The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is delighted National Science Foundation (NSF) Director France Córdova has selected Margaret Martonosi as the next head of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate at NSF! Martonosi will assume the role of Assistant Director (AD), CISE on February 1, 2020. 

“On behalf of myself, the CCC, and the computing research community, we are thrilled with the selection of Margaret Martonosi as CISE AD,” said Mark D. Hill, CCC Chair. “I have known Margaret for three decades and admired her creative work ranging from hardware power efficiency to a deep, formal understanding of memory consistency models. For the CCC, I am particularly impressed with her co-running of ‘Next Steps in Quantum Computing: Computer Science’s Role’ that brought together theoreticians, computer systems researchers, and physicists to produce a ‘full stack’ roadmap to make QC programming and implementation more practical. For the computing research community, I expect that her sustained first-rate research, teaching, and service will inform excellent leadership from Margaret in our current era of great computing change and equally great impact on society.”

CCC has worked closely with Martonosi for many years including recently as the co-chair of our Next Steps in Quantum Computing: Computer Science’s Role Workshop. She and her co-organizers tackled a number of open questions such as new methods for circuit synthesis and optimization, compiler optimizations and rewriting, embedded languages versus non-embedded languages, implementations of type systems and error reporting for quantum languages, and techniques for verifying the correctness of quantum programs. The workshop report can be found here. 

Thank you to former CISE AD Jim Kurose for your inspired leadership. The community would not be where it is without your guidance over the past 5 years. 

Congratulations, Margaret! We look forward to continuing to work with you!