ICDE 2024 provides travel awards to selected US-based PhD students to attend the conference. The awards are sponsored by a grant from the US National Science Foundation. The award value is USD1,000 as a financial stipend to partially cover the expense of attending the conference in person. The amount could be adjusted based availability of funds. Awardees will make their own arrangements for travel and accommodation. The award should be used to pay costs related to attending the conference.

The applicant must be a full-time PhD student in a US-based institution. Applicants do not need to have an accepted paper to be eligible. However, students who are primary authors of an accepted paper in the main conference or the workshops are especially encouraged to apply.

Awardees are expected to volunteer at the conference activities (e.g., registration desk, session assistance, AV tables, workshops, etc.) for a number of hours during the conference week. You get to pick your time slots upon availability. So, we will collaborate to enable everyone not to miss anything they want to attend.

To apply for the award, the student must submit the application form below no later than March 15 March 22, 2024 (11:59 PM Pacific Time). https://tinyurl.com/ICDE2024TravelAwards

Students are encouraged to apply as soon as possible. The awardees will be notified via email. The travel award is possible due to generous sponsorships by NSF.

You may send your questions regarding the travel award application process to Ashraf Aboulnaga (ashraf.aboulnaga@uta.edu).

• Ashraf Aboulnaga, University of Texas at Arlington (co-chair)
• Abolfazl Asudeh, University of Illinois Chicago
• Gautam Das, University of Texas at Arlington (co-chair)
• Amr Magdy, University of California, Riverside