MobiSys 2024 ASSET Symposium

Submission Deadlines:

• May 3rd 2024, Notification May 5th 2024

MobiSys 2024 is featuring a special program called ASSET (Asian Student Symposium on Emerging Technologies) as part of SIGMOBILE’s student outreach program. Student participating to ASSET will be divided into small groups and each group will be provided with an excellent and dynamic research mentor who will help them hone their research skills.

Students accepted into the ASSET program will participate to the pre-conference ASSET Symposium, and will receive some financial support to attend MobiSys 2024.

Goals

In particular, ASSET is designed to help students improve their research skills in four ways:

1. Improve students’ ability to present their ideas in written form by working on and continuously improving a 1-page summary of their research plan ⇒ This will improve their ability to write research papers
2. Improve students’ ability to present their ideas by offering each participant the opportunity to present their research ideas in the form of a poster at the main conference poster presentation session ⇒ This will improve their ability to raise other researchers’ interest in their research work when they are given time to present the details
3. Improve students’ ability to present a quick 30s summary (aka “elevator pitch”) of their research by asking each participant to summarize their research to their research mentor every day ⇒ This will improve their ability to convince people that their research ideas are worth listening to!
4. Improve students’ ability to understand and appreciate world class research by attending the talks and presentations at MobiSys and interacting with the MobiSys attendees (a “who’s who” of mobile systems researchers from around the world!) ⇒ This will spark new ideas and collaborations with students, faculty, and industry researchers from top universities and companies located around the world. It will also energize students’ desire to conduct world class research while being immersed in a world class research environment for the entire ASSET stay.

Note: ASSET will be completely run in English. You need to have a minimum proficiency in English to participate. However, you do not need to be a native speaker. We will have people proficient in local languages present to help with translation etc. You just need to be proficient enough to converse with a technical audience in English.

Venue

We are co-locating ASSET with MobiSys as it is the premier research conference for mobile systems research. As such, world-class researchers from all the top universities and industry research labs (e.g. Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc.) will attend. In addition, many graduate students from around the world will also attend making this a perfect venue to start collaborative research with like-minded research individuals.

Previous Runs

This will be the 5th incarnation of ASSET with the first two being in Asia, and the last two in Latin America.

• ASSET 2016 co-located with MobiSys in Singapore
• ASSET 2018 co-located with COMSNETS in Bengalaru, India
• ASSET 2019 co-located with MobiCom in Los Cabos, Mexico
• ASSET 2023 co-located with UbiComp/ISWC in Cancun, Mexico

The huge success of previous versions has given us the drive to continue running ASSET and MobiSys being held in Japan was a perfect opportunity to do so.

How to attend ASSET?

Slots are limited to just 20 graduate student participants (preference given to Ph.D. students) — preferably from Japan. Interested graduate students should submit their request via this online form by the deadline. We ask students to provide:

• 1 page CV
• 1 page research statement
• A short explanation (a few sentences) for why you want to attend ASSET and how it will benefit you (please note the selection criteria below and provide answers accordingly)
• A support letter from your advisor explaining why they think you will benefit from ASSET

Deadline to submit ASSET applications is May 3rd 2024. Notification of acceptance is May 5th 2024.

Selection Criteria

We anticipate that ASSET will be in high demand and our priority is to ensure that travel grants can help us broaden participation of the historically underrepresented community in the conference. In particular, our primary goal is to provide opportunities to students who have never attended a top-tier research conference before and are from underrepresented universities and communities.

ASSET Scholarships

Every student participant selected for ASSET may be provided a special scholarship to cover a portion of their registration fee

Contact

Rajesh Krishna Balan, Singapore Management University, rajesh@smu.edu.sg