1. NSF: US & China Collaboration

2. Recommendations to NSF NSF Supplementals Virtual orgs Good areas of research Health, energy, environment, education NSF can build policies in directions Ex. Required international collaborations Ex. CAREER awards Ex. Extra pages for substantive collaborations

3. Recommendations to NSF (contd) NSF social network between US and China Build on Summits (but with junior faculty) Reports / CACM Facebook for researchers / academia.edu A place to register interests (like CIFellows) Who to do collaborations with? Best practices of collaborations Feedback of successful collaborations Experiences / things that worked Mentoring too Social sciences Does NSFC support it? NSF work with China equivalent for development

4. Recommendations to NSF (contd) Better understanding of interests in China How to talk to political circle How to talk to our Congress people What should our priorities be? Leverage points palatable for politicians and good for research Better ways of presenting science The results of these scientific collaborations with China to US public Supplementals to hire science writers / buy press releases NSF office of legislative and public affairs Include international science in public science education Supporting exchange programs

5. Recommendations to NSF (contd) More workshops / with NSFC visitors and Chinese researchers Collocated with a conference / ML HCI Systems DB Specialized areas / birds of feather at conferences NSF funding for these workshops at conferences Encouraging our colleagues in China to hold similar workshops / NSFC Is Beijing office the point for more collaborations? Guidelines for peer review for NSF proposals

6. Recommendations to NSF (contd) Big bet from NSF The X for the 22 nd century (energy grid / smart grid) Would it fit under an existing program (STC / PIRE)? STC has emphasis on collaboration / partnerships but not international yet Perhaps ERC with international flavor Globalization of science Help researchers navigate IP issues and other intl collaboration issues Support US researchers hosting Chinese visitors for collaboration Best practices / funding mechanisms Requirement of Chinese faculty to visit places

7. Recommendations to NSF (contd) Collaboration software Google docs / Facebook / Wikipedia blocked Ex. organizing conferences Performance metrics Measuring impact Can’t be measured in the short-run Find longer-term metrics Curriculum Is there anything that can be done with undergrad / grad education here? Not competitive with US opportunities Can be done under existing programs (research and education) Boot camp for international collaborations / China

8. Community Recommendations Draft a paper for multidisciplinary journal Mailing list / Discussion board for ongoing discussions Get more people on US side engaged CACM article CRA newspaper IEEE Spectrum Science / Nature Science F / JCS / Thomson Ranked journals Document for non Chinese speakers about how to get started Get links from James about blogs Detailing better mechanisms to support Key researchers / interests / funding mechanisms / And why this is needed? Are we ok as is?