WASPAA 2023 Call for Financial Support
We are intensifying our efforts for promoting diversity and inclusivity at WASPAA and allocating an unprecedented amount of funding (4-5x) towards grants for our student and young professional community members at WASPAA 2023. Our funding is in partnership with the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS), SPS Student and Young Professionals (SYP) Fund, and our sponsors.
If you have not submitted to WASPAA in the past due to financial constraints, please see below.
Important Dates
- April 28, 2023: Full paper submission deadline (abstract due a week before).
- July 12, 2023: Paper acceptance notification.
- July 12, 2023: Financial support grant application open.
- July 21, 2023: Demo submission deadline.
- July 26, 2023: Camera-ready papers deadline.
- July 31, 2023: Demo acceptance notification.
- July 31, 2023: Financial support grant submission deadline
August 12, 2023August 14, 2023: Notification of financial support grants- August 22, 2023: Early registration deadline for authors
- August 23, 2023: Registration open to the public
- October 22-25, 2023: Workshop.
All the deadlines above are the end of the calendar day (23:59), in AoE time zone (UTC-12:00).
Forms of Support
We are offering various forms of financial support, in the form of travel grants, registration waivers, diversity and inclusion grants and child care grants. To be eligible for any of these grants, applicants should be the first author of the paper, and be a student author or young professional (SYP), meaning that they are either enrolled in a degree-granting academic program in the 2021-2022 and/or 2022-2023 academic year(s); or they are young professionals that finished their first degree (undergraduate degree) at most 15 years ago.
Participants can apply to more than one grant and accumulate awards as long as they are eligible. See the eligibility criteria below.
Registration waivers
Any first author of an accepted paper or demo can apply to a registration waiver award (equivalent up to US$600) as long as they are a student author for a young professional according to the criteria explained above. Waivers will be granted based on the availability of funds and merit.
Travel grants
These grants are available for the first authors of an accepted paper or demo who are student authors or young professionals according to the criteria explained above. The grants consist of awards of US$500 when traveling within the same continent, and up to US$1000 when travel between continents is involved. These grants are towards covering the travel expenses upon presentation of receipts. The grants are awarded based on the quality of the submission, the degree of financial need, the applicant’s newness to the community, and the applicant’s geographical diversity.
Diversity & Inclusion Grants
Additional support is available to those authors that are students or young professionals identifying as women, Black, African, African-American or an ethnic/racial minority (of the author’s region); authors coming from low- or middle-income countries, authors identifying as LGBTQIA, and unaffiliated researchers. These grants consist of awards of US$500 up to US$1000 towards covering expenses related to the conference upon presentation of receipts. See further details on eligibility below.
Child Care Grants
There are a limited number of childcare grants (US$200-US$500) upon presentation of receipts for authors who are bringing small children to the workshop or who incur on extra expenses for in-home child care while attending the conference. Child care grants will be awarded prioritizing mother-authors, and those who express financial need. To be eligible for this grant applicants should be student authors or young professionals as specified in the criteria above.
Procedure
Grant applications will open on July 12, and close on July 31, of 2023. Please apply for grants using this Google form: https://forms.gle/vqMAoDBfF1AvXU586. We request grant applicants to wait until the grant application decision (Aug. 12, 2023) before registering for the conference.
You will be considered for all the grants that you applied and qualify for, based on the information you provide in the application. All grant applications shall be processed with utmost confidentiality by only a few organizing members including Diversity and Inclusion Chairs, Awards Chair, and General Co-Chairs. Any information provided on the application shall only be used for assessment of grant eligibility and not for any other purpose.
Questions?
Email: grants@waspaa.com