CSC News

January 27, 2006

Ma Receives NSF Career Award

Photo of Dr. MaCongratulations to Dr. Xiaosong Ma, assistant professor of computer science, who recently received a Faculty Early Career Development (Career) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), effective March 1, 2006, through February 28, 2011. The NSF will provide $400,000 in funding over the next five years to support Ma's research project entitled, "Career: Transparent, Interactive Desktop Parallel Computing for Scientific Data Processing."

NSF Career Awards are one of the highest honors given to young university faculty in science and engineering. With Ma's award, she becomes the 16th current CSC faculty member to have been recognized with this prestigious award.

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