Call for Student Travel Award Applications

Description

KDD is a premier conference that brings together researchers and practitioners from data mining, knowledge discovery, data analytics, and big data. Students, who might otherwise be unable to participate, now have the opportunity to attend sessions, tutorials, and workshops, meet other students and researchers from industry and academia, and take advantage of everything KDD’25 has to offer!

KDD’25 will offer travel awards to full-time student attendees. The purpose of the travel grants is to encourage students to participate in the exciting technical and other career enhancement programs at KDD.

The maximum amount of support provided to each grantee as the number of awards is subject to the availability of funds by the sponsors. The award is intended to partially cover the grantee’s expenses. Conference registration will be waived for student travel award grantees. The allocation of the grants will be based on need and acceptance of the student’s publication at KDD’25.

All full-time undergraduate and graduate students interested in data mining or machine learning-related research are encouraged to apply. There is no need to have a paper accepted at the conference to apply.

Requirements

Students receiving the travel awards are required to:

• participate in the conference
  • A valid travel document (e.g., passport, Canada visa if applicable) needs to be provided by July 4th, 2025, to demonstrate your availability to attend the conference. Please note that the award may be revoked if valid travel documents are not provided in a timely manner.
• assist the conference organizers in numerous activities during the event days
• submit the original invoices up to the amount of the travel award for reimbursement after the conference. (Instructions will be sent later.)

For any questions or doubts, please contact us by emailing KDD25-Travel-Chairs@acm.org

Application Instructions

All applicants need to submit their applications to the CMT system [1] by 11:59 PM Anywhere on Earth (AOE), June 8th, 2025, with the following files:

• CV (which includes the applicant’s current status, including institution, type of study [undergraduate, MS, or PhD], number of years in the current program, etc.)
• a brief one-page statement that includes:
  • the applicant’s research interest and their future research plans,
  • a description of how the grant will help them with their research plans,
  • any information or restrictions that the applicant feels relevant to their application,
  • the total budget for attending KDD’25, and how the travel award can help close the gap in attending the conference.
• a reference letter from the applicant’s advisor supporting the application, that:
  • states the relationship with the applicant,
  • confirms that the applicant is a student in good standing,
  • describes how the applicant will benefit from attending KDD, and
  • explains the student’s need for the travel award and whether there is funding available to cover the expenses that are not covered by the student travel award.
• a photo/scan of the student’s ID.

Only PDF documents are accepted. Late submissions or documents in other formats will not be accepted. Submissions that do not follow the above guidelines will not be considered.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: 11:59 PM Anywhere on Earth (AOE), June 8th, 2025.

Decision announced: June 20th, 2025

Travel document verification: July 4th, 2025

[1] “The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.“