Gary Marsden Travel Award Recipients

The Gary Marsden Travel Awards (GMTA) supports SIGCHI members who are students, early career researchers, or those experiencing financial hardship or lack of institutional support, in attending SIGCHI conferences. Below, we list the recipients of the GMTA since its inauguration in 2021 to support transparency around how the community support budget is used.

2023

January

  1. Abigail Oppong, Independent Researcher, Ghana, CHI ’23
  2. Advait Bhat, Microsoft Research India, India, IUI ’23
  3. Aino Elina Ojala, Aalto University, Finland, TEI ’23
  4. Amaan Rahman, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, USA, CHI ’23
  5. Bo Liu, University of Washington, USA, CHI ’23
  6. Changkun Ou, LMU Munich, Germany, IUI ’23
  7. Claudia Marcela Diaz Reyes, Tallinn University, Estonia, TEI ’23
  8. Daniele Malitesta, Politecnico di Bari, Italy, UMAP ’23
  9. Daniella DiPaola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, CHI ’23
  10. Fabio Le Piane, University of Bologna – CNR/ISMN, Italy, IUI ’23
  11. Fiona Bell, University of Colorado Boulder, USA, TEI ’23
  12. Garret Allen, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, IUI ’23
  13. Greta Warren, University College Dublin, Ireland, IUI ’23
  14. Hongyu Mao, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, CHI ’23
  15. Hope Schroeder, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, CHI ’23
  16. I-Sheng (Eason) Chen, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan, CHI ’23
  17. Iman Mohammadi, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, CHI ’23
  18. Jeroen Ooge, KU Leuven, Belgium, IUI ’23
  19. Josh Urban Davis, Dartmouth College, USA, CHI ’23
  20. Ka Hei Cheng, Louisiana State University, USA, TEI ’23
  21. Kyzyl John Monteiro, IIIT Delhi, India, CHI ’23
  22. Lauren Hagen, University of Minnesota, USA, CHI ’23
  23. Nilavra Bhattacharya, University of Texas at Austin, USA, CHI ’23
  24. Pragathi Praveena, University of Wisconsin- Madison, USA, CHI ’23
  25. Purnima Kamath, National University of Singapore, Singapore, IUI ’23
  26. Rachit Bhayana, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology – Delhi, India, CSCW ’23
  27. Tram Thi Minh Tran, The University of Sydney, Australia, CHI ’23
  28. Yohai Trabelsi, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, IUI ’23
  29. Zheng Ning, University of Notre Dame, USA, IUI ’23

February

  1. Adil Rahman, University of Virginia, USA, CHI ’23
  2. Adrian Bolesnikov, Independent Researcher, CHI ’23
  3. Alba Bisante, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, IUI ’23
  4. Ang Li, The University of Queensland, Australia, CHI ’23
  5. Angela Mastrianni, Bryn Mawr College, USA, CHI ’23
  6. Anirudh Ganesh, Dalhousie University, Canada, CHI ’23
  7. Anran Xu, the University of Tokyo, Japan, IUI ’23
  8. Anupriya Tuli, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology – Delhi, India, CHI ’23
  9. Aoi Minamoto, Indiana University, USA, HRI ’23
  10. Arissa Janejera Sato, The University of Tokyo, Japan, CHI ’23
  11. Asra Sakeen Wani, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology – Delhi , India, CHI ’23
  12. Avinash Bhat, McGill University, Canada, CHI ’23
  13. Bo-Cheng Ke, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, CHI ’23
  14. Bogoan Kim, Hanyang University, South Korea, CHI ’23
  15. Carol F Scott, University of Michigan, USA, CHI ’23
  16. Cesar Collazos, Universidad del Cauca, Colombia, CHI ’23
  17. Chang Xiang, Sichuan University, China, CHI ’23
  18. Cheng Chen, Elon University, USA, CHI ’23
  19. Christos Gkoumas, University of Cyprus, Cyprus, CHI ’23
  20. Dani Kalarikalayil Raju, Indian Institute of Technology – Bombay, India, CHI ’23
  21. Danielle Langlois, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, CHI ’23
  22. Derianna Thomas, Northumbria University, UK, CHI ’23
  23. Erasmo Purificato, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany, UMAP ’23
  24. Ethan Rong, University of Toronto, Canada, CHI ’23
  25. Eyal Ginosar, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, CHI ’23
  26. Farhat Tasnim Progga, Marquette University, USA, CHI ’23
  27. Farnaz Jahanbakhsh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, CHI ’23
  28. Fei Xue, University of California – Davis, USA, CHI ’23
  29. Fuling Sun, University Of California – San Diego, USA, CHI ’23
  30. Gabriel Camilo Lima, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, South Korea, CHI ’23
  31. Garrett Smith, Brigham Young University, USA, CHI ’23
  32. Gisela Reyes-Cruz, University of Nottingham, UK, CHI ’23
  33. Gulnar Rakhmetulla, University of California – Merced, USA, CHI ’23
  34. Hye-Young Jo, Chung-ang University, South Korea, CHI ’23
  35. Hyunmin Lee, University of Seoul, South Korea, IUI ’23
  36. Iustina Ivanova, University of Portsmouth, UK, IUI ’23
  37. Jasper Tran O’Leary, University of Washington, USA, CHI ’23
  38. Jeanine Krath, University of Koblenz, Germany, CHI ’23
  39. Jennifer Bertrand, University of Alberta, Canada, CHI ’23
  40. Jiaxun Cao, Duke Kunshan University, China, CHI ’23
  41. Jingwen Zhu, Cornell University, USA, CHI ’23
  42. Kangyou Yu, University of California – Santa Barbara, USA, CHI ’23
  43. Kexue Fu, Chongqing University, China, CHI ’23
  44. Kornel Lewicki, University of Cambridge, UK, CHI ’23
  45. Mairi Deighan, University of Bristol, UK, CHI ’23
  46. Marie Christelle Melanie Bancilhon, Washington University, USA, CHI ’23
  47. Matthew Joerke, Stanford University, USA, IUI ’23
  48. Maylon Pires Macedo, Federal University of São Carlos – UFSCAR, Brazil, EICS ’23
  49. Md Momen Bhuiyan, Virginia Tech, USA, CHI ’23
  50. Mehrad Faridan, University of Calgary, Canada, CHI ’23
  51. Meiyin Melissa Chang Rizzo, Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral, Ecuador, CHI ’23
  52. Miriam Sturdee, University of St. Andrews, UK, CHI ’23
  53. Naoto Nishida, The University of Tokyo, Japan, CHI ’23
  54. Oliver Deane, University of Bristol, UK, IUI ’23
  55. Olivia Doggett, University of Toronto, Canada, CHI ’23
  56. Ori Farook, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, HRI ’23
  57. Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, CHI ’23
  58. Pooja Upadhyay, University of Maryland, USA, CHI ’23
  59. Ran Zhou, University of Colorado Boulder, USA, CHI ’23
  60. Rie Kamikubo, University of Maryland, College Park, USA, CHI ’23
  61. Salma Elsayed-Ali, University of Maryland, College Park, USA, CHI ’23
  62. Santawat Thanyadit, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand, CHI ’23
  63. Sarah Dsane, University of Cape Town, South Africa, CHI ’23
  64. Saša Brdnik, University of Maribor, Slovenia, IUI ’23
  65. Shravika Mittal, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, CHI ’23
  66. Shwetha Rajaram, University of Michigan, USA, CHI ’23
  67. Simret Araya Gebreegziabher, University of Notre Dame, USA, CHI ’23
  68. Songlin Xu, University of California – San Diego, USA, CHI ’23
  69. Sunnie Kim, Princeton University, USA, CHI ’23
  70. Sunny Prakash Prajapati, Indian Institute of Technology – Bombay, India, IUI ’23
  71. Tanusree Sharma, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA, CHI ’23
  72. Tawfique Elahi, North South University, Bangladesh, CHI ’23
  73. Vishal Sharma, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, CHI ’23
  74. Wenchao Li, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, CHI ’23
  75. Xinyi Lu, University of Michigan, USA, CHI ’23
  76. Yiwen Wang, University of Maryland, College Park, USA, CHI ’23
  77. Yongsu Ahn, University of Pittsburgh, USA, CHI ’23
  78. Yu Liang, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, IUI ’23
  79. Yuexing Hao, Cornell Unviersity, USA, CHI ’23
  80. Zhihan Zhang, University of Washington, USA, CHI ’23
  81. Zhou Chen, National University of Singapore, Singapore, CHI ’23
  82. Zhuo Wang , Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China, CHI ’23

March

  1. Abiodun Afolayan Ogunyemi, Tallinn University, Estonia, CHI ’23
  2. Aishwarya Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, USA, CHI ’23
  3. Aketzali de la Cruz Villarreal, Universidad Tecnológica de la Mixteca, Mexico, CHI ’23
  4. Andrea Campagner, IRCCS Ospedale Galeazzi Sant’Ambrogio, Italy, CHI ’23
  5. Anubha Singh, University of Michigan, USA, CHI ’23
  6. Betsy Lilibeth Nazareno Aguiño, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Ecuador, CHI ’23
  7. Bine Roth, University of the Arts London, UK, CHI ’23
  8. Cai Runze, National University of Singapore, Singapore, CHI ’23
  9. Chadha Degachi , Independent Researcher, Netherlands, CHI ’23
  10. Chun-Wei Chiang, Purdue University, USA, CHI ’23
  11. Cristina Palmero Cantarino, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain, ETRA ’23
  12. Dhruv Verma, University of Toronto, Canada, UbiComp ’23
  13. Dilara Kekulluoglu, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, CSCW ’23
  14. Divya Madhav Kamath, Queen’s University, Canada, CHI ’23
  15. Eiad Yafi, Institute of Business, Australia, CHI ’23
  16. Emma (Yujia) Ning, University of Illinois Chicago, USA, CHI ’23
  17. Esen Kucuktutuncu, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain, ETRA ’23
  18. Eva-Maria Strumegger, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Prevention, Austria, CHI ’23
  19. Friederike Fröbel, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, Germany, CHI ’23
  20. Gaole He, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, CHI ’23
  21. Gaurav Jain, Columbia University, USA, CHI ’23
  22. Hafeni Mthoko, Independent Researcher, Namibia, CHI ’23
  23. Hawra Rabaan, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, USA, CHI ’23
  24. Hen Chen Yen, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, CHI ’23
  25. Hong Xian Chen, National Chengchi University, Taiwan, CHI ’23
  26. Isaac Makosa, Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia, CHI ’23
  27. Jasmine Lu, University of Chicago, USA, CHI ’23
  28. Jiazhou Liu, Monash University, Australia, CHI ’23
  29. Kamala Payyapilly Thiruvenkatanathan, The Pennsylvania State University, USA, CHI ’23
  30. Kaulyaalalwa Peter , Namibia University of Science and Technology , Namibia, IMX ’23
  31. Khatriza Ahmad Saffian, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia, CHI ’23
  32. Lei Zhang, University of Michigan, USA, CHI ’23
  33. Leticia Santos Machado, Federal University of Jequitinhonha and Mucuri Valleys, Brazil, CHI ’23
  34. Leya George, University College London, UK, CHI ’23
  35. Lorans Alabood, University of Calgary , Canada, CHI ’23
  36. Louise Barkhuus, The IT University of Copenhagen/Columbia University, Denmark, CHI ’23
  37. Luciana Sá Brito, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, CHI ’23
  38. Mitra Lashkari, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada, CHI ’23
  39. Netta Ofer, University of Colorado Boulder, USA, CHI ’23
  40. Nikhil Singh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, CHI ’23
  41. Pallabi Bhowmick, Indiana University Bloomington, USA, CHI ’23
  42. Paul Strohmeier, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany, CHI ’23
  43. Pranjal Protim Borah, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India, CHI ’23
  44. Radha Kumaran, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, CHI ’23
  45. Rafiah Patel , City, University of London, UK, CHI ’23
  46. Ruiyi Liu, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, CHI ’23
  47. Ruth Nagassa, Monash University, Australia, CHI ’23
  48. Samantha Aziz, Texas State University, USA, ETRA ’23
  49. Samuelle Bourgault, University of California Santa Barbara, USA, CHI ’23
  50. Sean Dorr, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, USA, CHI ’23
  51. Sharifa Negesa, University of Cape Town, South Africa, CHI ’23
  52. Shimmila Bhowmick, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India, CHI ’23
  53. Shuai Ma, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, CHI ’23
  54. Syed Fatiul Huq, University of California, Irvine, USA, CHI ’23
  55. Tan Gemicioglu, Microsoft Research / Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, CHI ’23
  56. Vanissa Wanick, University of Southampton, UK, CHI ’23
  57. Vikram Kamath Cannanure, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, CHI ’23
  58. Xingyu Yang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, CHI ’23
  59. Yasasi Abeysinghe, Old Dominion University, USA, ETRA ’23
  60. Yingting Chen, The University of Tokyo, Japan, CHI ’23
  61. Youjin Choe, University of Melbourne, Australia, CHI ’23
  62. Yu-Chun Chen, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwain, CHI ’23
  63. Yuanchao Li, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, CHI ’23
  64. Yuta Ikeya, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, CHI ’23
  65. Zeynep Yıldız, Koç University, Turkey, CHI ’23