Career Mentoring Forum and Student Travel Support for 2012 IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)

该奖项为参加2012年IEEE数据工程国际会议（ICDE 2012）的美国学生提供旅费支持，并使他们能够参加作为主要会议一部分举行的职业指导论坛。会议将于2012年4月1日至5日在美国华盛顿举行（http://www.icde12.org）。本次会议为在设计、构建、管理和评估高级数据密集型系统和应用程序方面解决问题的研究人员提供了一个场所。它是研究人员、实践者、开发人员和用户探索前沿思想和交流技术、工具和经验的主要论坛。它为学生提供了一个理想的环境，通过听取杰出的受邀演讲者和参加教程来了解该领域最先进的研究。将与主要会议同时举行七个重点讲习班和六个专题教程。在过去的十年里，数据的可用性呈爆炸式增长。数据丰富的科学和应用领域的数量有所增加，如社会网络分析、生物信息学、计算生物学、链接分析、反恐和安全。参加ICDE 2012将使学生接触到各种领域的前沿研究和相关应用。参加主要的研究会议是数据工程博士生培训的一个组成部分。会议旨在为博士候选人提供一个展示他们工作的机会，并从数据工程领域的知名研究人员那里获得建设性的反馈和指导。这样的反馈和指导有望提高学生的论文研究质量。同样，获得旅行奖的学生将能够参加技术会议、全体会议、小组讨论、教程和讲习班。参与者将与来自其他大学的有着相似兴趣的同行以及来自世界各地的数百名领先研究人员进行互动。这种经历将对他们未来的研究工作产生有益的影响。学生论坛和旅行奖也将有助于扩大数据工程研究社区中女性和代表性不足的少数群体成员的代表性。有关学生活动的详情，请浏览http://www.icde12.org/nsf-fellowships/。

This award provides travel support to U.S.-based students to attend the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2012), and to enable them to participate in a career mentoring forum to be held as part of the main conference. The conference will be held in Washington (DC), USA from April 1-5, 2012 (http://www.icde12.org). This conference provides a venue for researchers who are addressing problems in designing, building, managing, and evaluating advanced data intensive systems and applications. It is a leading forum for researchers, practitioners, developers, and users to explore cutting-edge ideas and to exchange techniques, tools, and experiences. It provides an ideal setting for students to learn about the state-of-the-art research in the field by hearing outstanding invited speakers and attending tutorials. There are seven focused workshops and six topic-specific tutorials that will be held in conjunction with the main conference.In the past decade, data has exploded in its availability. There has been a rise in the number of data-rich sciences and application domains, such as social network analysis, bioinformatics, computational biology, link analysis, counterterrorism and security. The attendance of ICDE 2012 will expose students to cutting-edge research and to relevant applications in a variety of domains. Participation in the premier research conferences ICDE is an integral component of the training of Ph.D. students in data engineering. The conference is aimed at providing an opportunity for Ph.D. candidates to present their work and receive constructive feedback and mentoring from established researchers in data engineering. Such feedback and mentoring is expected to improve the quality of the students thesis research. Similarly, students recipient of a travel award will be able to attend technical sessions, plenary talks, panels, tutorials and workshops. Participants will interact with peers who share similar interests from other universities, as well as hundreds of leading researchers from around the world. This experience will be fruitful towards the shaping of their future research endeavors. Both the student forum and travel awards will also help broaden the representation of women and members of underrepresented minority groups within the Data Engineering research community. Details of the student activities will be posted at http://www.icde12.org/nsf-fellowships/.