NSF Student Travel Grant for 2022 ACM Recommender Systems Conference

这是资助部分支持博士研究研讨会（讲习班）的约18个有前途的研究生沿着与一个小组的8名杰出的研究人员从学术界和工业界。 这个为期一天的活动将在西雅图与ACM 2022 ACM推荐系统会议（RecSys）一起举行。 RecSys是介绍推荐系统广泛领域新研究成果、系统和技术的首要国际论坛。推荐系统利用过去的用户行为和用户相似性来建议根据用户偏好量身定制的事物，并用于各种上下文，包括社交媒体，电子商务，健康和娱乐。 由于RecSys汇集了从事推荐系统研究的主要国际研究团体，沿着还有许多世界领先的公司，它已成为推荐系统研究的最重要的年度会议。 为该领域正在崛起的博士生提供旅行资金既可以丰富会议的新颖研究，也可以为学生提供有用的反馈。研讨会的目的是：1）为学生提供一个支持性的环境，以反馈他们目前的研究和指导未来的研究方向; 2）为每个学生提供反馈和来自他们自己机构以外的教师和学生对他们工作的新观点; 3）促进研究人员的支持社区和合作研究精神的发展;和4）通过与其他研究人员和会议活动的互动为会议目标做出贡献。 在研讨会期间，每位学生将进行15分钟的演讲，然后进行20-25分钟的反馈和讨论。 两名研讨会教员将被指派为每位演讲者提供初步反馈;在此初步反馈之后，将有一段时间与所有与会者进行公开讨论。反馈将是建设性的，着眼于塑造该领域和即将到来的参与者在研究领域，帮助学生理解和阐明他们的工作是如何定位相对于相关研究，适当地集中和范围他们的想法论文研究项目，并提高他们的方法和分析的选择和应用。 在主要会议期间，学生还将以海报演示的形式展示他们的论文工作和计划;该工作将在RecSys主要会议记录中发表。会议管理委员会将对博士研究专题讨论会进行评估，评估结果将提供给未来专题讨论会的组织者。该奖项反映了NSF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 is funding to partially support a Doctoral Research Symposium (workshop) of about 18 promising graduate students along with a panel of 8 distinguished researchers from academia and industry. This one day event will take place on Seattle in conjunction with the ACM 2022 ACM Recommender System Conference (RecSys). RecSys is the premier international forum for the presentation of new research results, systems, and techniques in the broad field of recommender systems. Recommendation systems leverage past user behaviors and user similarities to suggest things that are tailored tailored to a user’s preferences, and are used in a variety of contexts including social media, ecommerce, health, and entertainment. As RecSys brings together the main international research groups working on recommender systems, along with many of the world’s leading companies, it has become the most important annual conference for the presentation and discussion of recommender system research. Providing travel funding to rising PhD students in the field will both enrich the conference with novel research and provide useful feedback for the students themselves. The goals of the symposium are 1) provide a supportive setting for feedback on students’ current research and guidance on future research directions; 2) offer each student feedback and fresh perspectives on their work from faculty and students outside their own institution; 3) promote the development of a supportive community of researchers and a spirit of collaborative research; and 4) contribute to the conference goals through interaction with other researchers and conference events. During the symposium, each student will give a 15 minute presentation, followed by 20-25 minutes for feedback and discussion. Two of the symposium faculty will be assigned to provide primary feedback for each presenter; following this primary feedback there will be a period of open discussion with all participants. The feedback will be constructive with an eye towards shaping the field and upcoming participants in the research area, helping students understand and articulate how their work is positioned relative to related research, appropriately focus and scope their ideas for thesis research projects, and improve the choice and application of their methods and analyses. During the main conference, students will also present their dissertation work and plans in the form of a poster presentation; the work will be published in the RecSys main conference proceedings. The conference management committee will evaluate the doctoral research symposium, and the results will be made available to the organizers of future symposia.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.