Deadline: 8 March 2015
The Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) is calling applications for its Data Science Fellow Program. BIDS data science fellows are postdoctoral scholars, graduate student researchers, or staff with excellent credentials in their fields as well as strong interests in advancing data-analysis approaches with a community of like-minded individuals from across campus.
Eligibility and Funding
We seek data science fellow applicants in three categories:
- Joint campus appointment – These positions are based on a joint funding model between BIDS and either a UC Berkeley or Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL) department or research center/institute in each applicant’s domain. Each joint campus data science fellow position will be funded by BIDS at 50% of existing salary (and benefits). The 50% funding provided by BIDS will be administered in a flexible fashion and averaged over the entire two-year period (i.e., could translate into one year of salary provided by BIDS and one year by the matching source or a 50/50-split arrangement over the course of the two years).
- Graduate student researcher appointment – Advanced graduate students currently enrolled at UC Berkeley are eligible to apply to become a BIDS data science fellow as a graduate student researcher (GSR). In particular, we welcome applications from individuals whose departments do not typically work with postdoctoral researchers. We will consider shared-expense graduate students and fully funded graduate students.
- Full-time postdoctoral researcher appointment – A small number of full-time postdoctoral positions will be available in addition to joint campus appointments. The recruitment process for full-time postdoctoral researchers will be launched in early March 2015.
Applications are currently limited to individuals with backgrounds and research interests in the social, physical, and life sciences and/or statistics, applied math, and computer science. Eligibility will be determined by the applicants’ research focus, not their home department.
How to Apply
Interested applicants will have to submit a single-page letter of intent and a CV based on the solicitation.
For more information, visit BIDS.
