NSF Student Travel Grant for 2022 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC 2022)

2022年IEEE射频集成电路研讨会(RFIC‘22)是一年一度的国际研讨会，是一个主要论坛，专门展示射频(RF)、毫米波和无线集成电路(IC)的最新研究成果。RFIC‘22将于6月19-21日在科罗拉多州会议中心举行。该研讨会是2022年微波周的一部分，该周是世界上最大的射频和微波技术会议。参加RFIC‘22将使美国学生接触到美国国家利益的这一关键研究领域(例如5G/6G无线)，增强学生的研究体验，并为新的合作提供更多机会来推进知识。然而，参加RFIC‘22的费用一年比一年贵(交通费、住宿费和注册费都更贵)，并不是每个研究人员都有资金让他们的学生去RFIC’22。此外，本科生很少有机会获得资助，因为他们在职业生涯的早期通常不参与研究。然而，年轻学生的出席很重要，因为他们代表着RFIC‘22的未来。学生还可以通过参加关于最新研究的报告、建立新的联系和参与各种会议活动而受益匪浅。因此，NSF RFIC‘22旅行津贴可以帮助显著提高学生出勤率。鼓励学生参加RFIC‘22研讨会、专门的学生论坛、小组讨论、演示、教程、展览和参加论文演示特别有用。拟议的活动可能会显著提高在STEM(科学、技术、工程和数学)领域的女性、残疾人和代表性不足的少数族裔的参与率，使其符合RFIC‘22。它将有助于提高美国学生的STEM教育水平。它还可以帮助美国发展多样化的、具有全球竞争力的STEM劳动力队伍，并增加学术界、产业界和政府之间的合作伙伴关系，以提高美国的经济竞争力。RFIC‘22提供了许多特别有利于学生研究人员的活动，包括技术讲座、聚焦学生论坛(在RFIC研讨会历史上第一次)、互动演示会议、研讨会、教程、技术讲座、展览、三分钟论文(3MT)竞赛计划，以及其他有针对性的学生活动。由于IEEE RFIC研讨会是世界上了解射频IC设计、技术和研究的主要活动之一，学生们能够获得对他们工作的反馈，与来自政府、工业和学术界的高级研究人员交谈，并接触到最新的研究成果。这些活动为学生提供最新信息，并与来自政府、行业和学术界的世界专家直接互动，并提供典型大学课程无法提供的独特培训。在新冠肺炎大流行之前的过去三年里，RFIC研讨会是一个为期三天的活动，有900多名注册与会者，其中包括每年约300名学生，而且还在不断增加。我们将使用这笔NSF旅行基金全额资助12名美国学生的参与(即支付总费用)。NSF学生旅行补助计划将在RFIC‘22网站上进行宣传，并通过重点关注学生活动的特殊电子邮件爆炸进行宣传；它还将发布在社交媒体上(如Facebook、LinkedIn等)。我们还将联系美国大学的教职员工，要求他们宣传这项资助，并鼓励他们的过去和现在的学生申请它。这笔资金将用于任何一所美国大学的全日制学生。RFIC‘22组织者试图通过瞄准女性、本科生和代表性不足的群体来增加学生参与者。其目的是支持那些因经济困难而无法参加RFIC‘22的年轻研究人员，同时鼓励该领域的多样性。该奖项反映了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 2022 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC'22) is an annual international symposium that serves as a premier forum focused exclusively on presenting the latest state-of-the-art research results in radio-frequency (RF), millimeter-wave, and wireless integrated circuits (ICs). The RFIC'22 will be held at the Colorado Convention Center, June 19-21. The Symposium is part of Microwave Week 2022, the world's largest RF and microwave technical convention. Participation at RFIC'22 will expose US-based students to this critical research field of US national interests (e.g., 5G/6G wireless), enhance the research experiences for students, and provide increased opportunities for new collaborations to advance knowledge. However, attending RFIC'22 is getting more expensive each year (transportation, lodging, and registration fees all more costly), and not every researcher has the funds to allow their students to travel to RFIC'22. Moreover, undergraduate students are rarely getting the opportunity for funding as they are typically not engaging in research in their early career. Yet, young students' attendance is important because they represent the future of RFIC'22. Students also benefit tremendously by attending presentations on the latest research, making new connections, and participating in the various conference events. Thus, the NSF RFIC'22 travel grant can help increase student attendance in a significant manner. It is particularly useful to encourage student participation in RFIC'22 workshops, dedicated students forums, panels, demos, tutorials, exhibition, and attending papers presentations. The proposed activity may noticeably improve the participation of US-based students who are female, persons with disabilities, and underrepresented minorities in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields to RFIC'22. It will help enhance the STEM education proficiencies for US-based students. It can also help the development of a diverse, globally competitive STEM workforce in the US, and increase partnerships between academia, industry, and government to increase economic competitiveness of the United States.RFIC'22 offers a number of events specifically beneficial to student researchers, which include technical talks, focused student forums (1st time in the RFIC Symposium history), interactive demo session, workshops, tutorials, technical lecture, exhibition, the three-minute thesis (3MT) competition program, and other targeted student activities. As IEEE RFIC Symposium is one of the world's premier events to learn about RF IC design, technology and research, students are able to obtain feedbacks on their work, talk with senior researchers from government, industry, and academia, and get exposed to the latest research. These activities provide the students the latest updates and direct interactions with world experts from government, industry, and academia, and provide unique training that is not possible from a typical university program. Over the last three years before the COVID-19 pandemic, RFIC Symposium has been a three-day event with over 900 registered attendees, including about 300 students annually and keep growing. We will use this NSF travel fund to fully fund the participation of 12 US-based students (i.e., covering the total cost). The NSF student travel grant program will be publicized on the RFIC'22 website and through special email blasts that will focus on students' activities; it will also be posted on social media (e.g., Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.). We will also reach out to faculty in US universities and ask them to publicize the grant and encourage their past and current class students to apply for it. The funding will be for full-time students from any U.S. university. RFIC'22 organizers seek to increase student participants by targeting women, undergraduates, and under-represented groups. The aim is to support young researchers who might not otherwise be able to attend RFIC'22 due to financial difficulty, as well as to encourage the diversity of the field.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.