NSF Student Travel Grant for 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)

2018年电气电子工程师学会(IEEE)国际通信大会(ICC)将于2018年5月20日至24日在密苏里州堪萨斯城举行。这次卓越的技术会议是IEEE通信学会的旗舰会议之一，也是展示通信和网络领域新研究成果的主要场所。它受到了该领域的研究者和实践者的广泛关注。参加国际商会这样的会议对研究生的发展至关重要。与会者有机会介绍他们的工作，参加小组和主题会议，并与该领域数百名其他前沿研究人员互动。广泛影响：这项提议为大约15名美国研究生提供旅行支持，参加15年后将在美国举行的首次会议。旅行奖项将针对第一次参加会议的人和代表不足的少数族裔学生，因为参加会议是他们教育经历的重要组成部分，而且他们的旅行资金往往有限。研究界和工程界受益于学生的进步和新的研究视角的引入。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The 2018 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Conference on Communications (ICC) will be held in Kansas City, Missouri from May 20 to May 24, 2018. This preeminent technical conference is one of the flagship conferences of the IEEE Communications Society, and a primary venue for presenting new research results in the area of communications and networking. It is widely attended by researchers and practitioners in the field. Attending conferences such as ICC is of paramount importance for the development of graduate students. Participants have the opportunity to present their work, attend panel and keynote sessions, and interact with hundreds of other leading-edge researchers in the field.Broader Impact: This proposal provides travel support for approximately fifteen graduate students in the United States to attend this premiere conference, which will be held in the US after 15 years. The travel awards will target first-time attendees and under-represented minority students, since attending conferences is an important part of their educational experience, and they often have limited travel funds. The research community and the Engineering workforce benefit from the improvement of students in the pipeline, and the introduction of new researcher perspectives.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.