UFII Fellowships

With the UFII Fellowship Programs, the Informatics Institute aims to develop and nurture integrative informatics, data science, machine learning, AI research and educational studies. Both programs serve as share-of-cost awards in order to serve as supplemental support for a post-doctoral associate and/or graduate student already selected and/or employed by a college, department or mentoring PI at the University of Florida.

Graduate Students

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Eligibility Requirements:

Nominator must meet the UF PI eligibility requirements as they will be listed as the PI of the award
Must be interdisciplinary (at least two departments/units/colleges)
Graduate student must be currently enrolled in a Doctoral program
Graduate student must be currently employed by their home department/college/or mentoring PI
Graduate student must be nominated by their doctoral program
Student’s research must meet at least one of the thematic areas listed below
Maximum of 3 nominations allowed per graduate program

Thematic Areas:

Core Data Science and Informatics Techniques and Technologies
Biomedical and Life Science Informatics and Big Data Analytics
Informatics and Big Data Analytics for Engineered Systems and the Physical Sciences
Informatics and Big Data Analytics in Social Science, Humanities and Education
Informatics and Big Data Analytics in Agricultural Science

Funding Amount: up to $45,000

Duration: 2 years

Application Deadline: January 25, 2021

Post-Doctoral

Review the guidelines.

Eligibility Requirements:

Mentor must meet the UF PI eligibility requirements as they will be listed as the PI of the award
Must be interdisciplinary (at least two departments/units/colleges)
Post-Doctoral dissertation research must meet at least one of the thematic areas listed below
Post-Doctoral candidate must be currently employed in department/college/unit/or by mentoring PI

Thematic Areas:

Core Data Science and Informatics Techniques and Technologies
Biomedical and Life Science Informatics and Big Data Analytics
Informatics and Big Data Analytics for Engineered Systems and the Physical Sciences
Informatics and Big Data Analytics in Social Science, Humanities and Education
Informatics and Big Data Analytics in Agricultural Science

Funding Amount: up to $50,000

Duration: 1 year

Next Deadline: January 25, 2021

UFII Fellowships