Travel: NSF Student Travel Grant for 2024 New England Hardware Security Day (NEHWS2024)

新英格兰硬件安全研讨会是一个区域性的、为期一天的会议，旨在将硬件安全研究人员、行业参与者和学生聚集在一起，以发展这些团体之间的联系和合作。今年的研讨会将于2024年4月5日在马萨诸塞州伍斯特举行。该奖项将资助学生参加研讨会，增加学生的数量和多样性，他们可以从参加研讨会中受益。参与的学生将能够在海报会议上展示他们的作品，让他们从各种专家那里得到反馈。该奖项将为多达100名学生提供旅行支持；讲习班的区域性质进一步减少了旅费，与大多数会议相比，就其职业阶段和硬件安全经验而言，可容纳范围更广的学生参加者。特别是，研讨会将针对尚未参加国家会议的早期研究人员，以及来自学科和个人背景的学生，他们可能不会考虑参加硬件安全会议。这既增加了参与者在未来工作中接触硬件安全主题的机会，也为参与者提供了与潜在未来雇主联系的途径。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。

The New England Hardware Security workshop is a regional, one-day conference designed to bring together hardware security researchers, industry participants, and students in order to develop connections and collaborations between these groups. This year's workshop will take place April 5, 2024, in Worcester, MA. This award will fund student participation in the workshop, increasing the number and diversity of students who can benefit from attending. Participating students will be able to present their work at poster sessions, allowing them to get feedback from a variety of experts.This award will provide travel support to up to 100 students; the regional nature of the workshop further reduces travel costs, accommodating a much wider range of student participants in terms of their career stage and experience in hardware security than most conferences. In particular, the workshop will target early-stage researchers who are not yet attending national conferences, as well as students from disciplinary and personal backgrounds that might not otherwise think to attend a conference on hardware security. This will both increase the chances that participants take up hardware security topics in their future work, as well as provide participants with ways to connect with potential future employers.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.