transformative in nature and establish scientific leadership
    • may lead to large-scale research opportunities
• Reinforcing Khoury’s commitment to “CS for All” through:
• Projects that expand research through the global campus network
• Projects whose funding provides significant research and leadership opportunities for women and minority students
• Projects led by researchers without previous TIER 1 funding
• Projects that demonstrate significant societal impact and establish new strategic partnerships
• Projects that serve to increase diversity and/or decrease bias as a primary outcome
• Projects that conduct research in the area of CS Education

Mills at Oakland:

1. Projects that aim to solve a pressing global challenge through cross-campus collaborations
2. Work that addresses the root causes of inequities and creates sustainable social change
3. AI in Teaching and Learning
4. Research that utilizes XR technology

Northeastern – London:

• Network Science
• Experiential AI
• AI, information and ethics
• Social Dynamics and Behaviour
• Digital Governance
• Globalisation and sustainability
• Data Science / Digital Humanities
• Higher Education
• Cities – our place in London
• Health

NUSL:

• Early career researchers
• 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