Supporting Student Participation and Distinguished Speakers in the Biomedical Engineering Research Community for IEEE International Conference on Digital Health 2021

支持 2021 年 IEEE 国际数字健康会议生物医学工程研究社区的学生参与和杰出演讲者

• 批准号: 2135031
• 负责人: Sheikh Ahamed
• 金额: $ 1.3万
• 依托单位: Marquette University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-10-01 至 2022-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2135031&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Supporting; Student; Participation; Distinguished; Speakers

This proposal provides support for students, mentors, speakers, and postdoctoral attendees for professional development activities in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Digital Health (ICDH). ICDH and its associated activities will take place virtually, between September 5 and 10, 2021. The funds will be used to fund about 40 students’ registration fees, research competition prizes, and small stipends for faculty mentors, distinguished speakers, and postdoctoral scholars, with the goal of providing high-quality mentoring experiences and broadening participation in the conference to include more members of groups historically underrepresented in STEM fields. Doing this will serve both societal goals around broadening participation, enrich the intellectual diversity of the conference, improve dissemination of the latest results around digital health to a wider population, and further the training of the next generation of researchers interested in digital health. The mentoring will be structured around two main activities. The first is a research project-based competition targeting biomedical engineering and healthcare projects in the domains of diabetes, blood pressure management, cancer management, and independent living for older adults. Graduate students (and postdocs, on a case-by-case basis) will apply to conduct projects of their choice in the competition as either individuals or small teams, with the competition advertised widely including to minority-serving institutions. Accepted project proposals will be chosen by a panel of judges; these proposers will participate in a one day research workshop and presentation competition where they will receive feedback and mentoring from the panel of judges. Participating students will also have half-day virtual mentoring sessions guided by distinguished faculty speakers with expertise in the focal areas of the competition, in which students and mentors will collaboratively explore research challenges in the areas above. The funding will also support participation from experts that will broaden the ICDH in two conference-wide panels on the topics of AI-supported cancer and cardiology treatment.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.

该提案为学生，导师，演讲者和博士后参与者提供支持，以便与IEEE数字健康国际会议（ICDH）一起开展专业发展活动。ICDH及其相关活动将于2021年9月5日至10日期间虚拟举行。这笔资金将用于资助约40名学生的注册费，研究竞赛奖金以及教师导师，杰出演讲者和博士后学者的小额津贴，目的是提供高质量的指导经验，并扩大会议的参与范围，以包括更多在STEM领域历史上代表性不足的团体成员。这样做将有助于实现扩大参与的社会目标，丰富会议的知识多样性，改善数字健康相关最新成果向更广泛人群的传播，并进一步培训对数字健康感兴趣的下一代研究人员。辅导将围绕两项主要活动进行。第一个是以研究项目为基础的竞赛，目标是糖尿病、血压管理、癌症管理和老年人独立生活领域的生物医学工程和医疗保健项目。研究生（和博士后，在个案的基础上）将申请在竞争中进行他们选择的项目，无论是个人或小团队，与竞争广泛宣传，包括少数民族服务机构。被接受的项目提案将由一个评委小组选出;这些提案人将参加为期一天的研究研讨会和演讲比赛，在那里他们将获得评委小组的反馈和指导。参赛学生还将参加为期半天的虚拟指导课程，由在比赛重点领域拥有专业知识的杰出教师演讲者指导，学生和导师将在其中协作探索上述领域的研究挑战。该基金还将支持专家参与ICDH关于人工智能支持的癌症和心脏病治疗主题的两个会议范围的小组。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而被认为值得支持。