Dear all,
[Apologies for cross-posting]
We are pleased to share with the community the call for financial support for the 2025 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA-25), to be held at Granlibakken Tahoe resort near Lake Tahoe, in Tahoe City, CA., October 12th to October 15th, 2025.
This year, following the efforts of the WASPAA 2023 organizers, we plan to make strong efforts to promote diversity and inclusivity at WASPAA, allocating a large amount of funding towards grants for students and young professional community members. We offer financial aid, including travel grants, registration waivers, diversity/inclusion grants, and child care support. See information below for eligibility. Although applications will be open in July, we want to share this with the community now to encourage submissions from students and young professionals.
Please help us spread the word.
Looking forward to seeing many applications!
Shoichi Koyama (NII) and Yun-Ning (Amy) Hung (Music.AI), WASPAA 2025 Diversity and Inclusion Chairs
Jonathan Le Roux (MERL) and Timo Gerkmann (University of Hamburg), WASPAA 2025 General Co-Chairs
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WASPAA 2025 Call for Financial Support
We are continuing our commitment to promote diversity and inclusivity at WASPAA and are offering substantial support for grants to our students and young professional community members at WASPAA 2025. Our funding is in partnership with the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) and SPS Student and Young Professionals (SYP) Fund. We also acknowledge the generous support of our Gold and Silver sponsors.
If you have not submitted to WASPAA in the past due to financial constraints, please see below.
Important Dates
April 30, 2025: Full paper submission deadline (abstract due a week before).
July 2, 2025: Paper acceptance notification.
July 2, 2025: Financial support grant application open.
July 16, 2025: Demo submission deadline.
July 16, 2025: Camera-ready papers deadline.
July 23, 2025: Demo acceptance notification.
July 26, 2025: Financial support grant submission deadline
August 9, 2025: Notification of financial support grants
August 17, 2025: Early registration deadline for authors
August 18, 2025: Registration open to the public
October 12-15, 2025: Workshop.
All the deadlines above are the end of the calendar day (23:59), in AoE time zone (UTC-12:00).
Forms of Support
We are offering various forms of financial support, in the form of travel grants, registration waivers, diversity & inclusion grants, and child care grants. To be eligible for any of these grants, applicants should be the first author of the paper, and be a student author or young professional (SYP), meaning that they are either enrolled in a degree-granting academic program in the 2023-2024 and/or 2024-2025 academic year(s); or they are young professionals that finished their first degree (undergraduate degree) at most 15 years ago.
Participants can apply to more than one grant and accumulate awards as long as they are eligible. See the eligibility criteria below.
Registration waivers
Any first author of an accepted paper or demo can apply to a registration waiver award as long as they are a student author for a young professional according to the criteria explained above. Waivers will be granted based on availability of funds and merit.
Travel grants
These grants are available for first authors of an accepted paper or demo who are student authors or young professionals according to the criteria explained above. The grants consist of awards of US$500 when traveling within the same continent, and up to US$1000 when travel between continents is involved. These grants are towards covering the travel expenses upon presentation of receipts. The grants are awarded based on the quality of the submission, the degree of financial need, the applicant’s newness to the community, and the applicant’s geographical diversity.
Diversity & Inclusion Grants
Additional support is available to those authors that are students or young professionals identifying as women, Black, African, African-American or an ethnic/racial minority (of the author’s region); authors coming from low- or middle-income countries, authors identifying as LGBTQIA, and unaffiliated researchers. These grants consist of awards of US$500 up to US$1000 towards covering expenses related to the conference upon presentation of receipts. See further details on eligibility below.
Child Care Grants
There are a limited number of child care grants (US$200-US$500) upon presentation of receipts for authors who are bringing small children to the workshop or who incur on extra expenses for in-home child care while attending the conference. Child care grants will be awarded prioritizing mother-authors, and those who express financial need. To be eligible for this grant applicants should be student authors or young professionals as specified in the criteria above.
Procedure
Grant applications will open on July 2, and close on July 26, of 2025. Please apply for grants using this google form: TBA. We request grant applicants to wait until the grant application decision (Aug. 9, 2025) before registering for the conference.
You will be considered for all the grants that you applied and qualify for, based on the information you provide in the application. All grant applications shall be processed with utmost confidentiality by only a few organizing members including Diversity and Inclusion Chairs, Awards Chair, and General Co-Chairs. Any information provided on the application shall only be used for assessment of grant eligibility and not for any other purpose.
Questions?
Email: grants@xxxxxxxxxx