The 20th SIGART/AAAI Doctoral Consortium

AAAI博士联盟（DC）将成熟的研究人员和处于职业生涯中期的博士生聚集在一起，参加为期两天的研讨会，学生和教师在一系列环境中进行互动，提供正式和非正式的职业和研究指导。作为一种鼓励年轻和即将到来的人工智能研究人员的手段，AAAI博士联盟已被证明是一种相对便宜且非常有效的模式。现在的许多评论者、导师和小组成员都曾经是学生参与者。AAAI博士联盟的智力价值在于为初级研究人员提供独特的机会，使他们能够从社区内的高级研究人员那里获得与他们职业生涯相关的学术和社会问题的高质量反馈。作为DC项目的一部分，导师和学生在会议、小组讨论、工作午餐以及口头报告和讨论期间进行互动。对于许多学生来说，这是唯一的机会，从他们的论文委员会成员以外的研究人员获得集中的投入。学生们不仅获得了关于论文研究的演讲和对工作的具体反馈的经验，他们也有机会讨论更多的个人问题，如平衡工作和家庭。AAAI DC的广泛影响集中在汇集来自美国和世界各地不同类型的实验室、大学和不同地区、处于不同研究阶段的广泛学生，以及同样多样化的导师和小组成员。通过与人工智能社区的知名成员互动，学生们也能更好地了解整个人工智能社区。2015年AAAI DC计划直接接触AAAI社区内的更多学生？不仅对少数被接受展示他们的作品的人，而且对许多参加AAAI的早期研究生和本科生，通过邀请他们参加小组讨论。这样，通过鼓励其他学生与导师互动，DC的影响将超越直接支持参与者，并有望在未来几年应用于DC。

The AAAI Doctoral Consortium (DC) brings together established researchers and mid-career Ph.D. students for a two-day workshop where students and faculty interact in a range of settings to provide both formal and informal career and research mentoring. As a means of encouraging young and upcoming researchers in Artificial Intelligence, the AAAI Doctoral Consortium has been proven to be a relatively inexpensive and extremely effective model. Many of the current reviewers, mentors, and panelists were once student participants.The Intellectual Merit of the AAAI Doctoral Consortium lies in the unique opportunity for junior researchers to gain high quality feedback on academic and social issues relevant to their career, from senior researchers within their community. As part of the DC program, mentors and students interact in meetings, panels, working lunches, and during oral presentations and discussions. For many students, this is the only opportunity to receive focused input from researchers other than members of their dissertation committee. Students not only gain the experience of giving a talk on their thesis research and receiving specific feedback on their work, they also are given the opportunity to discuss more personal issues, such as balancing work and family. The Broader Impacts of the AAAI DC are centered on bringing together a wide range of students at different stages of research, from different types of labs and universities and different regions across the US and around the world, alongside an equally diverse group of mentors and panelists. By interacting with established members of the Artificial Intelligence community, students also gain a better perspective of the AI community as a whole. The 2015 AAAI DC plans to reach out directly to more students within the AAAI community?not only to the few who are accepted to present their work, but also to the many early graduate students and undergraduate students who attend AAAI, by inviting these students to attend the panels. In doing so, the impact of the DC will extend beyond the directly-support participants by encouraging other students to interact with mentors, and hopefully apply to the DC in future years.