Moore/Sloan Data Science Postdoctoral Fellowships

The University of Washington eScience Institute announces the competition for the 2014 Moore/Sloan Data Science Postdoctoral Fellowships. We seek outstanding interdisciplinary researchers with expertise in the methods of data science and in a physical, life, or social science.

The fellowships are part of a multi-year partnership between the University of Washington, University of California at Berkeley, and New York University and funded jointly by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The program recognizes that rapid advances in our ability to acquire and generate data are transforming all fields of discovery from “data-poor” to “data-rich” and a significant bottleneck to discovery is our ability to perform inference over heterogeneous, noisy, and often massive datasets.

Up to 4 of Moore/Sloan Data Science Fellowships will be awarded in 2014. Fellows are provided with full annual salary support of approximately $65,000, for two years, potentially renewable for a third year. Fellows are also awarded a research stipend of$25,000 over the total period of the appointment for expenses related to the fellowship. These funds can be used for travel to conferences, equipment and software, undergraduate (and potentially graduate) research assistants, and other research costs.

To apply, each candidate should identify two UW faculty, perhaps drawing from the list of eScience Affiliate Faculty, for dual mentorship — one in a methodology area (computer science, statistics, applied math, information sciences, or human centered design and engineering), and the other in a domain science (life, physical, or social). The candidate will submit a single application jointly with these two faculty mentors.

For complete details and instructions about how to apply, please see:
http://escience.washington.edu/what-we-do/2014-mooresloan-data-science-postdoctoral-fellowships.