Student Travel Grants
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Experience the latest at a SSCS conference. Network with researchers from around the world, from industry governments and universities. Find out the problems they want solved or have almost solved. The IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Student Travel Grant Award (STGA) progam, now in its second year, helps students experience the excitement of participating in an SSCS-sponsored conference in their field:
2012 ISSCC News Applicants for the Student Travel Grants must be SSCS members and enrolled for a year in a PhD program, although their dissertation topic need not be selected yet. Required recommendations are limited to one per professor. |
ISSCC application coming soon |
18 students already received partial reimbursement to travel to ISSCC 2011 last February and were enthusiastic about the experience.
For Tao Wang of University of Oregon, the plenary talks were “phenomenal” for their insightfulness about present-day problems and solutions. For Benjamin Stefan Devlin of University of Tokyo, the best part was imbibing “new ideas to try” at home, and being motivated to “push harder” in his own work. For Wei Deng of Tokyo Institute of Technology, the boost from networking with peers at the Conference was like a “100 percent amount of battery: ISSCC is a high-efficiency charger to young circuit designers like me,” he said. All expressed appreciation for the opportunity to discuss their work and get advice from IC “legends” at the Conference, and remarked on its quality and breadth. Some called the experience “life-changing.”
The CICC travel grants are only for International student travel, that is, students attending universities outside of the US and Canada are eligible. Applicants can expect to be notified by June 17. Registration, conference digest, lodging and food are not reimbursable under the CICC award. These criteria may vary for later SSCS conferences.
FIRST STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS TO ISSC
This new initiative funded by the SSCS AdCom in 2010, the Solid-State Circuits Society awarded conference travel grants to 18 student members who were selected to receive partial reimbursement to the ISSCC 2011, Feb 20 to 24 in San Francisco, as well as free conference registration and the conference DVD donated by the ISSCC. With these awards, the Society aims at recognizing early career accomplishments by graduate students in the field of solid-state circuits.
The 2011 ISSCC Student Travel Grant Award recipients are:
FROM ASIA
Jianping Guo Chinese University of Hong Kong
Mehran Mohammadi Izad National University of Singapore
Wei Deng Tokyo Institute of Technology
Seulki Lee KAIST
Eun-hee Kim KAIST
Vikramjeet Chaturvedi Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Benjamin Stefan Devlin Tokyo
Pen-Li You National Cheng Kung University
FROM EUROPE AND THE MIDDLE EAST
Peiman Aliparast Tabriz
Alberto Rodríguez-Pérez University of Seville (Spain)
Ning Xie Delft University of Technology
Nitz Saputra Delft University of Technology
FROM US AND CANADA
Tao Wang Oregon State University
Sidharth Balasubramanian Ohio State University
Hamhee Jeon Georgia Institute of Technology
Faisal T Abu-Nimeh Michigan State University
Sakkarapani Balagopal Boise state University
Kevin Cushon McGill University
Additional SSCS-sponsored conferences will soon be announcing plans to evaluate applicants for comparable student travel grants to their events.
We look forward to telling students who may wish to apply for these awards about the experiences of the 18 attending the ISSCC.