Mentoring the Next Generation of Parallel Processing Researchers at IEEE-CSTCPP Sponsored Conferences

学生指导计划在为年轻与会者提供必要的工具以利用他们参与会议方面发挥着重要作用。通过参加会议，学生可以从专业联系中受益，建立合作关系，向潜在雇主推销自己，接触到更广泛的导师网络，并为新的研究途径找到灵感。学生项目已经出现在几个主要会议上，但还远未被广泛采用。特别是国际并行和分布式处理研讨会（IPDPS）已经举办了十多年的博士论坛和学生计划。这个项目已经发展成为一个全面的培训工作坊，包括职业规划课程和写作和演讲技巧的实践教程；它也为学生提供了有效的交流机会。该项目旨在将IPDPS指导和外展模式扩展到由IEEE-CS并行处理技术委员会赞助的并行和分布式处理广泛领域下的其他会议。在传统计算方法缺乏处理大数据量或昂贵计算的机制的各种学科中，并行和分布式处理变得越来越重要。正如NSF的使命所述，该项目支持教育和多样性，同时通过指导高性能计算学科的下一代劳动力来促进科学的进步。该项目有两个具体目标：1)支持学生参与IEEE国际并行和分布式处理研讨会。IPDPS是一个国际会议，来自世界各地的工程师和科学家展示他们在并行计算各个方面的最新研究成果。2)推动在其他IEEE TCPP会议（如DS-RT、HiPC、PACT和PerCom）中采用学生指导计划。需要受益人会议促进介绍性会议，使学生与同龄人和导师建立联系。此外，会议组织者将获得IPDPS博士论坛的后勤计划，并鼓励举办类似的活动；包括海报会议和指导研讨会。只有目前在美国大学学习的学生才有资格获得nsf资助项目的支持。这个项目特别针对那些没有经济支持通常不能参加这些会议的学生，如本科生、第一年的研究生和第一次参加会议的学生。为了增加与会者的多样性，该项目强烈鼓励女性和其他代表性不足的群体参与。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。

Student mentoring programs play an important role in providing younger attendees with the necessary tools to take advantage of their participation at conferences. From their attendance to conferences, students can benefit from professional connections and establish collaborations, market themselves to potential employers, get exposed to a wider network of mentors, and find inspiration for novel research avenues. Student programs have emerged in several leading conferences, but are still far from being widely adopted. In particular the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) has been hosting a Ph.D. forum and student program for over a decade. This program has evolved into a comprehensive training workshop that includes sessions on career planning and hands on tutorials on writing and presentation skills; it also provides effective opportunities for student networking. This project seeks to expand the IPDPS mentoring and outreach model into other conferences that fall under the broad field of parallel and distributed processing and are sponsored by IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Parallel Processing. Parallel and distributed processing has become increasingly important for a variety of disciplines where traditional computational methods lack the mechanisms to deal with large data volumes or expensive computations. As stated by NSF's mission, this project supports education and diversity, while promoting the progress of science by mentoring the next-generation workforce in the high performance computing discipline.This project has two concrete goals: 1) supporting student participation at the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium. IPDPS is an international conference for engineers and scientists from around the world to present their latest research findings in all aspects of parallel computation. 2) promoting the adoption of student mentoring programs in other IEEE TCPP conferences, such as DS-RT, HiPC, PACT, and PerCom. The beneficiary conferences are required to facilitate an introductory session where students network with peers and mentors. Additionally, conference organizers are provided with the logistic plan of IPDPS's PhD Forum and are encouraged to have similar proven activities; including a poster session and mentoring workshops. Only students currently studying at U.S. universities are eligible to receive support from this NSF-funded project. This project targets especially students that typically cannot attended these conferences without financial support, such as undergraduate students, graduate students in their first years, and students attending their first conference. In order to increase the diversity of attendees, the project strongly encourages the participation of females and other underrepresented groups.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.