The CPS-IoT Week 2026 event is pleased to announce the availability of student travel awards supported by the ACM Special Interest Group on Embedded Systems (SIGBED).
Important Dates
Application Deadline: March 25, 2026, at 23:59 AoE
Notification Deadline: March 28, 2026
Application form: https://forms.gle/NSPA3L586ZxWGN6M7
Eligibility
The travel grant awards funded by ACM SIGBED are open to both US-based and non-US- based students to attend ACM conferences.
Student recipients will be reimbursed (based on valid receipts) up to $2,000 for their expenses (registration, airfare, and hotel) after the conference.
Notes:
- The reimbursement may be adjusted based on the budget and the applicant’s location.
- This travel award is designed to attract new participants to give them an exposure to
research in CPS and IoT. Accordingly, student authors presenting papers, or whose
papers acknowledge grants, will be given lower priority. Students who have attended
CPS-IoT Week in the past 2 years will also receive low priority.
- The applicant must be a SIGBED member (https://sigbed.org/join-us/) before
submitting their application. Priority will be given to applicants (i) whose advisor is also
a SIGBED member, and (ii) the candidate works on a CPS-themed funded research
project OR has published in any top-tier CS conference or journal.
All recipients of the student travel grant awards are required to register for the main conference
program by the awardee acceptance deadline, at the full or the student registration rate. The final
award is contingent upon the recipient showing proof of registration at CPS-IoT Week 2026.
How to apply
[Required by deadline] To apply, complete the application form with the following information. The
form may be accessed via the following link: https://forms.gle/NSPA3L586ZxWGN6M7
- Applicant Information: Full Name, Email Address, Affiliation (university/department), Location
(country and city), Current Academic Program (undergraduate/master’s/PhD), Year in the
Academic Program, SIGBED membership ID, ACM membership ID (optional).
- Advisor’s Information: Full Name, Email Address, Affiliation, Is the advisor a SIGBED Member
(along with membership ID)?
- Research Information: Brief description of research area (4 lines), How is the research related
to CPS/IoT and if it is not then is there a plan to extend it to the CPS-IoT domain (4 lines), Are
you currently working on a funded CPS-related research project (yes/no)? If yes: provide project
title, funding agency, project ID, and duration of the project.
- Publications: List of top-three publications (title, author list, venue, year).
- Participation in CPS-IoT Week 2026: Are you an author of a paper accepted to CPS-IoT Week
2026 (yes/no)? If yes: paper title, conference/workshop, Does the accepted paper acknowledge
any research grants (yes/no)?
- Previous CPS-IoT Week Attendance: Have you attended CPS-IoT Week in the past two years
(yes/no)? If yes: which year(s), and did you have an accepted paper?
- Motivation Statement: Why do you want to attend CPS-IoT Week 2026? How will you contribute
to the CPS/IoT community? Limit your answer to 6 sentences.
- Estimated Travel Budget and Plan: Airfare, Hotel Cost, Registration Cost, and travel date
- Upload full CV, including full list of publications.
- Agreement and acknowledgement: (a) I confirm that I am a SIGBED member before submitting
this application. (b) I understand that the award is reimbursed after the conference with valid
receipts. (c) I understand that I must register for the main conference program if selected. (d) I
agree to provide proof of registration by the acceptance deadline.
Notification & Poster Presentation
Awardees will be notified by email and might be asked to present a poster on their ongoing research
at CPS-IoT Week 2026.
Contact Information
- Please save all the original receipts. You need to upload them later.
- Contact: Samarjit Chakrabory, Pavithra Prabhakar, or Zhishan Guo if there
are any questions (Emails: first name cs unc edu, p<last name> unm edu, zguo32 AT ncsu edu)
