VLDB 2024: Travel Support

We are very happy to announce travel support opportunities for students and faculty to attend VLDB 2024 in Guangzhou, China - August 26-30, 2024.

The long-term goal of the program is to encourage talented young scientists to pursue a career in database research. The grants are funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for students enrolled in a US university and the SPEND committee from the VLDB Endowment for non-US based students. The VLDB 2024 is waving registration fees for all recipients of the fellowships.

The grants cover travel and lodging expenses for in-person attendees. Applicants should include a budget in their application. We expect that grants will be up to US$1,750. Expenses will be reimbursed after the conference.

Eligibility and Selection Criteria

Applicants must be full-time students in good standing (graduate or undergraduate), or postdoctoral fellows/researchers, or faculty members who are either

• affiliated with universities that do not already have considerable presence at VLDB conferences
• or
• have a paper at the conference (or associated events).

Applicants must explicitly state that they do not have any other funding to attend. Preference will be given to applicants who demonstrate keen interest in database research and are from regions that are under-represented in the database community; presenting a paper accepted at the main conference or the workshops in VLDB 2024 is welcome but not mandatory.

Application Process

Applicants should fill in the form at https://forms.gle/qDuRGC3NtVykRXCEA by 19 July 2024. Applicants must also have a nominator (faculty advisor for student applicants, or senior faculty member or department head for faculty applicants), who must fill in the nominator form following the link: https://forms.gle/KZpVUH6PYQ2fnJcL7.

Additionally, nominators are kindly asked to send an extra email from their official email-account to bonnet(AT)di.ku.dk, before 19 July 2024, with the subject line of the email being "VLDB 2024 Travel Support Nomination for " in which they confirm their nomination of the applicant.

Should you have any problems with opening the links or filling in the forms, please contact us via bonnet(AT)di.ku.dk. Please note: Applications of US students will be automatically assessed also for the NSF-funded travel grant. US-students do not need to follow a separate application process.

Selected candidates will be informed by 21 July 2024. Persons applying for the VLDB travel support are advised to not register before hearing from us.

SPEND Committee VLDB Endowment

Philippe Bonnet, U.Copenhagen

NSF Fellowship Committee

Abolfazl Asudeh , U. Illinois Chicago