DCADS Research

DCADS Research Fellowships

The Darden-Data Science Collaboratory for Applied Data Science (DCADS) is seeking proposals for student-centric, multidisciplinary, research fellowships focused on topics at the intersection of business and data science. Proposed projects may focus on any topic, however, preference will be given to those that address topics of interest.

For 2023, these include:

• Bias and Misinformation: exploring algorithms and data-intensive business practices that increase equity and promote truthfulness in business and in society.
   
• Analytical Leadership: managing and leading analytical individuals, high-performing teams, and distinctive organizations in the face of an explosion of data and the near ubiquity of technologies that enable leaders to use or misuse it.
   
• Healthy Choices: understanding and influencing consumer and healthcare professional behavior through interventions, experiments, and analysis using data and technology, with the objective of improving health and better managing care.

All University of Virginia faculty are eligible to submit proposals and serve as primary investigators, with preference given to those affiliated with the Darden School of Business or School of Data Science. Practitioners or outside experts may serve as co-investigators, and project teams must include student researchers currently at the University or newly hired for these roles.

The fellowships will cover faculty and student-centric research activities for a period of 12-24 months and up to a total of $100,000. Funding restrictions apply with a primary focus on graduate assistantship and/or postdoctoral fellow funding. Proposed projects must produce academic-quality output that is suitable for dissemination and useful in pursuit of follow-on research.

Applications are due Oct. 15, 2023 and DCADS Fellowship recipients will be announced in late Fall 2023.

Several information sessions will be scheduled for interested individuals. See the 2023 DCADS Fellowship website for details. To request an individual information session, please contact dcads@virginia.edu.

Additional information about the 2023 DCADS Fellowship program, including information session dates, key fellowship details, topic of interest examples, and links for proposal submission, is available here.