NSF Student Travel Grant for 2022 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC 2022)

2022年IEEE射频集成电路研讨会（RFIC'22）是一个年度国际研讨会，是一个主要论坛，专注于展示射频（RF），毫米波和无线集成电路（ic）领域的最新研究成果。RFIC'22将于6月19日至21日在科罗拉多会议中心举行。该研讨会是2022年微波周的一部分，这是世界上最大的射频和微波技术会议。参加RFIC'22将使美国学生接触到美国国家利益的关键研究领域（例如5G/6G无线），增强学生的研究经验，并为新的合作提供更多的机会，以推进知识。然而，参加RFIC'22的费用每年都在增加（交通费、住宿费和注册费都在增加），并不是每个研究人员都有足够的资金让他们的学生参加RFIC'22。此外，本科生很少有机会获得资助，因为他们通常不会在早期的职业生涯中从事研究。然而，年轻学生的出席很重要，因为他们代表了RFIC'22的未来。通过参加最新研究报告、建立新关系和参加各种会议活动，学生们也受益匪浅。因此，NSF RFIC'22旅行补助金可以显著提高学生出勤率。鼓励学生参与RFIC'22研讨会、专门的学生论坛、小组讨论、演示、教程、展览和参加论文报告是特别有用的。到RFIC'22，拟议的活动可能会显著提高美国女性学生、残疾人和代表性不足的少数族裔在STEM（科学、技术、工程和数学）领域的参与度。这将有助于提高美国学生对STEM教育的熟练程度。它还可以帮助美国发展多样化的、具有全球竞争力的STEM劳动力，并增加学术界、工业界和政府之间的伙伴关系，以提高美国的经济竞争力。RFIC'22提供了许多特别有利于学生研究人员的活动，包括技术讲座，重点学生论坛（RFIC研讨会历史上的第一次），互动演示会议，研讨会，教程，技术讲座，展览，三分钟论文（3MT）竞赛计划，以及其他有针对性的学生活动。IEEE RFIC研讨会是世界上学习射频集成电路设计、技术和研究的重要活动之一，学生们可以获得关于他们工作的反馈，与来自政府、行业和学术界的高级研究人员交谈，并接触到最新的研究。这些活动为学生提供了最新的信息，并与来自政府、行业和学术界的世界专家直接互动，并提供了典型大学课程无法提供的独特培训。在COVID-19大流行之前的三年里，RFIC研讨会已经举办了为期三天的活动，有900多名注册与会者，其中每年约有300名学生，并且还在不断增长。我们将用这笔NSF旅行基金全额资助12名美国学生的参加（即支付总费用）。国家科学基金会学生旅行资助计划将在RFIC'22网站上公布，并通过特别的电子邮件发布，重点关注学生的活动；它也会被发布在社交媒体上（例如，Facebook， LinkedIn等）。我们还将联系美国大学的教师，请他们宣传这项资助，并鼓励他们过去和现在的学生申请。这项资助将适用于美国任何一所大学的全日制学生。RFIC'22的组织者希望通过针对女性、本科生和代表性不足的群体来增加学生参与者。其目的是支持那些可能因经济困难而无法参加RFIC'22的年轻研究人员，并鼓励该领域的多样性。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。

The 2022 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC'22) is an annual international symposium that serves as a premier forum focused exclusively on presenting the latest state-of-the-art research results in radio-frequency (RF), millimeter-wave, and wireless integrated circuits (ICs). The RFIC'22 will be held at the Colorado Convention Center, June 19-21. The Symposium is part of Microwave Week 2022, the world's largest RF and microwave technical convention. Participation at RFIC'22 will expose US-based students to this critical research field of US national interests (e.g., 5G/6G wireless), enhance the research experiences for students, and provide increased opportunities for new collaborations to advance knowledge. However, attending RFIC'22 is getting more expensive each year (transportation, lodging, and registration fees all more costly), and not every researcher has the funds to allow their students to travel to RFIC'22. Moreover, undergraduate students are rarely getting the opportunity for funding as they are typically not engaging in research in their early career. Yet, young students' attendance is important because they represent the future of RFIC'22. Students also benefit tremendously by attending presentations on the latest research, making new connections, and participating in the various conference events. Thus, the NSF RFIC'22 travel grant can help increase student attendance in a significant manner. It is particularly useful to encourage student participation in RFIC'22 workshops, dedicated students forums, panels, demos, tutorials, exhibition, and attending papers presentations. The proposed activity may noticeably improve the participation of US-based students who are female, persons with disabilities, and underrepresented minorities in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields to RFIC'22. It will help enhance the STEM education proficiencies for US-based students. It can also help the development of a diverse, globally competitive STEM workforce in the US, and increase partnerships between academia, industry, and government to increase economic competitiveness of the United States.RFIC'22 offers a number of events specifically beneficial to student researchers, which include technical talks, focused student forums (1st time in the RFIC Symposium history), interactive demo session, workshops, tutorials, technical lecture, exhibition, the three-minute thesis (3MT) competition program, and other targeted student activities. As IEEE RFIC Symposium is one of the world's premier events to learn about RF IC design, technology and research, students are able to obtain feedbacks on their work, talk with senior researchers from government, industry, and academia, and get exposed to the latest research. These activities provide the students the latest updates and direct interactions with world experts from government, industry, and academia, and provide unique training that is not possible from a typical university program. Over the last three years before the COVID-19 pandemic, RFIC Symposium has been a three-day event with over 900 registered attendees, including about 300 students annually and keep growing. We will use this NSF travel fund to fully fund the participation of 12 US-based students (i.e., covering the total cost). The NSF student travel grant program will be publicized on the RFIC'22 website and through special email blasts that will focus on students' activities; it will also be posted on social media (e.g., Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.). We will also reach out to faculty in US universities and ask them to publicize the grant and encourage their past and current class students to apply for it. The funding will be for full-time students from any U.S. university. RFIC'22 organizers seek to increase student participants by targeting women, undergraduates, and under-represented groups. The aim is to support young researchers who might not otherwise be able to attend RFIC'22 due to financial difficulty, as well as to encourage the diversity of the field.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.