Travel: NSF Student Travel Grant for 2025 Digital Forensics Research Conference (DFRWS)

The Annual Digital Forensic Research Conference (DFRWS) is a long-running security and privacy conference that focuses on topics around digital forensics and attracts a variety of academic, industry, and law enforcement participants. This award will support student travel to the 25th edition of this conference, to be held in July 2025. Funding this travel will expose undergraduate and graduate students to state-of-the-art digital forensic research while connecting them to the larger community of digital forensics researchers and practitioners. Students will also be encouraged to present posters on their own work to both promote their ideas and get expert feedback.

This grant will provide travel support to about 6 U.S.-based students who otherwise have limited travel funding and so might not be able to attend. The conference will reach out widely to the digital forensics and related communities to solicit applications from a wide range of institutions, disciplines, and backgrounds. Criteria for selection include first-time attendance, participation in poster sessions, availability of travel funding, and students' ability to benefit from and enrich the conference. Through these efforts, the award will support digital forensics workforce development of value to national security.

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.

Award Number: 2510008
Principal Investigator: Irfan Ahmed
Funds Obligated: $12,000
State: VA