Doctoral Mentoring Consortium at International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2019

该奖学金将资助入选学生参加2019年8月10日至16日在中国澳门举行的国际人工智能联合会议（IJCAI）的博士指导联盟（DMC）。这是人工智能研究人员在一个完整的国际研究社区的首要国际会议。这项活动将汇集人工智能领域广泛的研究人员社区，并在这个关键的早期职业阶段支持初级研究人员。DMC为那些由于缺乏资源而没有参加人工智能会议的参与者创造了机会。对于那些规模较小的机构和那些人工智能项目不太发达的机构来说尤其如此。吸引这样的参与者有可能吸引更多的人才进入人工智能研究，在他们的形成阶段改进研究思路，并在学科的广度上产生合作。这个活动为学生提供了宝贵的机会，让他们在研究的关键时刻接触到外界对他们工作的看法，并使他们能够探索自己的职业目标。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

This grant supports student travel for select students to participate in the Doctoral Mentoring Consortium (DMC) at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) that will be held in Macao, China during August 10--16, 2019. This is the premier international conference for researchers in artificial intelligence research across a fully international research community. This activity will bring together a broad community of researchers in the field of AI and support junior researchers at this critical early-career stage. The DMC creates the opportunity to bring in participants who might not have attended an AI conference due to lack of resources. This is especially true for those at smaller institutions and those which have less developed AI programs. Engaging such participants has the potential to draw more talent into AI research, improve research ideas in their formative stage, and engender collaborations across the breadth of disciplines. This event provides students with invaluable exposure to outside perspectives on their work at a critical time in their research and enables them to explore their career objectives.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.