HDSI Postdoctoral Fellows Program: Proposal Deadline

Harvard Data Science Initiative Postdoctoral Fellows Program
Deadline: November 14, 2022
Award Amount: $83,232 is available in salary support per year for an initial two-year appointment. An additional $10,000 will be allocated for research and travel expenses each year. Funding is available to support relocation expenses for fellows moving to the Cambridge area. Appointments may be extended for a third year, budget and performance allowing. 

The Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI) is seeking applications from researchers whose interests are in data science, broadly construed, including researchers with a primarily methodological focus as well as researchers who advance both methodology and application. Fellows will be provided with the opportunity to pursue their research agenda in an intellectually vibrant environment with ample mentorship. HDSI is looking for independent researchers who will seek out collaborations with other fellows and with faculty across all schools of Harvard University.

The HDSI Postdoctoral Fellows Program will support outstanding researchers whose interests relate to the following themes:

1. Methodological foundations including, for example, causal inference, data systems design, deep learning, experimental design, modeling of structured data, random matrix theory, non-parametric Bayesian methods, scalable inference, statistical computation, and visualization.
2. Development of data science approaches tailored to analytical challenges in in fields that span the full intellectual breadth of Harvard’s faculties. To give some purely illustrative examples, these fields include health sciences (e.g., life and population sciences); earth systems (e.g. climate change research); society (e.g., data that can affect the experience of individuals or policy); and the economy (e.g., blockchain, labor economics, digital markets). This list is by no means exhaustive.