NSF Student Travel Grant for 2022 ACM Recommender Systems Conference

2022 年 ACM 推荐系统会议 NSF 学生旅行补助金

• 批准号: 2228556
• 负责人: Yi Zhang
• 金额: $ 1.44万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Cruz
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-07-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2228556&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Student; Travel; Grant; 2022

This is funding to partially support a Doctoral Research Symposium (workshop) of about 18 promising graduate students along with a panel of 8 distinguished researchers from academia and industry. This one day event will take place on Seattle in conjunction with the ACM 2022 ACM Recommender System Conference (RecSys). RecSys is the premier international forum for the presentation of new research results, systems, and techniques in the broad field of recommender systems. Recommendation systems leverage past user behaviors and user similarities to suggest things that are tailored tailored to a user’s preferences, and are used in a variety of contexts including social media, ecommerce, health, and entertainment. As RecSys brings together the main international research groups working on recommender systems, along with many of the world’s leading companies, it has become the most important annual conference for the presentation and discussion of recommender system research. Providing travel funding to rising PhD students in the field will both enrich the conference with novel research and provide useful feedback for the students themselves. The goals of the symposium are 1) provide a supportive setting for feedback on students’ current research and guidance on future research directions; 2) offer each student feedback and fresh perspectives on their work from faculty and students outside their own institution; 3) promote the development of a supportive community of researchers and a spirit of collaborative research; and 4) contribute to the conference goals through interaction with other researchers and conference events. During the symposium, each student will give a 15 minute presentation, followed by 20-25 minutes for feedback and discussion. Two of the symposium faculty will be assigned to provide primary feedback for each presenter; following this primary feedback there will be a period of open discussion with all participants. The feedback will be constructive with an eye towards shaping the field and upcoming participants in the research area, helping students understand and articulate how their work is positioned relative to related research, appropriately focus and scope their ideas for thesis research projects, and improve the choice and application of their methods and analyses. During the main conference, students will also present their dissertation work and plans in the form of a poster presentation; the work will be published in the RecSys main conference proceedings. The conference management committee will evaluate the doctoral research symposium, and the results will be made available to the organizers of future symposia.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.

这笔资金部分用于支持由18名有前途的研究生和8名来自学术界和工业界的杰出研究人员组成的小组组成的博士研究研讨会（研讨会）。这个为期一天的活动将与ACM 2022 ACM推荐系统会议（RecSys）一起在西雅图举行。RecSys是介绍推荐系统广泛领域的新研究成果、系统和技术的首要国际论坛。推荐系统利用过去的用户行为和用户相似度来根据用户的偏好量身定制建议，并在各种环境中使用，包括社交媒体、电子商务、健康和娱乐。由于RecSys汇集了从事推荐系统研究的主要国际研究小组，以及许多世界领先的公司，它已成为介绍和讨论推荐系统研究的最重要的年度会议。为在该领域崭露头角的博士生提供旅行资助，既可以用新颖的研究丰富会议，也可以为学生自己提供有用的反馈。研讨会的目标是1)提供一个支持性的环境，以反馈学生当前的研究和指导未来的研究方向；2)为每个学生提供来自校外教师和学生的反馈和对他们工作的新观点；3)促进研究人员互助社区和合作研究精神的发展；4)通过与其他研究人员和会议活动的互动，为会议目标做出贡献。在研讨会期间，每位学生将做15分钟的演讲，然后是20-25分钟的反馈和讨论。两名研讨会教师将被指派为每位演讲者提供主要反馈；在此主要反馈之后，将有一段时间与所有参与者进行公开讨论。反馈将是建设性的，着眼于塑造该领域和即将到来的研究领域参与者，帮助学生理解和阐明他们的工作相对于相关研究的定位，适当地关注和确定他们的论文研究项目的想法，并改进他们的方法和分析的选择和应用。在主会议期间，学生还将以海报展示的形式展示他们的论文工作和计划；这项工作将发表在RecSys主要会议论文集上。会议管理委员会将对博士研究研讨会进行评估，评估结果将提供给未来研讨会的组织者。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。