Fellowship Programs

Computational Social Science Training Program (CSSTP)

The UC Berkeley Computational Social Science Training Program (CSSTP) trains predoctoral students representing a variety of degree programs and expertise areas in the social sciences, including demography, public health, public policy, social epidemiology, social welfare, and sociology.

Launched in 2020 with a five-year, $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Behavioral and Social...

Innovate For Health

The Innovate For Healthinitiative (I4H) was launched in June 2019 as a collaboration between BIDS at UC Berkeley, the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute (BCHSI) at UCSF, and Janssen Research & Development, LLC (part of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson), who together launched the Data Science Health Innovation Fellowship Program to recruit data scientists for high-impact, data-driven healthcare research. The fellowship provides successful applicants with 2 years of financial support to...

Data Science Fellowship Program

The BIDS Data Science Fellowship Program is a 2-year research training program open to postdocs (and in some cases, late-stage graduate students) at UC Berkeley, LBNL or UCSF, who are dedicated to advancing data science and undertaking innovative, cross-disciplinary data-intensive research. Applicants representing diverse and varied research interests are encouraged to apply. Successful applicants will be offered a two-year fellowship appointment at BIDS beginning in the Fall 2020 semester. See a list of current BIDS Data Science Fellows in our online directory.

The...

Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System Training Program (CRELS)

The UC Berkeley Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System Training Program (CRELS) trains doctoral students representing a variety of degree programs and expertise areas in the social sciences, computer science and statistics.

Launched in 2023 with a $3-million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), this five-year multidisciplinary training program in data science and social science disciplines fosters a new computational social science research community and leads the integration of research on the social implications of AI. CRELS is...