SIGMOD 2025 Student Travel Grants
Thanks to the generous support from SIGMOD and other sponsors, we will provide scholarship awards to selected students attending the SIGMOD/PODS conference. The scholarships will include financial support for traveling and conference registrations.
Each awardee will receive a stipend to partially cover the expense to attend the conference. The amount will be determined based on the availability of funds and the number of granted stipends. Awardees are expected to register to the main conference and will have to make their own arrangements for travel and accommodation.
Eligibility
Applicants need to be a full-time student (undergraduate or graduate). Applicants also need to be a SIGMOD member at the time of receiving this award (to become a member of SIGMOD, you don't need to be a member of the ACM – students can join SIGMOD for only $10 at https://sigmod.org/membership/).
Applicants are eligible to apply for the SIGMOD travel award even if they have submissions under consideration at other award granting events at SIGMOD, such as the Undergraduate Research Program, the Programming Contest, or the New Researcher Symposium. However, an applicant cannot receive more than one travel award in total.
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. Junior students without papers accepted for publication at SIGMOD/PODS, but involved in research closely related to the topics of the conference are also encouraged to apply. Applications from female and minority students are especially encouraged. We welcome applications from students all over the world in order to strengthen the connections of the SIGMOD/PODS community across all regions.
Students whose advisor cannot provide financial support to attend the conference will be given priority.
Application Procedure
To apply for a grant, the student must submit the necessary materials through the website at:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SIGMODSTA2025
no later than April 13th (11:59pm PST), 2025. Students are encouraged to have the applications sent as soon as possible. Applications arriving after the deadline will not be considered. The notification date is 27th, 2025. Please submit the following materials (in a single PDF file) with your application:
- Student's full name and email address.
- Name and address of student's school.
- Advisor's full name and email address.
- A one-page abstract from the student, summarizing a broad view of his/her research with motivation, problem description, approach, and progress; the abstract must be written in English and needs to comply with the two-column ACM proceedings format.
- A 1-2 page CV of the student.
- A letter from the student’s advisor stating the adivor’s support for the application and an explanation that the advisor cannot provide sufficient own funds to allow the student to participate in SIGMOD/PODS.
