{
  "id": 3595030,
  "title": "IEEE Student Conference Provides Visibility to Budding Authors",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/ieee-student-conference-provides-visibility-to-budding-authors",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-26T20:00:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "IEEE Spectrum",
    "slug": "ieee-spectrum",
    "url": "https://spectrum.ieee.org/ieee-student-conference-budding-authors"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The IEEE Student Conference, titled Innovating the Future, is set to take place on November 6 and aims to provide a platform for IEEE and IEEE-HKN undergraduate and graduate student authors to showcase their original research papers. The event will feature keynote speeches, thematic presentations, and networking opportunities for attendees. Students must submit an abstract of their research by May 1 for consideration, with successful submissions receiving mentorship from volunteer IEEE members throughout the research writing process. Accepted papers will be submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library for publication.\n\nManuel Castro, the conference's technical program chair, emphasizes the importance of the event in enhancing student authors' research skills and facilitating the transformation of their technical work into publications. Sorel Reisman, an IEEE Life Fellow and professor emeritus at California State University, highlights the timely nature of the conference in the face of the rapidly evolving academic research landscape. Reisman stresses the necessity for future scholars, many of whom are IEEE-HKN students, to understand the standards of legitimate, peer-reviewed research publishing.\n\nA key aspect of the conference is its mentorship program, which pairs each accepted author with an experienced IEEE volunteer. The mentors offer personalized guidance on organizing technical content, navigating the peer review process, structuring presentations, and preparing final manuscripts for publication. IEEE Member Wafa Elmannai, an associate professor at Manhattan University, shares how mentoring can help students build confidence, curiosity, and critical thinking skills while encouraging them to develop innovative solutions that benefit society.\n\nDavid Kwabi-Addo, an IEEE graduate student and president of the IEEE-HKN Beta Theta chapter, views the program as an opportunity to gain experience in producing academic scholarship. He sees the conference as a chance to learn how to communicate his research to a broader audience, gain feedback from fellow student researchers, and learn how to make his work more accessible. The conference also offers workshops on various aspects of the publishing process, including crafting compelling abstracts, determining when a project is ready for publication, writing technical papers, surviving the review cycle, and adapting papers into compelling conference talks. These workshops are open to all and available on the IEEE-HKN YouTube channel. The Innovating the Future program is designed to improve the quality of submissions, foster professional development, and cultivate research communication skills to nurture the next generation of IEEE authors.",
  "summary": "The IEEE–Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN) honor society is preparing to host the Innovating the Future event on 6 November. The inaugural one-day, in-person event is designed to provide a forum for IEEE and IEEE-HKN undergraduate and graduate student authors to present their original research papers. A keynote address and thematic presentation sessions are planned as well. Student attendees can network…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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