Conference: Funding Proposal for 2022 AAAI Doctoral Consortium

这笔资金将用于支持将于2022年2月22日至3月1日举行的人工智能促进协会（AAAI）虚拟会议上的博士指导联盟（DMC）。这是人工智能（AI）研究人员在一个完整的国际研究社区的首要国际会议。这项活动将汇集人工智能领域广泛的研究人员社区，并在这个关键的早期职业阶段支持初级研究人员。DMC为那些由于缺乏资源而没有参加人工智能会议的参与者创造了机会。对于那些规模较小的机构和那些人工智能项目不太发达的机构来说尤其如此。吸引这样的参与者有可能吸引更多的人才进入人工智能研究，在他们的形成阶段改进研究思路，并在学科的广度上产生合作。这个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 grant supports the Doctoral Mentoring Consortium (DMC) at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) that will be held in virtually, Feb 22 - Mar 1, 2022. This is the premier international conference for researchers in artificial intelligence (AI) 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.