Twenty-First AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium

AAAI博士联盟(DC)聚集了知名研究人员和职业生涯中期的博士生，参加为期两天的研讨会，学生和教职员工在一系列环境中互动，提供正式和非正式的职业和研究指导。作为鼓励年轻和未来人工智能研究人员的一种手段，AAAI博士联盟已被证明是一种相对便宜和极其有效的模式。许多目前的评审员、导师、组织者和小组成员曾经是以前AAAI DC的学生参与者。AAAI博士联盟的智力价值在于，初级研究人员有独特的机会从他们所在社区的资深研究人员那里获得与其职业生涯相关的学术和社会问题的高质量反馈。作为DC计划的一部分，导师和学生在会议、小组讨论、工作午餐以及口头演示和讨论中进行互动。对于许多学生来说，这是唯一一次从他们家乡的论文委员会成员以外的研究人员那里获得有针对性的意见的机会。学生不仅有机会就自己的论文研究发表演讲，并收到对工作的具体反馈，还有机会讨论更多的个人问题，比如在完成博士学业后从事研究工作时平衡工作和家庭。

The AAAI Doctoral Consortium (DC) brings together established researchers and mid-career Ph.D. students for a two-day workshop where students and faculty interact in a range of settings to provide both formal and informal career and research mentoring. As a means of encouraging young and upcoming researchers in Artificial Intelligence, the AAAI Doctoral Consortium has been proven to be a relatively inexpensive and extremely effective model. Many of the current reviewers, mentors, organizers, and panelists were once student participants in prior AAAI DCs.The Intellectual Merit of the AAAI Doctoral Consortium lies in the unique opportunity for junior researchers to gain high quality feedback on academic and social issues relevant to their career, from senior researchers within their community. As part of the DC program, mentors and students interact in meetings, panels, working lunches, and during oral presentations and discussions. For many students, this is the only opportunity to receive focused input from researchers other than members of their dissertation committee at their home institution. Students not only gain the experience of giving a talk on their thesis research and receiving specific feedback on their work, they also are given the opportunity to discuss more personal issues, such as balancing work and family when pursuing a research career after completion of their Ph.D. studies.