Research Committee
Mandate
” The Research Committee solicits input from the CS research community and works to shape government action and funding policies to further the progress of Computer Science research and support computer science researchers. It also advises the community about government and funding agency programs and policies and facilitates the sharing of best practices of how to use them.”
Liaison Committee
NSERC-CS-Can|Info-Can Liaison Committee
Study Report
Study of the Relevance of Canadian Funding Programs to CS Researchers
Mission
The mission of the Research Committee is to help further the CS research agenda, make sure that researchers are aware of new funding opportunities and the trends in research funding priorities, and that the needs of all CS researchers are well represented when helping the Science Policy makers in the Government, Industry Canada and granting agencies craft their program, priorities and policies. We need to educate both Universities and Granting Councils about discipline-specific evaluation criteria, for example, we should work on including highly selective CS conferences into bibliometric databases and metrics.
Goals
- Make the case that CS research is relevant to everything that is important for society: economy, health, environment, safety and resilience, inequality etc.
- Educate the other sciences and society about the importance of CS research, not just the tools created by CS that are already in use.
- Listen to the CS community to find the new promising research areas for which we should be lobbying for funding.
- Develop mechanisms, learning from the Computer Research Association (CRA) experience developing a mechanism based on wide participation of researchers (wisdom of crowds approach): individual researchers propose such areas, and facilitates team building for large collaborative projects or networks across the country.
- Provide the leg-work, design mechanisms, find contacts, pass on information appropriately to other CS-Can | Info-Can Board committees, e.g. the Education or Outreach committee or to government funding agencies (NSERC, MITACS, CFI).
Composition of the Research Committee
The Research Committee is relatively small to allow for agility and better interaction. In order to ensure that the voices of the board and diverse Canadian CS community are heard, a Research Advisory Committee (RAC) is established for consulting the Research Committee on specific questions.
Committee Members
Bettina Kemme
Vice President (2021-2024)
Professor
McGill University
Vlado Keselj
(2023-2026)
Professor
Dalhousie University
Tamer Ozsu
University of Waterloo
Foutse Khomh
Ecole Polytechnique
Mario Nascimento
Northeastern University