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Taking Collective ResponsibilityUniversity of Washington, Computer Science & Engineering
Aruna Balasubramanian, new faculty at Stony Brook, networkingGaetano Borriello, faculty, computing for development (ICTD)Ed Lazowska, faculty, systems and eScienceBen Ransford, post-doc, sensor systemsSimon Peter, post-doc, systems and networkingDan Ports, post-doc, distributed systems and languagesSudeepa Roy, post-doc, databases
Post-doc Best Practices Meeting 2
Major trends for CSE post-docs
More post-doc positions UW had 2 in 2003, now we are at 27 growth in dept including 50% more ugrads pales in comparison
More competitive hiring More graduating grads feel a need for a “finishing school” Increase visibility within appropriate research community Begin to assert more independence in choice of research topics
Inconsistency in experiences Post-docs often viewed as “super-grad” or “staff who write papers” Rarely is there collective department responsibility, left to PI
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Post-doc Best Practices Meeting 3
Our proposal Visibility
Increase visibility with department faculty Seminars, discussion of exiting post-docs, exposure to other students,
networking among post-docs
Independence Support fast-tracked REU-like proposals for funding undergrads to
work with post-doc on topics independent of PI Workshops on grant writing, publication process/tradeoffs, advising,
etc.
Department investment Faculty post-doc coordinator and ombudsman Treating post-docs as department products just as grads are – web
pages, job placement, advertising achievements Periodic progress check towards goals set out initially in post-doc plan
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Post-doc Best Practices Meeting 4
Our proposal (cont’d)
Experimental design and evaluation Recruit a set of universities to implement UW policies Measure differences against control group w/ no intervention
National coordination role Disseminate practices Checklist for post-docs and mentors
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Post-doc Best Practices Meeting 523 May 2014
Post-doc Best Practices Meeting 6
First steps
Survey of chairs of Taulbee departments
Implement department practices for post-docs at UW
REU-like small grants for independent research
Checklist for post-doc process
Decide on metrics and start collecting data (logic model)
Hire 50% professional staff to manage project (David Rispoli)
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Post-doc Best Practices Meeting 7
Thank you!
Gaetano Borriello, [email protected]
David Rispoli, [email protected]
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Notes
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Notes
Chang – NYC Ascent Columbia, Cornell Tech, CUNY, NYU-Poly 1300 tech companies, growing ecosystem 38 total post-docs: Columbia 14, Cornell 13, Poly 7, CUNY 4 388 PhD students Annual career symposium IDP (UCSF-FASEB), USC form, as part of a post-doc orientation? Post-doc leadership certificate program How to involve NYU-Abu Dhabi and Cornell-Ithaca Tracking their job outcomes – and later in career Industry post-docs? – MSR, Google for us at UW
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Post-doc Best Practices Meeting 10
Notes
ASU Multi-level support for post-docs: PI, dep’t, college, univ.\ ASU, UA, NAU + Science Foundation Arizona CSE post-docs in other depts: BMI, EE, Biodesign Most post-docs are foreign-born 4 REU grants CSE Post-doc academy Synthesis center – post-doc space, career devel skills Several social events already Looking for coordinator – almost an offer
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Post-doc Best Practices Meeting 11
Snowbird Panel - Sproull
90 minutes (1 of n parallel sessions)
Sproull summarizes the problem (white paper)
Jane summarizes CIFellows evaluation
Three programs – 10 minutes each – salient features, what is underway, web site, contacts
Brent talks about industry post-doc
50 minutes – then the rest q/a
Slides in advance so they can be merged into one package
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