Personnel

Melvyn Ciment- Founder, Principal, Managing Member
Founder and Managing Member, The CS Cubed Group, providing strategic R&D consulting to science and technology performers and leaders in: academia, industry, government, and not-for-profit organizations in the development of cyber-infrastructure, computer and information science and technology research and education agendas, proposals and projects. Ciment has provided consulting services to strengthen proposals submitted to a wide variety of NSF and other agency programs by numerous universities, see list of prior clients. Previously he:

• Served for 5 years as Senior Advisor in the Washington Office of the Society for Industrial and Applied mathematics (SIAM) providing policy guidance.
• Provided consulting services to Chief Science Officer, HP, in developing, organizing and executing a NSF-supported workshop, "Accelerated Trustworthy Internetworking 2004."
• Provided consulting services to Erich Bloch, Principal, The Washington Advisory Group, on a variety of tasks in information technologies, and science and technology R&D.

Dr. Ciment completed his government service while serving for several years as Deputy Assistant Director for Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering at the National Science Foundation (NSF). From 1995-96, Dr. Ciment was on a special assignment, as a visiting scientist with the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland. During this period he also served as a consultant with the Council on Competitiveness (COC) and contributed to a COC study on R&D in the Information Technologies sector, as part of a larger study entitled, "Endless Frontier, Limited Resources: U.S. R&D Policy for Competitiveness."

Prior to coming to NSF, Dr. Ciment was a senior research scientist at the National Institutes for Standards and Technology and at the Naval Surface Weapons Center. He served as a Commerce Science and Technology Fellow with the U.S. Senate Commerce Science and Technology Committee from 1980-81. Dr. Ciment joined NSF in 1983 as a Program Director in Applied Mathematics. From 1986-91, he served as Deputy Director of the Division of Advanced Scientific Computing and helped establish the NSF Supercomputer Centers Program. Dr. Ciment served on numerous Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) working groups on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) including; Editor/Co-Editor of the first two HPCC Presidential Supplements, "Grand Challenges: High Performance Computing and Communications,"

Dr. Ciment received his bachelor's degree magna cum laude in mathematics from the University of Miami, and master’s and doctoral degrees in mathematics from New York University. He also holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Washington College of Law of American University and is a member of the bar in Maryland, DC and Florida. Dr. Ciment was selected for inclusion in, "Who's Who in the USA " in 1995, and in "American Men and Women of Science" in 1978, and was elected to serve on the Council of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, from 1988-90.