Institute for Research in the Social Sciences
IRiSS Awards First Computational Social Science Fellowships
The Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS) is pleased to announce the awardees of Stanford’s first competition for graduate student Fellowships in Computational Social Science. The three winners are Henning Piezunka (Management Science and Engineering), Bertrand Schneider, (School of Education and Computer Science) and Rebecca Weiss (Communication).
The fellowship program is a central part of IRiSS’ initiative to develop high quality research in the area of computational social science. This initiative is led by the founding director of Computational Social Science at Stanford, Daniel McFarland. The initiative entails a certificate program, summer workshop, bi-annual conference, and now a student fellowship program. The student fellowships provide graduate students with salary and tuition support, and are intended to promote interdisciplinary research efforts using computational techniques to analyze big data and address important social problems. Students were required to identify faculty advisors from two or more departments.
The three funded research projects are:
“Benevolent Rejection,” Henning Piezunka
Chris Thomsen, IRiSS executive director, says the graduate students will be formally recognized at the next Stanford Computational Social Science conference to be held on January 11, 2013.
