Award-winning researcher and STEM thought leader will deliver
the closing keynote at the second MS-CC annual meeting
WASHINGTON, April 25,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Fay Cobb Payton
— award-winning researcher, international speaker, and
entrepreneur — will deliver the closing keynote at the 2024
Annual Meeting for the Minority Serving - Cyberinfrastructure
Consortium (MS-CC), May 29-31, in
Washington, D.C.
The keynote, "The Importance of Inclusive Cyberinfrastructure,"
will be held at 11:45 a.m. ET on
Friday, May 31, at the Mayflower Hotel.
Research Expansion at Minority-Serving
Institutions
Payton is a visiting scholar of inclusive
innovation at Rutgers University -
Newark and a professor emerita of information technology and
analytics at North Carolina State
University.
Previously, Payton completed a rotation as program director at
the National Science Foundation (NSF), where she initiated the CISE
Minority Serving Institution Research Expansion Program, and her
tenure was recognized with the NSF Director's Award.
Payton worked on several initiatives at NSF, including Smart
Health and Biomedical Research in the Era of Artificial
Intelligence and Advanced Data Science; AI Fairness, Equity,
Accountability, and Transparency; and Research Expansion and Cloud
Computing with partnerships with Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.
A Voice for Change and Inclusion
Payton is the author
of Leveraging Intersectionality: Seeing and Not Seeing, and
she has published over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles,
conference publications, and book chapters on topics such as data
quality, AI bias and ethics, healthcare, and innovation.
She is a member of two National Academies of Science,
Engineering, and Medicine efforts: the Committee on Women in
Science, Engineering, and Medicine, and the dissemination team for
the Consensus Study on Transforming Trajectories: Women of Color in
Tech.
Payton has a bachelor's degree in industrial and systems
engineering from the Georgia Institute of
Technology, a bachelor's degree in accounting (minor in
mathematics) and a master's in business administration from
Clark Atlanta University, and a
doctorate in information and decision systems from Case Western Reserve University.
Second Annual Meeting
The MS-CC Annual Meetings are
gatherings of peers, practitioners, community-builders, advocates,
and leaders from historically Black colleges and universities
(HBCUs), tribal colleges and universities (TCUs), Hispanic-serving
institutions (HSIs), and the broader community of minority-serving
institutions (MSIs).
It is a once-a-year opportunity to come together and create a
space where HBCUs and TCUs lead the conversation around sustainable
campus-level IT capabilities for data-intensive education and
research programs.
The MS-CC Annual Meetings are made possible thanks to support
and funding from the National Science Foundation under awards
#2137123 and #2234326.
About the Minority Serving – Cyberinfrastructure Consortium
(MS-CC)
We envision a transformational consortium that
promotes advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) and advanced
technologies for teaching, learning, research, and enterprise
technology capabilities at historically under-resourced HBCUs,
TCUs, HSIs, and MSIs. We seek to lift participating institutions by
advancing technology infrastructure for research and education. We
will contribute the unique voices, cultural identities, and
interests of our community to research and education nationally and
beyond.
The MS-CC in partnership with Internet2 received funding from
the National Science Foundation to support this vision. Nearly
$3 million over two years to fund a
Cyberinfrastructure Center of Excellence Pilot in 2021 (NSF Award #
2137123), and nearly 15 million over five years to support
accelerating cyberinfrastructure-centric research capacity at HBCUs
and TCUs through proof-of-concept grants and shared resources in
2022 (NSF Award # 2234326). The MS-CC has also been awarded nearly
$2.5 million NSF supplement to
develop the MS-CC Collaboratory in Climate Science. The consortium
emerged from a pilot project funded by the National Science
Foundation through Clemson University
(NSF Award #1659297).
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