Doctoral Mentoring Consortium at International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2018

这笔助学金支持被选中的学生参加2018年7月13日至19日在瑞典斯德哥尔摩举行的人工智能国际联合会议(IJCAI)的博士导师联盟(DMC)的学生旅费。这是人工智能研究人员在完全国际化的研究界举行的首屈一指的国际会议。这项活动将汇聚人工智能领域广泛的研究人员社区，并在这一关键的职业早期阶段支持初级研究人员。DMC创造了机会，让那些可能因为缺乏资源而没有参加人工智能会议的人参加进来。对于那些在较小机构工作的人和那些人工智能程序开发程度较低的人来说，情况尤其如此。让这些参与者参与进来，有可能将更多的人才吸引到人工智能研究中，在他们的形成阶段改进研究想法，并产生跨学科的合作。这一活动为学生提供了宝贵的机会，让他们在研究的关键时刻接触到外界对他们工作的看法，并使他们能够探索自己的职业目标。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This grant supports student travel for select students to participate in the Doctoral Mentoring Consortium (DMC) at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) that will be held in Stockholm, Sweden, July 13-19, 2018. This is the premier international conference for researchers in artificial intelligence research across a fully international research community. This activity will bring together a broad community of researchers in the field of AI, and support junior researchers at this critical early-career stage. The DMC creates the opportunity to bring in participants who might not have attended an AI conference due to lack of resources. This is especially true for those at smaller institutions and those which have less developed AI programs. Engaging such participants has the potential to draw more talent into AI research, improve research ideas in their formative stage, and engender collaborations across the breadth of disciplines. This event provides students with invaluable exposure to outside perspectives on their work at a critical time in their research and enables them to explore their career objectives.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.