NSF Student Travel Grant for 2018 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC)

由电气和电子工程师协会（IEEE）主办的车辆网络会议（VNC）是车辆网络，应用和系统领域的旗舰国际会议。VNC 2018延续了自2009年开始的过去九届年会的传统，展示和发布涉及车辆网络，应用和系统各个方面的高质量研究。IEEE VNC强调研究潜力，激发创新和突破性想法，并确定其短期和中期开发目标。本次大会的特色是公开征集论文、海报和演示环节、应用竞赛、主题演讲和小组讨论。该奖项将支持约20名美国学生参加将于2018年12月5日至7日在台湾台北举行的IEEE VNC 2018。参加这样的高水平技术活动对未来的研究人员来说是非常有价值的。这次会议将提供一个独特的教育经验。参加的学生将接触到最先进的车载网络，应用和系统领域;学生也将有机会与杰出的研究人员和其他机构的研究生进行互动。非正式的讨论机会有可能塑造学生未来的职业生涯。学生旅行支持的目标是鼓励研究兴趣和参与的学生谁是没有足够的资金，代表性不足，或否则不太可能能够参加高知名度的会议车辆网络，应用和系统。将优先考虑那些由于无法获得旅行资金而不太可能参加的非作者，以及代表性不足的少数群体。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC), sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), is a flagship international conference in the vehicular networking, applications, and systems area. VNC 2018 continues the tradition of the past nine annual meetings starting in 2009 in presenting and publishing high quality research dealing with all aspects of vehicular networking, applications and systems. IEEE VNC highlights research potentials, stimulates novel and breakthrough ideas, and identifies their short and medium term exploitation goals. The conference features an open call for papers, poster and demo sessions, an app contest, a keynote talk and panel discussions.This award will support approximately 20 students in the United States to attend IEEE VNC 2018, which will be held in Taipei, Taiwan on December 5-7, 2018. Attending a high-caliber technical event such as this is extremely valuable for future researchers. The conference will offer a unique educational experience. Students attending will be exposed to the start-of-the-art in the field of vehicular networking, applications and systems; students will also have the opportunity to interact with both distinguished researchers and fellow graduate students from other institutions. The informal opportunities for discussion have the potential to shape the future careers of the students. The goal of the student travel support is to encourage research interest and involvement of students who are not well funded, under-represented, or otherwise not likely to be able to attend high-profile conferences on vehicular networking, applications and systems. Priority will be given to non-authors who are unlikely to attend due to the unavailability of travel funding, and to under-represented minority groups.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.