Thanks to the generous support from the National Science Foundation, we will provide scholarship awards to selected US-based students attending the WSDM 2023 conference.
For awardees attending in-person, the grant will cover the cost of registration + some travel expenses. For awardees attending virtually, the grant will cover the cost of registration. The awards will be competitive in the sense that not every student will receive a Travel Award.
Awardees are expected to register to the main conference and will have to make their own arrangements for travel and accommodation.
Eligibility
Applicants need to be a full-time student (undergraduate or graduate) at a US-based academic institution. Applicants also need to be a SIGIR, SIGKDD, SIGMOD, or SIGWEB member at the time of applying to this award (to become a member of ACM SIGs, you don’t need to be a member of the ACM — as an example, students can join SIGMOD for $10).
Applicants do not need to have an accepted paper to be eligible. The selection will be made based on the following criteria:
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Students selected to present at the doctoral symposium will be given priority.
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Students from under-represented groups will be given priority.
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PhD students actively pursuing research and close to degree completion with papers accepted in the main conference or workshops will be given priority.
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Finally, junior PhD students and MS students with papers accepted in the main conference or workshops will be given priority.
Application Procedure
Please submit the following materials (in a single PDF file) with your application:
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Student’s full name and email address.
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Name and address of student’s school.
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Advisor’s full name and email address.
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SIG membership data
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A one-page abstract from the student, summarizing a broad view of his/her research with motivation, problem description, approach, and progress; the abstract must be written in English and needs to comply with the two-column ACM proceedings format.
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A 1-2 page CV of the student.
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(Optional) demographic data for reporting purposes: Gender, Ethnic background
To apply for a grant, the student must submit the necessary materials through the website no later than December 8, 2022 February 3, 2023 (AoE).