USENIX FAST 2017 NSF Student Travel Support

该奖项旨在帮助大约15名美国研究生参加在加利福尼亚州圣克拉拉举行的第15届USENIX和ACM SIGOPS文件和存储技术会议（FAST 2017）。 参加FAST 2017和类似的会议是研究生院经验的宝贵和重要的一部分。它为学生提供了与更资深的研究人员互动的机会，并使学生接触到这一重要研究领域的领先工作和实际行业实践。过去的资助获得者已经继续经营自己的研究实验室，并组织包括FAST在内的会议，该计划对存储研究的影响的长期价值已经得到了充分的认可。

This award is to assist approximately 15 US-based graduate students to attend the 15th USENIX and ACM SIGOPS Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST 2017) in Santa Clara, CA. Participation in FAST 2017 and similar conferences is a valuable and important part of the graduate school experience. It provides students with the opportunity to interact with more senior researchers, and exposes students to leading work and practical industry practices in this important area of research.Past grant recipients have gone on to run their own research labs and organize conferences including FAST, and the long term merits of this program's impact on storage research is well established.