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I'm MD Azizul Hakim, from Bangladesh. My paper on test-time reasoning in LLMs got accepted as a poster at NeurIPS 2026, and I'm the only author. NeurIPS is in Sydney this December. I just finished a 4-year diploma which is equivalent to HSC and haven't started my bachelor's yet. I don't have the money to get there, so I'm asking for help with the trip.
Paper: https://neurips.cc/virtual/2026/loc/sydney/poster/150721
I want to present my poster in person and talk with people who work on reasoning models. I completed this paper alone, with no lab or supervisor, and I tested 50 models on 6 benchmarks (over 67,000 evaluations). I'm also applying for fully funded bachelor's programs abroad, and meeting researchers in Sydney would help me a lot with that.
Total cost would required 3800$.
Minimum required 2500 (flight ticker + accomodation)
Total cost: $3,800
Minimum required: $2,500 (flight + accommodation)
Breakdown:
NeurIPS registration (conference sessions and tutorials): $550
Accommodation: $1,000
Round-trip flight, Dhaka to Sydney: $1,500
Meals: $400
Local transportation: $250
Poster printing: $100
Total: $3,800
Other funding: QRT and Citadel both rejected my applications. I have applied for NeurIPS financial assistance. As this is my accepted paper, and I am an early-career, sole author, they may give me complimentary registration. If they do, I will reduce my request by $550.
It's just me. Besides the NeurIPS paper, I have a Scientific Reports paper, three IEEE conference papers, and three arXiv preprints. I'm also a Kaggle Notebooks Master.
My website is https://logicsame.github.io/md-hakim.github.io/ and my Google Scholar is https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jVyIovcAAAAJ
If I can't raise the money, I can't go. The paper stays in the proceedings, but NeurIPS can remove papers when no author presents in person, so I could lose it. Other grants may not come through in time, or my visa could be delayed.
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