4.1.6 Travel Grant Selection Process approved 12/94, updated 03/06

Guidelines for Choosing a Grant Recipient

The regional directors may use the following general guidelines while considering STG nominations:

• Rank papers using paper technical scores.
• If author has 2 or more papers accepted, you may opt to improve his/her ranking.
• If there is a large number of papers from one university or the same supervising professor, you may opt to downgrade some lower-ranked papers.
• If many top papers are from the same region or geographical area, you may opt to move up papers from other areas to improve the balance of papers from different areas
• If you receive information that an author may have more of a hardship than other authors, you may opt to improve his/her ranking.
• Determine whether candidate is a Student Member of the IEEE Communications Society.
• Significance to the conference - if applicant has 2 or more papers selected for the conference and could not attend without a grant; determine whether the impact to the conference is significant enough to justify awarding the applicant a travel grant.