SIGAI supports student members through many of its activities, check the testimonials to know more about!
Are you a student? Consider these tools and opportunities:
ACM-W Student Scholarships
If you are a woman undergraduate or graduate student, you can apply for ACM-W Student Scholarships for Attendance at Research Conferences. See http://women.acm.org/scholarship for details and application form. There are up to 12 scholarships/year available of up to $500 each.
E-mentoring Opportunity – Just 20 Minutes Per Week
The MentorNet One-on-One Mentoring Programs are a chance to make a big difference in the life of a student in as little as 20 minutes a week.
ACM is now partnering with MentorNet, an organization that promotes e-mentoring relationships between students (proteges) and professionals (mentors). Mentors and students communicate entirely by email, wherever and whenever they choose. The programs have proven effective by providing “real world” information, encouragement, advice, and access to networks for students, and particularly for those underrepresented in engineering and science fields.
MentorNet seeks science and engineering professionals to mentor engineering and science community college, undergraduate, and graduate students, who are interested in pursuing a professional future in the fields of engineering and science.
Since 1998, MentorNet has matched more than 20,000 pairs of proteges and mentors. Over 90% of participants would recommend MentorNet’s e-mentoring programs to a friend or colleague. Here is what one ACM mentor says about the program: “I have been a mentor with MentorNet for almost five years now. I have had a variety of mentees from graduate students who are struggling to decide if the PhD is the right thing for them to faculty members wanting to determine if moving up into administrative positions is the right thing for their career. Each of these mentees has brought a fresh set of questions and backgrounds that are unique to them. Each has had different issues that need to be dealt with and challenges that they face. Each of these mentees has challenged me to think about my career path and what things were important for me along the way. I enjoy immensely the feeling that I am providing a sounding board for young professionals as they advance their careers. It is very rewarding to have these mentees come back and say that you have helped them to learn about themselves and their career interests. It is a relatively small time investment for a huge personal reward.”
Donna Reese, Associate Dean for Academics and Administration James Worth Bagley College of Engineering, Mississippi State University.
To learn more, go to: MentorNet.
AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium
AAAI and ACM/SIGAI co-organize annually the AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium. The Doctoral Consortium (DC) provides an opportunity for a group of Ph.D. students to discuss and explore their research interests and career objectives with a panel of established researchers in artificial intelligence. The consortium has the following objectives: (1) to provide a setting for feedback on participants’ current research and guidance on future research directions; (2) support the next generation of researchers with information and advice on academic, research, industrial, and non-traditional career paths; (3) encourage a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research; and (4) support students in contributing to the conference goals through interaction with other researchers and participation in conference events.
The Doctoral Consortium is held as a workshop before the AAAI Conference. Student participants in the Doctoral Consortium receive complimentary conference registration and a fixed allowance for travel/housing. See testimonials from students who have received support from SIGAI. Read more about past AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium.
For details, please see the 2019 AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium Website
Conference Attendance Support
SIGAI provides grants to conferences held in cooperation or sponsored by SIGAI to enable them to provide travel awards to students. If you are attending such a conference, check with the organisers to see what support they are offering.
Funding Testimonials
Conference experiences from students funded by SIGAI travel grants.
Triet Huynh Minh Le
I attended ASE 2021 to share and discuss the latest work in my PhD with the community as well
Ran Taig
My name is Ran Taig, I’m a 3rd year PhD. Student in the field of automated building from Ben
Taraneh Khazaei
AAAI DC provided me with an amazing opportunity to get community feedback on my research. During the DC, I
John Doucette
I had a great time at the AAAI DC. The expert panel provided a lot of insightful career advice,
Tim Brys
The AAAI Doctoral Consortium put me in touch with several other PhD students, with whom I enjoyed conversations both
Huaming Rao
This is my second time attending the IUI conference and my first time presenting my research at the student
Enamul Hoque Prince
Being the first time attendee, I found the IUI conference to be very exciting and relevant. Since the aim
Kathrin Pollmann
Attending the student consortium at IUI 2015 was a great and very insightful experience for me. I got to
Marcio Cunha
It was my first time at ACM IUI and I had a great experience. The conference venue was very
David Costa
The IUI conference was an enlightening experience. The Student Consortium was very useful and I learned from the mentors’
Philipp Eichmann
The travel grant partially supported my travel to the ACM Interactional Conference on Intelligent User Interface (IUI) 2015 where
Hee Tae Jung
The travel grant partially supported my travel to the ACM Interactional Conference on Intelligent User Interface (IUI) 2015 where
Sanorita Dey
This is for the first time I attended the IUI conference. I presented my research in the graduate student
Nigel Bosch
I had an excellent time at IUI 2015. The first day I went to a workshop (SmartObjects) where I
Yi Yang
I presented a paper on “User-directed Non-disruptive Topic Model Update for Effective Exploration of Dynamic Content”. Our paper won
Md. Iftekhar Tanveer
IUI is directed towards a unique goal of bringing the HCI and AI fields together. I find this idea
Katie Anna E. Wolf
I really enjoyed my first time attending the ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI). Before the conference, I
Jacob Rosen
Attending AAMAS in Istanbul not only allowed me to get useful critiques on my research, but I was able
Kenneth Bogert
I enjoyed my time at AAMAS this year, and found it to be very interesting and relevant to my
Fei Fang
I am at the end of my fourth year and attending AAMAS 2015 is a very valuable experience for
Ferdinando Fioretto
Attending AAMAS 2015 was a great experience for me. I had the chance of presenting, getting feedback on my
Alessandro Panella
Attending AAMAS in Istanbul was an invaluable experience, and the support received by SIGAI was instrumental in being able
Nadin Kokciyan
It was great to attend AAAI-DC to meet many students and researchers in AI field. Each student had a
Amar Viswanathan
This was my first Doctoral Consortium at AAAI. My presentation on ‘Pragmatics Aware Query Reformulation in Heterogeneous Knowledge Graphs’.
Cheng Zhang
This was my second time in IUI with one paper presentation, but the first time serving as a student
Nicholas Davis
My name is Nicholas Davis, and I am a HumanCentered Computing PhD candidate from Georgia Tech. The ACM Intelligent
Mingkun Gao
I am Mingkun Gao, a first year PhD student of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My paper was
Enamul Hoque
I found the IUI conference to be very exciting and relevant for my research. Since the aim of my
Khalil Muhammad
IUI 2016 is the most interesting conference I’ve attended since starting my PhD 3 years ago. I was amazed
Prajwal Paudyal
I had a great experience presenting my work at IUI 2016. I had the opportunity to meet very smart
Pavel Samsonov
Attending IUI 2016 after CHI in the last year was quite unusual, given the conference’s size, but in a
Shun Su
This is not only my first time attending IUI, but also my first time serving as a student volunteer
Natalia Vainstein
I had a great experience at IUI2016 conference. The participation in Student Volunteers Program gave me the possibility to
Narumol Vannaprathip
Attending to IUI2016 conference at Sonoma is my unforgettable experience. As a recipient of student travel grant, I had
Yuchen Zhao
The IUI ’16 is the most exciting conference I have attended. As a student volunteer, I have cooperated with
Ernesto Nunes
This was my third time attending AAMAS. I truly enjoyed my experience, because for the first time I really
Ernesto Nunes
This was my third time attending AAMAS. I truly enjoyed my experience, because for the first time I really
Rens Hoegen
AAMAS 2017 was the first AAMAS conference I attended. I presented our paper at the main conference and attended
Felipe Leno da Silva
Through SIGAI Grants I had the opportunity of attending AAMAS for the first time in San Paulo, my hometown.
Gabriel de Oliveira Ramos
Attending AAMAS 2017, in San Paulo, was an amazing experience for me, and the SIGAI/IFAAMAS travel grant was fundamental
Reduced registration:
- Reduced registration at the conferences sponsored by SIGAI.
- For conferences held in cooperation with SIGAI, the registration fees are the same for SIGAI members as for other sponsoring organizations.
Access to the following contents in the ACM Digital Library:
- Proceedings of all the SIGAI sponsored conferences.
- Proceedings of some conferences and workshops held in cooperation with SIGAI.
Community Benefits Provided by SIGAI:
- Sponsorship of conferences.
- Autonomous Agents research award.
- Travel support for students to SIGAI sponsored conferences.
- Support for AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium.