Support for SIGCOMM 2016 travel grants will be available to students, post-docs, and young faculty early in their career, no matter which university you are working at. We would like to encourage all of you to apply.
Selection Criteria
The following criteria will be used in the selection process:
Preference will be given to applicants that do not present a paper in the conference. The rationale for this criterion is that the participation costs for a presenting author should be covered by their home institution. Note that this preference applies to non-presenter authors, provided that they articulate a compelling case for why their home institution cannot cover the costs of their attendance in their application.
Students presenting posters are encouraged to apply though. The rationale is to support the participation of students who do not present papers but contribute to the conference in other ways.
Evidence of a serious interest in networking, as demonstrated by coursework and/or project experience, will be required. Advanced students close to graduation or in the job market will also be given priority, when possible.
We also encourage participation of women and under-represented minorities. Special attention will be given to applicants from minority-serving institutions.
After giving priority to the above criteria, (co-)authors of papers may be considered but will be given lower priority. The rationale is to support people that contribute to the conference and cannot attend otherwise due to budget or other constraints. (An example is a student who is a second author but does not present and would not be able to attend the conference otherwise. Another example is a postdoc who presents work with a past affiliation or without affiliation and thus is not supported either by his/her past or current institution. In both cases, the applicant and the letter-writer should explain in their letters why it is impossible to support the applicant from other sources.)
To increase the geographic diversity of the SIGCOMM attendee population, researchers early in their career (at most five years of full-time, full-level [non-postdoc] post-PhD employment) may be funded via SIGCOMM's GeoDiversity Grants. Because the intent of the grants is to increase participation from countries historically under-represented at the SIGCOMM conference (e.g. Latin America, Africa, and parts of Asia), applicants should be from such countries.