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Graduate Student Research Grants

Walter J. Karplus - In Memoriam

The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) will fund scholarships for deserving graduate students who need financial support for their research during a summer period. Any student with a meritorious project is invited to apply, but scholarships will be granted only to applicants who are student members of the IEEE at the time of the grant.

Each scholarship may cover expenses related to:

  1. summer support at their home institution for intensive work on a particular project.
  2. a visit to another university, institute or research agency for collaboration with an identified researcher in the field of interest of the applicant.

Funds cannot be used for conference travel or buying computers.

The field of interest of applicants is open, but should be connected with identifiable component of the CIS (neural networks, fuzzy systems, or evolutionary computation).

The amount of a CIS scholarship varies from $1,000 to $4,000. We expect to award 3-5 scholarships every year. The number of scholarships is dependent on budget approval by CIS ADCOM. Renewals and continuations for a second year of summer support will be considered only if the justification for such a request is sufficiently compelling.

To apply for a CIS scholarship, interested applicants should submit a proposals to the Chair of the CIS Graduate Student Research Grants Sub-Committee. Your proposal should state the general purpose of your request, and should follow these guidelines:

  1. detailed explanation of the research to be conducted with the support from the scholarship (10pt font, 3 page maximum)
  2. references related to research (10pt font, 1 page maximum)
  3. a timeline of tasks required to complete research goals
  4. a fully explanatory budget (1 page maximum)
  5. your resume (1 page maximum)
  6. 2 reference letters supporting your application (including letters from sponsoring professors, if applicable). These must be included with your application and are not to be received individually
  7. you need to be a member of IEEE and the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (provide IEEE member number).

Reference letters can also be sent directly to the Grant Application System administrator or the Graduate Student Research Grants Sub-Committee Chair in order to submit them without the intermediary of the student. Such letters will then not be viewable by the student.

All applications MUST BE RECEIVED no later than the deadline through the Grant Application System.

Evaluation and selection will be based on:

  1. Merit of the research to be supported
  2. Originality of the research
  3. Qualification and past performance
  4. Supporting references
  5. Reasonableness of budget

Decisions of the Graduate Student Research Grants Sub-Committee will be announced within 3 months from the application deadline.

After the end of the sponsored project:

  1. Student's research sponsor needs to provide a certification stating that the student has performed satisfactory research work as proposed and meet the goal set forth in the proposal.
  2. Upon certification by the student's research sponsor, the student will receive funds as reimbursements for his/her expenses.
  3. Final technical report in the format of a major CIS conference publication are due on December 1 of the award year.

Note the following dates:


    Submission of applications: February 15, 2010 - April 10, 2010 ·
    Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2010


IEEE CIS subcommittee on Research Grants Roster 2010

Bernadette Bouchon-MeunierBernadette Bouchon-Meunier, Chair
LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
104 avenue du Président Kennedy
75016 Paris, France
phone: (+33 1) 4427 7003
fax: (+33 1) 4427 7000
email: Bernadette.Bouchon-Meunier .a_t. lip6.fr
www: webia.lip6.fr/~bouchon/indexeng.htm
Rami AbielmonaRami Abielmona
Larus Technologies
58 Antares Drive, Unit 1
Ottawa, ON, Canada
phone: +1 613 244 8916
fax: +1 613 244 9941
email: rabielmo .a_t. ieee.org
www: www.larus.com
Clare Bates CongdonClare Bates Congdon
Department of Computer Science
University of Southern Maine
P.O. Box 9300
Portland, ME 04104-9300, USA
phone: 207.228.8441
fax: 207.228.8271
email: congdon .a_t. usm.maine.edu
www: www.cs.usm.maine.edu/~congdon/
Oscar CordonOscar Cordon
European Centre for Soft Computing
Edificio Cientifico-Tecnologico, planta 3
C. Gonzalo Gutierrez Quiros, s/n
33600 - Mieres (Asturias), Spain
phone: (+34) 985 45 65 45
fax: (+34) 985 45 66 99
email: oscar.cordon .a_t. softcomputing.es
www: www.softcomputing.es/oscarcordon
Valerie CrossValerie Cross
Associate Professor
Miami University, USA
email: crossv .a_t. muohio.edu
Pablo A. EstevezPablo A. Estevez
Department of Electrical Engineering
Universidad de Chile
Av Tupper 2007
Santiago, Chile 8370451, Chile
phone: (+56 2) 978 4207
fax: (+56 2) 672 0162
email: pestevez .a_t. cec.uchile.cl
www: www.cec.uchile.cl/~pestevez/
Frank HoffmannFrank Hoffmann
Lehrstuhl für Regelungssystemtechnik (RST)
Fakultät für Elektro- und Informationstechnik Technische Universität Dortmund
D-44221 Dortmund, Germany
phone: +49-231-755-3998
fax: +49-231-755-2752
email: frank.hoffmann .a_t. tu-dortmund.de
www: www.rst.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/cms/de/Lehrstuhl/Mitarbeiter/Oberingenieur/Frank_Hoffmann.php
Christophe MarsalaChristophe Marsala
UPMC-LIP6
104 avenue du Président Kennedy
75016 Paris, France
phone: 33 1 44 27 88 06
fax: 33 1 44 27 70 00
email: christophe.marsala .a_t. lip6.fr
www: webia.lip6.fr/~marsala/homepage/Eng/index.html
Mika Sato-IlicMika Sato-Ilic
Department of Risk Engineering, Faculty of Systems and Information Engineering
University of Tsukuba
Tennodai 1-1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573
Japan
phone: +81-29-853-5006
fax: +81-29-853-5006
email: mika .a_t. sk.tsukuba.ac.jp
Woei Wan TanWoei Wan Tan
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
National University of Singapore
4 Engineering Drive 3
Singapore 117576
phone: +65 6516 8323
fax: +65 6779 1103
email: wwtan .a_t. nus.edu.sg
www: www.ece.nus.edu.sg/stfpage/eletanww

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