Performance Measures & Objectives
We have defined numerous metrics for LI success, including hiring of researchers, starting statewide interdisciplinary research projects and obtaining national funding, developing corporate partnership programs and companies, ensuring interdisciplinary and multi-institutional collaboration, and creating new education programs. The LI management will closely monitor these measures, and take action as needed to ensure they are met or exceeded.
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| Objective | Metric | Success Criteria |
| Full-time faculty hires 2 per institution | 6 by EO Y2; 12 (total) by EO Y3. Nucleation of 6 new multi-institutional research groups by Y3. | |
| Scientific Coordinator | Person hired | 1 hire, fall Y1; new hire in 6 months if vacant |
| LI graduate students | Graduate students funded by LI | 6 in each 2 year period; 18 students total over life of project |
| LI Computational Scientists | Staff hired | 6 hired by fall Y1; new staff hired in 6 months if position(s) becomes vacant |
| LI Growth of LONI to national status | Receive federal funding for additional staff | 12 staff funded from federal sources by EOY5 | Research |
| Objective | Metric | Success Criteria |
| LONI Computational Scientists | LI projects underway | 12 new projects underway by EOY1; 18 new projects per year thereafter; at least 80 total; 25% projects permitted to be continued for new advances; 25% corporate |
| State faculty, staff, and student trained and using LONI infrastructure | Number of applications for time, projects using compute, data, network, and software services | All LI projects use LONI, 400 active users from State, 12 from each LI members, medical centers and community college system |
| National proposals | LI-funded faculty-led national agency proposals, submitted, funded | 50% of LI projects lead to funding from outside the State (e.g., NSF, DOE, NIH) or industrial funding in Y2 and subsequent years; 2 proposals submitted per year, per LI Fellow, starting in Y2, 96 total, 10 new projects funded total |
| Research computing project resources | Successful computational infrastructure/cycle applications | 50% of projects lead to nationally-judged computational infrastructure awards in Y2 and subsequent years |
| Research publicity | Invited presentations and lectures outside LA | Each project leads to 2 per year starting in Y2; 160 total |
| Scientific & Engineering Results | Peer-reviewed conference and journal publications that acknowledge LI support | 3 per LONI Fellow per year; 1 per Associated Faculty per year; over 150 total |
| National Computing Center | LI personnel successful | 1 national federally-funded computing facility, funded with at least $70M |
| LI research impact | New non-LI-funded faculty working with LI | 6 per year starting in Y2 | Economic Development |
| Objective | Metric | Success Criteria |
| Student internships with companies | Number of placements | 2 students place each year; 20 total (not all will be LI-funded) |
| Pilot program with Council on Competitiveness | Program established | 15 students at community college trained in CSs each year, 30 total placed in companies, 10 enter universities for continued study in CSs |
| Industrial partnerships | Partnerships in projects with industrial partner (any company who has joint project with LONI) | 25% of total projects; 20 partners in 5 years |
| Industry grants | Sponsored research from companies | 25 by Y5 across all sites |
| Centers of Excellence (UIRCs) | Number formed with multi-year duration | 1 by EOY3, 3 by EOY4, 5 by EOY5, all industry-funded with at least 1 industry staff member on-site (across all LI sites) |
| Companies formed | Number of new companies | 1 by EOY3, 3 by EOY4, 6 by EOY5 | Collaboration |
| Objective | Metric | Success Criteria |
| Between computational scientists and biologists, materials | Joint papers and proposals | 2 interdisciplinary papers (including preprints from a LI preprint series) per group per year; 1 at interface between bio, materials, computation per group per year; 50% of proposals have 2 of 3 disciplines |
| Inter-university | Number of joint papers, proposals | 2 papers, 1 proposal (including preprints from a LI preprint series) per group per year |
| Inter-university | New joint projects | 30 new multi-university projects proposed to SC per year |
| National | Visits to national labs | 3 students, 2 staff, and 6 faculty with visits to national labs per year, 2-3 each summer | Education & Training |
| Objective | Metric | Success Criteria |
| Statewide education | HD video courses offered | 4 courses per year with students from 4 universities, and 20 total students per course receiving credit. |
| Statewide training | Number of training workshops, people trained | Initially 2 HPC & CSs workshops offered per year, increasing to 4 by Y5; at least 50 people trained each year, 400 total |
| High school education | Summer camps | 1 per year for LI members |
| High school courses | Teachers offer LI-related material in courses | 10 new per year starting in Y2 |