This Program aims to encourage faculty and students from underrepresented parts of the world, e.g.,
to pursue a career related to database research.
The program plans to achieve this aim by earmarking funds (initially) for at least 5 new students and faculty to attend the VLDB conference each year.
Each Fellowship will provide up to US$1,000 to defray conference attendance costs (e.g., travel and lodging) plus conference registration. Awardees will be responsible for their own travel arrangements, including health insurance, if necessary.
Preference will be given to those
Each applicant must have a nominator (senior faculty member or department head in the case of faculty, faculty advisor in the case of students), who should email the information requested below about the nominee and himself/herself as a simple text file attachment
The applicant should provide the following information:
Faculty/working professionals must indicate their current position, including number of years in the profession. Student applicants must include specifics of the program they are enrolled in (major/specialization, graduate/undergraduate, full-time/part-time) along with all courses taken (and respective final grades).
On behalf of the VLDB Endowment,
Krithi Ramamrithan, Johann-Christoph Freytag