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ACM SIGWEB Student Travel Awards
ACM SIGIR Student Travel Awards
Thanks to the generous support of ACM SIGWEB, we will provide travel awards to select students attending the CIKM 2025 conference. This award is designated to support student diversity and students from underrepresented regions.
The travel award will cover the cost of the conference registration (main conference and workshops/tutorials if desired) and some travel expenses. The awards will be competitive in the sense that only some applicants are guaranteed to receive a travel award.
Awardees are expected to register for the main conference and arrange travel and accommodation. Awardees will receive a complimentary registration code to cover their registration. Recipients will be reimbursed for travel expenses after the conference is over upon submission of the expense receipts.
Eligibility
Applicants need to be full-time students (graduate or undergraduate). Applicants do not need to have an accepted paper to be eligible.
One may apply for both travel award programs (i.e., ACM SIGWEB and ACM SIGIR Student Travel Award) if eligible, but may receive only one.
Application Procedure
Please submit the following materials (in a single PDF file) with your application:
A cover letter showing
Student’s full name, email address, and name of academic institution
(If available) Advisor’s name and email address
A brief statement, describing
their current research (e.g., motivation, problem, approach, and progress),
how attending CIKM 2025 will benefit their research and career, and
their current research (e.g., motivation, problem, approach, and progress),
how do they plan to contribute to the CIKM and broader research community
CV (up to 2 pages), including degree program and expected graduation date.
A letter of endorsement from an advisor or a department chair that confirms that the applicant is a full-time student.
(Optional) demographic data (e.g., gender, ethnicity) for reporting purposes.
Important dates
Award Application Submission Deadline: August 20, 2025
Award Acceptance Notification: September 4, 2025
All deadlines are 11:59 pm anywhere on earth.
Please do not register for the conference ahead of the notification date as SIGIR Awards cannot reimburse you for the registration. If awarded a travel award, you will receive a code for a registration fee waiver.
For further questions, contact the CIKM 2025 Travel Awards Committee: cikm2025-travelawards@easychair.org.
Dongwon Lee (Student Travel Award Co-Chair), Penn State University
Dawei Zhou (Student Travel Award Co-Chair), Virginia Tech