Subject:
Data
Science for Social Good Summer Fellowship
Date:
December
9, 2013 3:00:10 PM EST
Hi,
I'm running the Eric & Wendy Schmidt "Data
Science for Social Good" Summer Fellowship again
this year at the University of Chicago and need
help in recruiting strong students (grad
students or junior/senior undergrads with
CS, Machine Learning, and/or Stats background).
The goal is to get up to 50 students in Chicago
this summer and have them work on high-impact
social problems (in education, healthcare,
energy, transportation, crime, etc.) using
Machine Learning, Data Mining, and other related
buzzwords. The students will work with full-time
mentors from academia and industry. The
fellowships are paid competitively and we will
provide housing as well.
More details are at http://dssg.uchicago.edu.
Applications for the fellowship are due February
1, 2014.
If you have (or know of) strong
CS/Stats/Econometrics/Applied Math/Policy
students who have an interest in making an
impact by working on high-impact social problems
using machine learning/data mining/stats, please
forward this to them.
Thanks,
Rayid
P.S. We’re also looking
for full-time mentors (strong technical folks
with real-world experience who want to spend
the summer in Chicago working with a team of
fellows).
Rayid Ghani
Computation Institute
& Harris School of Public Policy
University of Chicago