Travel: NSF Student Travel Grant for the 2026 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Body Sensor Networks (IEEE BSN)

This project is to support student travel at the 2026 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN 2026). BSN is the premier conference in the areas of wearable sensing, mobile health, and computational medicine. It will bring together leaders and experts in academia, industry, healthcare, and non-profit organizations to provide a cross-disciplinary, highly selective, and single-track forum for cutting-edge research related to devices and sensors, hardware and software systems, artificial intelligence, predictive models, and data analytics in the healthcare/medical domains. Student participants will have opportunities to receive professional support and career advice from internationally recognized experts. Travel support increases engagement with the research community and provides professionally significant opportunities to students who might otherwise not be able to attend the conference. This project aims to increase the accessibility of the scientific forum that is BSN 2026. By attending BSN 2026, students may explore their interests, interact and network with seasoned professionals, and identify the various career paths available within the broader community of health scientists and technologists. With this registration award offsetting the cost of attendance, students who would otherwise find attendance expenses prohibitive can obtain these benefits. BSN 2026 will focus on cutting-edge innovations in computational medicine, including applications of novel sensors and artificial intelligence. Increasing student engagement through the reduction of expenses, this award constitutes an investment in the future of the medical sensor and computational medicine research community; a community that is critical to the next generation of healthcare. This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria. NSF Award ID: 2627425 | Program: 01002627DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT | Principal Investigator: Brandon Oubre | Institution: University of Alabama at Birmingham, BIRMINGHAM, AL | Award Amount: $13,200 View on NSF Award Search: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/show-award/?AWD_ID=2627425 View on Research.gov: https://www.research.gov/awardapi-service/v1/awards/2627425.html