PerCom 2026 is happy to announce that we will again be hosting an N2Women event during the conference. N2Women is a community of researchers in the fields of networking and communications, encouraging diversity and fostering connections among under-represented women in this computing sub-field.
The N2Women event at PerCom 2026 provides an opportunity for networking as well as a panel discussion of topics aimed to openly address challenges and provide encouragement to the next generation of female researchers.
With the help of N2Women, we are looking for a young researcher to organize the event.
N2Women considers you a young researcher if you are currently a student, working as a postdoc, or in the 1st or 2nd year of your new research career. The N2Women Young Researcher Fellowship award will partially cover a young researcher’s travel cost (up to $1000) to a meeting where an N2Women event will be held (for PerCom, this will be Pisa in March 2026). In exchange, the young researcher must help organize the N2Women meeting. The benefit of doing the organization, in addition to the travel funds, is for the young researcher to connect with the organizers of the conference, who are typically leaders in the research field. We will arrange for a faculty or research member of N2Women to assist/mentor the young researcher in this task.
If you, or someone you know, are interested in applying for this fellowship, more information is available online ( http://committees.comsoc.org/n2women/ ) The application is available by clicking on the Fellowships link (https://n2women.comsoc.org/fellowships/).
The deadline for applications for PerCom 2026 is
*** February 15, 2026 ***
Acceptance notification is 1 week after the application deadline.
Support for these N2Women Young Researcher Fellowship awards has been generously provided by ACM SIGMOBILE, ACM SIGCOMM, IEEE Communications Society, and IEEE Computer Society (CS) Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC).
If you have any questions specific to N2Women at PerCom, please contact Amy Murphy ([email protected])