Student Travel Grant | IEEE Worldwide Convention on Laptop Communications (INFOCOM) 2026

Overview: 

INFOCOM 2026 is happy to supply the next 2 kinds of pupil journey grants (college students solely) and one sort of fellowship (college students, post-docs, or 1st/2nd 12 months younger researchers) to cowl the journey bills for attending the convention. For questions associated to the three kinds of pupil journey grants, please contact the coed convention grant chairs at  [email protected] , [email protected]. 

Type of Student Grants:

IEEE INFOCOM 2026 is happy to announce the provision of the next kinds of pupil journey grants:

A. Student Travel Grants sponsored by IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc).

B. Travel grants for US-based college students sponsored by U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). 

C. ComSoc Travel Grants sponsored by IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc).

Eligibility Criteria:

Following the applying pointers under, a pupil could apply to a number of of the three classes for which they’re eligible. The eligibility standards for every class are:

A. These pupil journey grants are sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society. Applications are invited from certified full-time graduate college students. To qualify, a pupil should (i) be a legitimate Student Member of the ComSoc on the time of software; (ii) be a full-time pupil registered towards a Bachelors, Masters, or Ph.D. diploma in engineering or associated area in a university or college when submitting the applying; (iii) be an writer who will current an accepted paper at INFOCOM 2026; (iv) applicant could not obtain multiple IEEE ComSoc Student Travel Grant (STG) in any 12-month interval.

B. These pupil journey grants are sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation. To qualify, a pupil should be a full-time pupil at US establishments. Student recipients might be reimbursed (primarily based on legitimate receipt) after the convention (detailed directions might be offered for college students supported by one of these STG).

C. All members of ComSoc together with non-students corresponding to school and business workers, particularly those that have monetary shortcomings and can’t get hold of funding to assist their travels.

Preference might be given to college students who’ve registered to attend the primary convention by the registration deadline. All recipients of the coed journey grants are required to register to attend the primary convention by the awardee acceptance deadline, at a Full Registration price or a Student Registration price. The last award is contingent upon the recipient exhibiting proof of registration (detailed directions might be offered for reimbursement).

Application Procedure:

An software for a pupil journey grant will encompass the next paperwork, and incomplete purposes won’t be thought of.

1. A request letter from the coed (see under).
2. The pupil’s Curriculum Vitae.
3. A advice letter from the coed’s graduate advisor.
4. An estimate of the next prices of attending INFOCOM: airfare, resort, and convention registration. It is anticipated that journey grants will partially cowl these prices.

The letter from the coed needs to be at most one web page, and embrace the next info:

1. The sort(s) of pupil journey grant (A, B, C) that the coed is making use of for.
2. Whether the coed is a first-time attendee; whether or not the coed has an authored paper accepted at INFOCOM 2026 and the paper title (if out there)
3. A short abstract of analysis pursuits and accomplishments up to now; college students ought to reveal a severe curiosity in networking by, e.g., their course work and initiatives.
4. An outline of areas mirrored within the INFOCOM 2026 program that might profit the coed’s analysis.
5. An announcement about why the convention attendance is essential to the coed.
6. An announcement of whether or not (and when) the coed has obtained US NSF or IEEE ComSoc journey grants earlier than.

The advisor’s advice letter for the coed ought to embrace:

1. Confirmation that the coed is a bona fide full-time PhD or MS/MSc candidate in good educational standing on the given establishment.
2. The suitability of the INFOCOM 2026 program materials to the coed’s analysis space.
3. Ways this specific pupil would profit from attending the convention.
4. The strengths and potential contributions of the coed to the INFOCOM group.
5. The advisor’s dedication to protecting the coed’s journey value in extra of the journey grant.

Applicants ought to create their software as a single PDF file, following the format described above. After login to EDAS (hyperlink to ) click on on the “Travel Grants” tab and choose essentially the most related STG sort to submit your software.

Deadlines:

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FAQs

1. Should I merge my advisor’s advice letter with my software collectively to undergo EDAS for various kinds of grants?

No. You might want to present the e-mail handle of your advisor whenever you submit the applying. Your advisor will then obtain a separate electronic mail from EDAS to instruct him/her to submit the advice letter on to EDAS.

2. Am I eligible to use for the coed convention grant being an writer of a demo/poster/workshop paper?

You are welcome to use, however please take into account that your software might be given decrease precedence with respect to INFOCOM major convention papers, so the likelihood of receiving an award is sort of low.

If your query will not be addressed within the FAQ part, please contact the coed convention grant chairs at  [email protected] and [email protected].