Sole-Author Undergraduate Paper at NeurIPS 2026: Help Me Reach Sydney

Help me travel to Sydney to present my accepted NeurIPS 2026 research paper. I need help with visa and flight costs.

Project Details

Project summary

I'm Imrankhan from india . my paper "Better Thinkers, Worse Believers: Does Self-Distillation Reduce Chain-of-Thought Faith fulness?" accepted for a poster presentation at the MuslML workshop at NeurIPS 2026. i am currently final year ug student . i got the neurips financial assistance that cover conference registration fee and the hotel fee for the 7 days . still i don't have the money for the visa fee and traval ticket fee . i am already struggle pay my collage fees also i can't pay the hostel fee so i traval 70km daliy to attend the collage so in my situation i can't afford the traval fees ,so I'm asking for help for the trip.

Paper:https://neurips.cc/virtual/2026/loc/sydney/166651

What are this project's goals? How will you achieve them?

I want to present my poster and talk to people and research i want to connection with them and want to learn lot work lot in the machine learning i really Enjoy to work on the machine learning . This presentation will help me embrace my future as an AI researcher.

How will this funding be used?

Total cost: $2,250

Minimum required: $1,650 (Flight and Visa)

Breakdown:

Australian Visa : $150

Round-trip flight (India to Sydney): $1,500

Meals*:* $400 (Approx. $55/day for 7 days)

Local transportation (Airport transfers & transit in Sydney): $200

Total: $2,250

Other funding: options like the Citadel and various Indian travel grants do not work for me. Some do not accept undergraduate students, and most of them only offer reimbursement. I cannot afford to pay that amount of money upfront because my family earns less than $5 a day. Given our financial situation, arranging that much money is not possible for me.