This project provides funding for travel awards to graduate students in order to attend the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis for Systems and Software (ISPASS-2014). ISPASS is a premier forum for presenting, discussing, and debating advanced academic and industrial research work focused on performance analysis in the design of computer systems and software.
This project is focused primarily on broader impacts through the education students will receive from attending the technical sessions of ISPASS, mentoring that they will receive through the interaction with senior researchers, and networking opportunities they will receive through numerous different conference activities.
Travel Support for the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software Carole-Jean Wu, Arizona State University, Student Travel Chair for ISPASS 2014 Overview: The purpose of this proposal is to request travel support funds that will enable students to be able to defray the costs associated with traveling toand attending ISPASS-2014. The conference will be held in Monterey,California. ISPASS is a premium conference in the field of ComputerSystems and Software. The conference is typically sponsored by IEEE Computer Society'sTechnical Committee on Internet, Technical Committee on Computer Architecture, and Technical Committee on Microprogramming and Microarchitecture. Intellectual Merit: The IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis on Systems and Software provides a forum for sharing advanced academic and industrialresearch work focused on performance analysis in the design of computersystems and software. The Symposium covers a wide range of topics in thefield, including but not limited to: Performance and power evaluation methodologies Performance and power analysis Power/Performance analysis of commercial and experimental hardware Power/Performance analysis of emerging workloads and software Application and system code tuning and optimization Confirmations or refutations of important prior results Students will be able to attend all events associated with the conference, as well a rich set of workshops and a diverse tutorial program. Broader Impact: Support from this grant will be distributed to students who may otherwise beunable to attend the ISPASS conference. Our grant selection process will givepriority to US citizens and permanent residents, with special consideration tomembers of under-represented groups and participants from universities that donot have a strong tradition in the ISPASS research domain, in order to expandthe conference participation. Furthermore, special funding will be providedfor Companion Travel Grants to support attendees with either disabilities, ora parent of an infant less than one year old who cannot travel without theinfant and a care provider for the infant. These efforts are anticipated tobroaden the participation in the conference and, subsequently, theresearch field. Outcome: Student travel applications were solicited via the conference website and the email lists of professional organizations. This year, there were 81 registered attendees, and a total of 37 students applied for and 13 students received travel awards. One awardee was not ultimately able to attend the conference. The table below shows the final list of award recipients, their universities, the amounts awarded and claimed, and demography information. The award selections were prioritized as follows: Students from universities that do not have a strong tradition in the ISPASS research domain; US students or universities; Attendees who belong to under-represented minorities (including women) The award amounts from NSF were determined as follows (highlighted in the table below): Two students were awarded fully with the requested amount, i.e., Nazor; Rangel. Three students were awarded $750 each, i.e., Agarwal, Guitierrez; Tithi. The remaining fund from the NSF student travel grant ($660) was award to Li. No students from institutes outside the US were funded. A diverse set of students were supported by the ISPASS Student Travel Grant – 6 of the 13 students awarded are under-represented minorities and 5 of the 13 students are currently pursuing undergraduate degrees. Among the students supported by the NSF Student Travel Award, 6 of the 7 students supported belonged to the group of under-represented minorities and 2 of the 7 students are currently pursuing undergraduate degrees. As shown in the table, $2500 of the funds came from IEEE TCuArch funds, $5000 of the funds from NSF, and the remaining $350 came from leftover ISPASS funds. Student University (Program) Demography Information Addl. Information Award Amount Funding Source Agarwal University of Michigan, (PhD) Women; Non-US Paper 750 NSF Combs Sonama State University (BS) Undergrad.; US Volunteer 500* IEEE Dai University of Toronto (PhD) Non-US Poster Not funded Fang University of British Columbia (PhD) Non-US Paper Not funded Farmahini University of Wisconsin - Madison (PhD) Non-US Paper 400 IEEE Fu Princeton University (PhD) Non-US Paper 500 IEEE & ISPASS Gao University of Michigan (PhD) Non-US Poster Not funded Gutierrez University of Michigan (PhD) Hispanic; US Paper 750 NSF Huang Chinese Academy of Sciences (PhD) Non-US Paper Not funded Korgaonkar UCSD (PhD) Non-US Attending Not funded Kurian MIT (PhD) Non-US Poster Not funded Li North Carolina State University (PhD) China Paper 660 NSF McHale Texas A&M (PhD) US Attending 450 IEEE Nazor Sonama State University (BS) Women; Undergrad.; US Volunteer 670* NSF Neuman MIT (PhD) Hispanic; US Attending 750 NSF Olson Sonama State University (BS) Undergrad.; US Volunteer 500* NSF Rangel Sonama State University (BS) Women; Undergrad.; US Volunteer 670* NSF Santiago Sonama State University (BS) Undergrad.; US Volunteer Not Attending Targhetta Texas A&M (PhD) US Paper 500 IEEE Tithi SUNY Stony Brook (PhD) Women; Non-US Paper 750 NSF
