Call for Faculty Participation- Spring-Summer 2023.

The Data Science Institute is calling for faculty submissions of research projects for the Spring and Summer 2023 sessions of the Data Science Institute (DSI) Scholars Program. The goal of the DSI Scholars Program is to engage undergraduate and master students to work with Columbia faculty, through the creation of data science research internships. Last year, we worked with over 30 projects and received more than 250 unique applications from Columbia Students. The program’s unique enrichment activities foster a learning and collaborative community in data science at Columbia. Apply here.

  • Funding support: For selected projects, the DSI will provide matching funds of up to $2,500 per project for internship-supporting stipends. Approximately 10 such stipend funds will be awarded. This fund is expected to be a fraction of a full stipend that is appropriate for the time and effort required by the research project. The DSI Scholars program recommends that the PI/lab engage DSI scholars approximately 8 hours a week during the academic semester and consider a full-time or part-time research internship during summer. Allocation of funds will be made via a first-come-first-serve need-based process, with efforts to balance allocation across disciplines, to prioritize new PIs/projects and new students, and support novel interdisciplinary research. We encourage and strive to support faculty who are looking for new students to include in their projects to support their specific data needs.

  • Administrative support: The DSI will collect faculty-submitted internship positions and create an umbrella application page to solicit student applications. The collected applications for each position will be compiled and sent to the hosting faculty/center/lab for review. The faculty/center/lab will then review, identify and notify the Scholars for their own projects. Funded projects will receive additional support through the coordination of stipends with Student Financial services.

Questions? See our PI FAQ! A video recording from a fall online information session can be found here, and slides from the same event can be found here. You can also contact us at dsi-scholars@columbia.edu.

The Data Science Institute encourages women and underrepresented minorities to apply to this program.

Application to participate: Faculty/Research Centers/Research Labs who are interested in participating in this program as internship hosts should complete this application form. The application deadline is February 9th, 2023. faculty will be notified about decisions on selected projects and the allocation of funds by February 11th, 2022.

Key dates:

  • February 9th, 2023
    • [Faculty -> DSI] Faculty/Center/Lab scholars internship host application due.
  • February 11-13th, 2023
    • [DSI -> Faculty] DSI Scholars funding decisions will be sent to faculty.
  • February 17th, 2022
    • [DSI -> Students] Program announcement will be sent to students and the application website goes live.
  • March 10th, 2022
    • [Students -> DSI] Student applications due.
  • March 12th, 2022
    • [DSI -> Faculty] Applications shared with faculty/center/lab.
  • March 13th-April 1st, 2022
    • [Faculty -> Students] Student interviews and selection.
    • [Faculty -> Student] Faculty sends an email offer of the internship to the selected student(s).
    • [Faculty -> DSI] Name/uni/email of the selected Scholar(s) due to DSI.
  • April 10th, 2022
    • [Faculty -> DSI] Stipend processing information on selected Scholars due to DSI for inclusion in the Spring

Please email questions to dsi-scholars@columbia.edu, see our PI FAQ, or review the info session material (video; slides).