Technologies Awards

We are inviting applications for two Travel Awards (500 Swiss Francs each) for PhD students involved in information and communication technologies research to support participation at an academic conference in 2019. The nominations and applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee chaired by the Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Manoj Gupta.

Candidates’ Requirements:

1. Applicants must be PhD students involved in information and communication technologies (ICT-related) research.
2. The candidate will participate at an international academic conference between February 2019 and February 2020 (poster or oral presentation).

Applicants are required to submit the following documents:

1. The applicant’s oral or poster abstract for the conference (list the conference name and its website).
2. CV, including a complete list of publications.
3. A justification letter (max. 500 words) describing the focus of their research, and what benefits the applicant could get from attending the conference.
4. A letter of recommendation (max. 400 words) from a supervisor or PI (Principal Investigator). The supervisor or PI should sign and confirm that the applicant fulfills all requirements.

Please send your applications to technologies@mdpi.com by 31 January 2019.
The winners will be announced on the Technologies website by the end of February 2019.

As Editor-in-Chief of Technologies, I am pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 Technologies Travel Award on behalf of the Evaluation Committee:

David Reber, PhD student at EMPA (Materials for Energy Conversion), whose research is on aqueous electrolytes for highvoltage aqueous batteries and supercapacitors in the materials for energy. He is planning to orally present his work “A HighVoltage Aqueous Electrolyte for Sodium-Ion Batteries” and post his other work “High-voltage Aqueous Supercapacitors Based on NaTFSI” at the 233rd Electrochemical Society Meeting (13–17 May 2018, Seattle, WA, USA). The award consists of 500 Swiss Francs towards attending this conference.

Maher Abujelala, PhD student at University of Texas at Arlington, whose main research is in the field of human-computer interaction. He is planning to orally present his work “User Skill Assessment Using Informative Interfaces and DynamicUser Modeling for Personalized Robot Assisted Training” at the 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (15–20 July 2018, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA). The award consists of 500 Swiss Francs towards attending this conference.

It was a difficult decision with such high quality applications for the award and we thank all applicants. We wish to congratulate Mr. David Reber and Mr. Maher Abujelala for their accomplishments.

A/Prof. Manoj Gupta,
Editor-in-Chief