ACM MobiSys 2021 Student Mentorship Program

This is your chance to meet the person whose work you follow and discuss research with them! The mentorship meetups will run a week before the conference (from June 18 to 24). During the conference (June 24th to July 2nd) we will host other events for students.

Program Details

Wednesday 9.30 AM to 10.30 AM (US Eastern Time) Student Research Meet 1, GatherTown breakout rooms

• Breakout room 1: Karthik Dantu, Bhuvana Krishnaswamy
• Breakout room 2: Kasthuri Jayarajah, Lin Zhong
• Breakout room 3: Ozgu Alay, Ana Aguiar
• Breakout room 4: Diego Perino, Bashima Islam
• Breakout room 5: Google

Thursday 11.00 AM to 12.00 Noon (US Eastern Time) Student Research Meet 2, GatherTown breakout rooms

• Breakout room 1: Steve Ko, Polly Huang
• Breakout room 2: Shubham Jain, VP Nguyen
• Breakout room 3: Robin Kravets, Robert LiKamwa
• Breakout room 4: Deepak Vashisht, Jennifer Chen
• Breakout room 5: Google
• Breakout room 6: Microsoft

Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday sessions

In addition to the scheduled student meets, we’ll run a number of informal “debriefing sessions”, like informal chats where you might discuss with your advisors how you find the conference, etc. Here are the times (all US Eastern Time):

• 6/29, 9.20 - 10.00 PM, after Session IV;
• 6/30, 4.00 - 4.30 PM (after Session VI);
• 7/1, 9.30-10.30 AM (before industry talk);
• 7/2, 11.20 AM - Noon (between Session IX and Panel II).

These will be held in the auditorium, and we’ll set up a number of broadcast areas in the room. Please go to those areas to speak.

We will send further announcements on Slack nearer the time.

Sponsor events

The sponsors (e.g., Google, Microsoft) will hold sessions for students to go and talk to. These will be announced on the slack channel.

Call for Applications

Student Mentorship Program & Student Conference Grant

ACM MobiSys 2021 is calling for applications for this year’s student mentorship program & conference grant.

The application deadline is May 31st 2021.

Please fill out the form here (for both the mentorship program and conference grant): https://forms.gle/JxJxss7Nc3PyjTNR8

Student Conference Grant

Generous conference grants are available for students to cover the conference registration. Please use the same form above to indicate whether you’d like to be considered for this grant. Decisions will be announced a week after the application deadline. Student grant awardees will be provided with free registration codes.

Apart from the student conference grant, those who are eligible can also apply for the ACM MobiSys N2Women Fellowship. Please visit https://n2women.comsoc.org/fellowships/ for more details.

You need to register for ACM MobiSys to participate in the mentorship program. However, please do not register before hearing back about the student grant, because reimbursement will be harder.

For enquiries related to the Mentorship Program, please reach out to our Student Mentorship Chairs:

Aruna Balasubramanian (arunab@cs.stonybrook.edu) and Ana Aguiar (anaa@fe.up.pt)

For enquiries related to the Conference Grant, please reach out to our Student Grants Chair:

Wenjun Hu (wenjun.hu@yale.edu)