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Become a DataLab Affiliate
DataLab’s Affiliates program fosters interdisciplinary connections and provides unique opportunities for graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, faculty, and other UC Davis researchers with interests and expertise in data science.
Expectations and Benefits
DataLab Affiliates develop and/or lead activities that enrich the UC Davis community. Affiliates have access to additional resources, trainings, networking events, hackathons, and mentorship and teaching opportunities.
Active engagement is key! You’ll get to learn and share new things, get ideas for your research and teaching, develop new projects, find new information and collaborators, and network across the university. Becoming an Affiliate is a great way to connect and leverage your expertise.
Eligibility and How to Apply
Qualifications
Any graduate student or postdoc affiliated with UC Davis can apply.
Nomination
Candidates may self-nominate or be nominated by a current DataLab faculty member. Students and postdocs are welcome and encouraged to attend seminars, workshops and tutorials prior to applying for membership. Nominations should be directed to datalab@ucdavis.edu.
Participation
This interdisciplinary interaction is valuable and rare, and requires investing the time to participate. Affiliates are expected to:
- Attend the annual DataLab networking event.
- Attend weekly social and/or coworking sessions, as schedules allow.
- Participate in the annual Instructor Training for Data Science.
- Contribute as a helper for at least one DataLab workshop per quarter.
- Actively engage in a DataLab sponsored Community of Practice (aka Research and Learning Cluster), and/or develop and implement a data science community project.
- Serve as a data science / research computing liaison in their home department or graduate group.
Qualifications
UC Davis faculty may join DataLab if:
- Their research and/or teaching is within the broad field of data science, and/or benefits from the application of existing, or development of new, data science tools and methodology.
- Their scientific contributions are of obvious merit and commensurate with those of current members.
- They have contributed to, or can be expected to contribute to, DataLab’s research, training, community building and/or other strategic activities in data science at UC Davis. Project partners are also candidates for Affiliate membership.
Nomination
Candidates may self-nominate or be nominated by a current DataLab faculty member. Nominations are accepted year round and can be completed using this form:
We encourage participation by Professional Researchers, Project Scientists, Research Specialists, Academic Coordinators, and other non-faculty professionals. These individuals are often in the trenches and at the forefront of data science, and provide continuity for ongoing research projects.
Please email datalab@ucdavis.edu to get involved.