Supporting Student Participation and Distinguished Speakers in the Biomedical Engineering Research Community for IEEE International Conference on Digital Health 2021

这项建议为学生、导师、演讲者和博士后参与者提供支持，使他们能够结合IEEE国际数字健康会议(ICDH)开展职业发展活动。国际卫生与环境卫生中心及其相关活动将于2021年9月5日至10日期间虚拟举行。这笔资金将用于资助约40名学生的注册费、研究竞赛奖金，以及为教师导师、杰出演讲者和博士后学者提供的小额津贴，目的是提供高质量的辅导体验，并扩大对会议的参与，以包括更多在STEM领域历史上代表性不足的群体的成员。这样做将服务于围绕扩大参与的社会目标，丰富会议的知识多样性，改善向更广泛的人群传播围绕数字健康的最新成果，并进一步培训对数字健康感兴趣的下一代研究人员。指导将围绕两个主要活动进行。第一个是基于研究项目的竞争，目标是糖尿病、血压管理、癌症管理和老年人独立生活领域的生物医学工程和医疗保健项目。研究生(和博士后，视具体情况而定)将申请在比赛中以个人或小团队的身份进行他们选择的项目，比赛的广告广泛，包括面向少数族裔服务的机构。被接受的项目提案将由评审团选出；这些提名者将参加为期一天的研究研讨会和陈述比赛，在那里他们将接受评审团的反馈和指导。参与的学生还将有为期半天的虚拟辅导课程，由具有竞赛重点领域专业知识的杰出教师讲师指导，在课程中，学生和导师将合作探索上述领域的研究挑战。这笔资金还将支持专家的参与，这些专家将扩大ICDH在两个会议范围内关于人工智能支持的癌症和心脏病学治疗主题的小组讨论。这一奖项反映了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 proposal provides support for students, mentors, speakers, and postdoctoral attendees for professional development activities in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Digital Health (ICDH). ICDH and its associated activities will take place virtually, between September 5 and 10, 2021. The funds will be used to fund about 40 students’ registration fees, research competition prizes, and small stipends for faculty mentors, distinguished speakers, and postdoctoral scholars, with the goal of providing high-quality mentoring experiences and broadening participation in the conference to include more members of groups historically underrepresented in STEM fields. Doing this will serve both societal goals around broadening participation, enrich the intellectual diversity of the conference, improve dissemination of the latest results around digital health to a wider population, and further the training of the next generation of researchers interested in digital health. The mentoring will be structured around two main activities. The first is a research project-based competition targeting biomedical engineering and healthcare projects in the domains of diabetes, blood pressure management, cancer management, and independent living for older adults. Graduate students (and postdocs, on a case-by-case basis) will apply to conduct projects of their choice in the competition as either individuals or small teams, with the competition advertised widely including to minority-serving institutions. Accepted project proposals will be chosen by a panel of judges; these proposers will participate in a one day research workshop and presentation competition where they will receive feedback and mentoring from the panel of judges. Participating students will also have half-day virtual mentoring sessions guided by distinguished faculty speakers with expertise in the focal areas of the competition, in which students and mentors will collaboratively explore research challenges in the areas above. The funding will also support participation from experts that will broaden the ICDH in two conference-wide panels on the topics of AI-supported cancer and cardiology treatment.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.