Priyanka Raina has received an NSF CAREER award for her proposal, “A Framework for Co-design and Optimization of Programmable Hardware Accelerators and Compilers.” The National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Activities pursued by early-career faculty should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research.