Student Travel Support for the IEEE SECON 2017 Conference

该奖项的目标是扩大参加通信领域主要会议——IEEE通信学会传感、通信和网络会议（SECON）的受众，并因此提高互动水平和新合作、新调查和更高质量研究的潜力。美国国家科学基金会通过该奖项为在美国就读的研究生提供支持。IEEE SECON发表关于传感器网络和物联网的顶级研究，是该领域的四大会议之一。出席会议是研究人员生活中至关重要的一部分。通过为学生（特别是那些来自代表性不足群体的学生）创造参加高质量会议的新机会，该项目将在几个方面使研究界受益。学生自己也受益于在一个有利的环境中与许多其他研究人员见面和互动的机会，以及参加可能与他们的研究领域相关的研究报告。研究界受益于正在培养的学生的提高，以及新的研究人员视角的引入。此外，每个人都受益于参加会议的参与者的多样性。

The goal of this award is to broaden the audience attending a premier conference in communications, the IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON), and as a result, raise the level of interaction and the potential for new collaborations, new investigations, and higher quality research. Support from the National Science Foundation is provided through this award for graduate students attending institutions in the United States. IEEE SECON publishes top-tier research on sensor networks and the Internet of Things, and is one of the top four conferences in this space. Conference attendance is a crucial part of the life of a researcher. By creating new opportunities for students (especially those from under-represented groups) to attend a high-quality conference, this project will benefit the research community in several ways. The students themselves benefit from the opportunity to meet and interact with many other researchers in a favorable setting, and from attending research presentations that may be related to their research areas. The research community benefits from the improvement of the students in the pipeline, and from the introduction of new researcher perspectives. Additionally, everybody benefits from increased diversity of participants attending the conference.