Computing Research Association

📣 Applications are now open for the inaugural CRA-E Chicago-Area Regional Summit for Teaching-track Faculty in Computing, taking place June 30, 2026, in Chicago, Illinois.

This new CRA-E event will bring together teaching-track faculty in computing at PhD-granting institutions for a full day of discussion, networking, and idea-sharing around:

🎓 Pedagogical strategies and classroom best practices
🤝 Professional development and promotion preparation
🤖 AI and computing education
🌟 Leadership, scholarship, and community-building

The program will also feature lightning talks and interactive discussions designed to connect teaching-track faculty across the region.

✅ Participation is free.
📅 Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis through June 23.

Learn more and apply: https://cra.jotform.com/261393956461163

Meet the faces advocating for and shaping the future of AI education! 🤖

Continuing our series highlighting our newly announced NSF NAIRR AI Education Fellows, this week we’re celebrating Ananya Jana! 🌟

Ananya Jana, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Marshall University, West Virginia. Her research lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence and computer vision, with a primary focus on medical imaging. She develops deep learning methods for disease assessment. Through the NAIRR AI Education Fellowship, Jana seeks to expand equitable access to AI research infrastructure and design hands-on, research-driven learning experiences that empower students to build, evaluate, and deploy responsible AI systems.

We’re inspired by her passion to make AI accessible to all!

CRA proudly congratulates members of the computing research community who have recently been recognized as 2025 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2026 Members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAA&S), and 2026 Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

These honors reflect extraordinary contributions to computing research, innovation, and leadership across the field. We’re especially proud to celebrate those honorees who have also volunteered their time and expertise in support of CRA programs, committees, workshops, and community initiatives.

Read more: https://cra.org/crn/2026/05/cra-congratulates-new-aaas-and-siam-fellows-and-aaas-members-2026/

Special congratulations as well to several honorees with ties to CRA who were highlighted in greater detail in the May CRN, including Tanya Berger-Wolf, Aaron Clauset, Chris Clifton, Kevin Crowston, Hai “Helen” Li, Dongyan Xu, Daphne Yao, Magdalena Balazinska, Michael Littman, Rada Mihalcea, Shwetak Patel, Tim Roughgarden, Tandy Warnow, and Onur Mutlu.

CRA Congratulates New AAAS and SIAM Fellows and AAA&S Members By Matt Hazenbush, Director of Communications and Member Engagement The Computing Research Association (CRA) proudly congratulates members of the computing research community who have recently been…

Don't miss the recap of the Computing Community Consortium’s second-ever Community Chat, where leading researchers explored how citizen scientists and advanced computing researchers can — and should — be working together more.

The conversation covered everything from underutilized AI/ML feedback loops to fragile volunteer trust to infrastructure that hasn't kept pace with global science. Plus two lightning talks with some eye-opening points on just how foundational citizen science already is to AI research.

Read the full recap and watch the recording here:

A New Era of Scientific Progress: Highlights from the CCC Community Chat » CCC Blog The second-ever CCC Community Chat, A New Era of Scientific Progress: Uniting Computational and Citizen Science for Advanced Research, took place on Wednesday, May 20, 2026. Moderated by CCC Council Member Michela Taufer (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), this virtual webinar featured the co-auth...

Meet the faces advocating for and shaping the future of AI education! 🤖

Continuing our series highlighting our newly announced NSF NAIRR AI Education Fellows, this week we’re celebrating Stephen Hutt! 🌟

Stephen Hutt is an Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Minnesota and co-director of the Learning Informatics Lab. His research sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence, the learning sciences, and human-centered design, focusing on how students engage with complex learning environments, how self-regulated learning and metacognitive processes unfold over time, and how AI can be designed to support rather than replace these processes.

We’re inspired by his passion to help facilitate human–centered AI practices in academia and industry!

The Computing Community Consortium's latest brief breaks down key recommendations for merging advanced computing with public participation in science:

How to Leverage Advanced Computing with Public Participation to Enhance Scientific Research: Key Takeaways » CCC Blog The Computing Community Consortium’s (CCC) latest report, Grand Challenges for the Convergence of Computational and Citizen Science Research, lays out the potential of citizen science research and advanced computing technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), when brought together, to revoluti...

The Computing Research Association is saddened to learn of the passing of Richard A. Tapia. Winner of the inaugural CRA A. Nico Habermann Award, Tapia was a renowned mathematician and served as a distinguished professor at Rice University. Much of his work focused on empowering underrepresented students and educators in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Read the full obituary announcement from Rice University:

Richard Tapia, pioneering mathematician and advocate for diversity, passes away at 88 Richard A. Tapia, a distinguished professor at Rice and a trailblazing mathematician renowned for his dedication to increasing the participation of underrepresented minorities in science and engineering, has passed away at age 88.

The CISE PhD Admissions Processes Survey is designed to better understand how applications are evaluated in practice, how programs form cohorts, and how structural realities like funding and advising capacity influence decisions.

The findings will help clarify expectations for prospective applicants and provide useful comparative context for departments reflecting on their own processes.
If you’ve participated in CISE PhD admissions within the past five years, we invite you to contribute your perspective.

🕒 ~10 minutes
📊 Reported only in aggregate
👉 Take the survey: https://cerp.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9zZSBbOESmRmN1k
Responses due May 31, 2026.

Read our full interview with Ritesh Kanchi, a 2025 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers Honorable Mention: https://cra.org/crn/2026/05/undergraduate-research-highlight-developing-intelligent-user-interfaces-for-accessibility/