My 2nd trial for the NSF CAREER proposal has been declined. The review comments were encouraging, but I don’t have any more chance to submit the proposal because, most likely, this year is my last academic year as an assistant professor.
I drastically changed the research topics in my PhD work to this proposal. I took a new and challenging route to pursue my dream research in bio-inspired machine intelligence. I did my best to prepare this prestigious grant proposal. So, I don’t have any regrets, but I am very disappointed with this result anyway. Yet, I have to keep going with new strategies.