The Texas A&M Institute of Data Science (TAMIDS) Student Travel Grant Program supports undergraduate and graduate students to attend and talk at conferences in any domain of Data Science, AI, and Machine Learning. To qualify for this grant, students’ work should involve an innovation in systems, methods, or algorithms for data collection and management, modeling, analysis, or decision making. In 2024, TAMIDS awarded nine travel grants to students attending or presenting their work at conferences around the country.
One of these students was Jacob Helwig, a Ph.D. candidate in the Texas A&M Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He presented a poster titled “A Geometry-Aware Message Passing Neural Network for Modeling Aerodynamics over Airfoils” at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2024 conference. “TAMIDS has allowed me to attend top machine learning conferences where I have been able to present our work, connect and form collaborations with others in the field, and learn about the latest developments and perspectives,” says Helwig.
Part of TAMIDS’s mission is to promote data science research and education at Texas A&M and beyond. Initiatives like our travel grants allow students to explore the many opportunities in the fields of data science, AI, and machine learning. To read more about our travel grants and how to apply, visit the Student Travel Grant Program page!