Travel: CIF: Student Travel Support for the 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory

旅行：CIF：2023 年 IEEE 国际信息论研讨会的学生旅行支持

• 批准号: 2310925
• 负责人: Chih-Chun Wang
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-01-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2310925&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Travel; CIF; Student; Support; 2023

The IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) is the premier international conference on information theory, the scientific discipline that studies the mathematical foundations of efficient, reliable, and secure communications, with applications in telephony, television, wireless, optical, and data storage systems. The performance benchmark provided by information theory has successfully guided engineers in the design of ever more efficient coding systems that leverage the technological advances to closely approach fundamental limits. The Symposium focuses on the presentation of previously unpublished contributions in all areas of information theory, including big data analytics, communication theory and systems, cryptography and security, and various emerging applications. The pandemic in years 2020 to 2022 resulted in significant disruption to international conference travel. ISIT-2023 is expected to be the first edition after the pandemic that will be fully back to normal with the travel restrictions from around the globe being lifted. Attendance by student researchers to the Symposium is especially crucial to the continued vitality of the field of Information Theory, which, if history is to serve as an indicator, is the basis for US competitiveness in the fields of data transmission, storage, compression and security. In addition, an outstanding benefit of the Symposium is the close personal interaction between senior and junior workers in information theory, which encourages the free exchange of ideas and critical comments. The opportunities for cross-fertilization are immense and it is vital that those who are new to the field and bring fresh ideas be present to discuss their work with those who are more experienced. The travel support from NSF will significantly ease the burden of the attending students, given the expected higher-than-normal cost of international travel in the summer of 2023.In the past few years (pre-pandemic), the attendance at IEEE ISIT has varied between 750 and 925, typically including over 300 students. Among them, 40% are students enrolled in graduate or undergraduate programs in the United States, who will benefit directly from this travel support grant. In the last few years, ISIT has had significant participation from women engineers, with about 40% female student participation. The student travel grant will be administered to ensure that no less than 45% of the awards are women recipients, which will continue promoting a healthy and diverse study participation that is key to the vitality of the community. While the travel support will be given mostly to student authors who will present technical papers during the conference, a portion of the US NSF Student Travel Grant will be reserved for US graduate/undergraduate students who will attend the conference for the first time and may not have a paper/ presentation/poster/demo at the conference. Preference will be given to students from under-represented groups (e.g., women, minorities and people with disabilities). The introduction of this new category will ensure a broader, more diverse student participation and also promote student interest in the broad STEM areas in general.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.

IEEE 国际信息论研讨会 (ISIT) 是信息论领域的顶级国际会议，信息论是一门研究高效、可靠和安全通信的数学基础的科学学科，其应用领域包括电话、电视、无线、光学和数据存储系统。信息论提供的性能基准已成功指导工程师设计更高效的编码系统，利用技术进步来接近基本极限。研讨会重点介绍信息论所有领域以前未发表的贡献，包括大数据分析、通信理论和系统、密码学和安全以及各种新兴应用。 2020年至2022年的大流行对国际会议旅行造成了严重干扰。 ISIT-2023 预计将是大流行后的第一个版本，随着全球旅行限制的取消，该版本将完全恢复正常。学生研究人员参加研讨会对于信息论领域的持续活力尤其重要，如果以历史为指标，信息论是美国在数据传输、存储、压缩和安全领域竞争力的基础。此外，研讨会的一个突出好处是信息论领域的高级和初级工作者之间密切的个人互动，鼓励自由交流思想和批评意见。交叉融合的机会是巨大的，至关重要的是，那些刚进入该领域并带来新想法的人能够在场与更有经验的人讨论他们的工作。鉴于 2023 年夏季国际旅行费用预计高于正常水平，NSF 的旅行支持将大大减轻参加学生的负担。在过去几年（大流行前），IEEE ISIT 的出席人数有所增加人数从 750 人到 925 人不等，通常包括超过 300 名学生。其中，40%是在美国就读研究生或本科课程的学生，他们将直接受益于这笔旅行补助金。在过去几年中，ISIT 中有大量女工程师参与，其中约 40% 是女学生。学生旅费补助金的管理将确保不少于 45% 的奖学金获得者是女性，这将继续促进健康和多样化的学习参与，这是社区活力的关键。虽然旅行支持主要提供给在会议期间发表技术论文的学生作者，但美国 NSF 学生旅行补助金的一部分将保留给首次参加会议且可能不会参加会议的美国研究生/本科生。在会议上发表论文/演示/海报/演示。将优先考虑来自代表性不足群体（例如妇女、少数民族和残疾人）的学生。这一新类别的引入将确保更广泛、更多样化的学生参与，并总体上促进学生对广泛的 STEM 领域的兴趣。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的评估进行评估，被认为值得支持。影响审查标准。