Finance Day offers two categories of travel awards: student travel award and travel award for junior female attendees, including female students, postdocs, and junior faculty members. Each award provides up to US$700. Priority for receiving the travel awards will be given to applicants who already have FinTech work.

Please submit your application to Prof. Guiling (Grace) Wang at gwang@njit.edu with subject line [KDD Finance Day Travel Award Application].

Travel Award for Female Students/Junior Faculty Members

Applicant Eligibility

  1. Each applicant must be a female student or a female junior faculty member, located in the United States.
  2. The awardees are required to attend KDD Finance Day 2023.
  3. During the expense reimbursement stage, an awardee must provide proof of registration for KDD Finance Day 2023.

What to Submit

  1. Up-to-date CV
  2. A half-to-one page letter to state the purpose of attending KDD Finance Day.

We remind you that awarded applicants must register and attend the KDD conference.

Student Travel Award

Applicant Eligibility

  1. Each applicant must be a student located in the United States.
  2. The awardees are required to attend the KDD Finance Day 2023.
  3. During the expense reimbursement stage, an awardee must provide proof of registration for KDD Finance Day 2023.

What to Submit

  1. Up-to-date CV
  2. A half-to-one page letter to state the purpose of attending KDD Finance Day.
  3. A support letter from the student’s advisor (optional)

We remind you that awarded applicants must register and attend the KDD conference.

Important Dates

  • Application Deadline: June 26th, 2023
  • Notification: July 1st, 2023

Important Notes

Payment will only be made to grant recipients who submit an expense report with all the receipts within 15 days after KDD Finance Day.