Promoting Student Participation in IEEE Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics

该奖项为学生参加2018年IEEE生物医学与健康信息学国际会议（BHI18）并展示他们的工作提供旅费支持。BHI18是由IEEE医学和生物工程学会（EMBS）主办的移动健康和健康分析领域的首要旗舰会议。BHI18将于2018年3月4日至8日在拉斯维加斯举行，并与IEEE身体传感器网络会议联合举办。会议的目标是提供一个独特的平台来展示新颖的传感器、系统、信号处理、分析和数据管理服务。BHI18将提供研究人员在有效和创新的信号采集、传输、处理、监测、存储、检索、分析、可视化和解释多模态信号方面的最新发现，包括生理、生物医学、生物、社会、行为、环境和地理数据。它还将为生物信息学和计算生物学的研究人员提供一个论坛，特别是EMBS和IEEE信号处理学会的研究人员，他们之间以及生物医学和健康信息学社区的其他人之间进行互动和交流研究思想，并讨论包括精准医疗在内的前沿领域的未来挑战。随着综合生物信息学和医学信息学方法成为精准医学的重点领域之一，BHI18具有独特的定位，可以激发这些领域的研究人员之间的新想法和促进新的合作。研讨会的一项重要任务是促进研究生，特别是妇女和少数民族学生的参与，并促进学生对精确医学计算生物学的教育。该奖项将用于向论文质量高、符合条件的研究生提供差旅资助，以支持其参加会议。工作坊组织机构包括学生评奖委员会，负责评估和选择学生获奖者。特别是，20-30%的奖励分配给妇女和少数民族学生参加并向讲习班提交论文。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。

This award provides travel support for students to attend and present their work at the IEEE International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2018 (BHI18). BHI18 is the premier flagship conference sponsored by IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) in the area of mHealth and health analytics. BHI18 will be held from March. 4-8, 2018 in Las Vegas and jointly organized with IEEE conference on Body Sensor Networks. The goal of the conference is to provide a unique platform to showcase novel sensors, systems, signal processing, analytics and data management services. BHI18 will offer the latest findings of researchers on efficient and innovative signal acquisition, transmission, processing, monitoring, storage, retrieval, analysis, visualization and interpretation of multi-modal signals including physiological, biomedical, biological, social, behavioral, environmental, and geographical data. It will also provide a forum for bioinformatics and computational biology researchers in especially EMBS and IEEE Signal Processing Society to interact and exchange research ideas among them and others in Biomedical and Health Informatics community and discuss future challenges in cutting edge areas including Precision Medicine. As integrated bioinformatics and medical informatics approaches become one of the focus areas in Precision Medicine, BHI18 is uniquely positioned to spark novel ideas and promote new collaborations between researchers in these communities. An important mission of the Workshop is to promote participation of graduate students, especial woman and minority students, and foster student education on computational biology for precision medicine. This award will be used to provide travel grants to qualified graduate students, whose papers are deemed of high quality, to support their participation in the conference. The Workshop organization includes the student award committee, which will be responsible for evaluation and selection of student awardees. Particularly, 20-30% of the awards are allocated to women and minority students to participate and submit papers to the Workshop.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.