Postdoc Opportunities for CS PhD students

Note: this is an old webpage and many links no longer work. I will update it when I have time. Ordered by (predicted) initial deadline. (See faculty-fellowships.html for a listing of opportunities for CS faculty.)

Requires University Nomination

Schmidt Science Fellows. This requires the department to nominate up to 2 candidates, and then at most 9 candidates are selected for the University of Illinois at Ubana-Champaign. Email from the University says: "Now in its third year, the Schmidt Science Fellows Program offers an exceptional one-year postdoctoral research and professional development experience for students in the natural sciences, engineering, mathematics, and computing-oriented disciplines. Targeting students who are near completion of their PhDs, the program offers training in fields outside of the student's current area of expertise and allows students to engage with world renowned leaders in science, technology, business, and government." The stipend is $100K.

Other resources

CS Department Wiki for postdoctoral awards (click on "External Awards" and then on "Post-doctoral Opportunities"): https://wiki.illinois.edu/wiki/display/studentawards
The Illinois Graduate College Fellowship Finder website: https://app.grad.illinois.edu/fellowship/?action=main.search&grp1=11&grp3=18&grp0=28&q=,
MIT's webpage for postdoctoral fellowships. https://pda.mit.edu/resources/fellowships.
National Academies website for fellowships: http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/Fellowships/PGA_046301, http://www.nationalacademies.org/grantprograms/, and http://sites.nationalacademies.org/pga/fellowships/?_ga=2.233488542.1287088851.1565966403-1989997136.1564065899

Direct submissions allowed

Harvard Society of Fellows. Webpage: https://socfell.fas.harvard.edu/nomination-procedure. Comments: This is a competitive fellowship, with nomination letter required by the faculty advisor in August of the year preceding the fellowship, sent by regular mail (not email, not online). This is a three-year fellowship, and 12 are appointed (across all fields) each year. The stipend for 2019-2020 is $83,000. Deadline: August 9, 2019.
Burrows-Welcome Fund. Website: http://www.bwfund.org/grant-programs/interfaces-science/career-awards-scientific-interface. Quoting from the website: "BWF's Career Awards at the Scientific Interface (CASI) provide $500,000 over five years to bridge advanced postdoctoral training and the first three years of faculty service. These awards are open to U.S. and Canadian citizens, permanent residents, and temporary residents. These grants are intended to foster the early career development of researchers who have transitioned or are transitioning from undergraduate and/or graduate work in the physical/mathematical/computational sciences or engineering into postdoctoral work in the biological sciences, and who are dedicated to pursuing a career in academic research. Scientific advances such as genomics, quantitative structural biology, imaging techniques, and modeling of complex systems have created opportunities for exciting research careers at the interface between the physical/computational sciences and the biological sciences. Tackling key problems in biology will require scientists trained in areas such as chemistry, physics, applied mathematics, computer science, and engineering." Deadline: September 4, 2019 (pre-proposal).
Miller Research Fellowship at UC Berkeley. Webpage: http://miller.berkeley.edu/fellowship. Comments: This is a competitive fellowship for basic science. A nomination letter is required by the faculty advisor in September (online nomination). It also requires a host at UC Berkeley be identified. The PhD must be confirmed prior to August 31, 2020. These are three-year fellowships, with annual stipends of $65,000 (and $10,000 in research funds). Three letters are required: one by the nominator and two others, one of whom must be a UC Berkeley faculty host. Deadline September 10, 2019.
University of Michigan Society of Fellows. http://societyoffellows.umich.edu/the-fellowship/application-guidelines/, This is a three-year fellowship. Stipend: $60K, and includes teaching requirement (two terms over the three-year period). Deadline September 24, 2019.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories postdoctoral positions. Website: https://fellowship.llnl.gov. Deadline: October 1.
University of Colorado Boulder Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program have a different online application submission deadline of October 15. For more information, please go to: this website. Deadline: October 15.
Sidney Fernbach Postdoctoral Fellow in the Computing Sciences (at LLNL). Webpage: http://careers-int-llnl.ttcportals.com/jobs/4410063-fernbach-postdoctoral-fellow. See also https://computing.llnl.gov/fernbach for more about the fellowship. One year position. Deadline: October 22, 2019.
Complexity Post-Doc at Sante Fe Institute. Webpage: https://apply-sfi.smapply.org/prog/complexityfellowship. Comments: This is a 3-year fellowship, with 14 postdoctoral fellowships awarded each year. To quote from the webpage, "The ASU-SFI partnership aims to deepen theoretical understanding of the interconnections between biological systems, like ecosystems, and social systems, like human cities. Sustainability is an area of particular focus, as are the dynamics of technical innovation in cities and evolutionary innovation in biology. As these fellows pursue fundamental understanding of how organisms, ecosystems, and human societies grow and innovate, they generate insights that can applied to complex challenges in a warming, urbanizing world." Deadline: October 27, 2019.
Univ of California President's Initiative. Webpage: https://ppfp.ucop.edu/info/fellowship-recipients/hiring-incentive.html. Comments: The online application covers all the UC campuses (all of which host the President's Postdoctoral Fellowships). Some of these also support the Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. The same online application can be used for the National Labs that are associated with the University of California. Some of these fellowsips are also associated with faculty hiring initiatives. Deadline Nov 1, 2019
University of British Columbia (Canada), Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship. https://www.postdocs.ubc.ca/award/killam-postdoctoral-research-fellowship. One to two year fellowship for postdocs at UBC. Stipend: annual $50,000 (Canadian), plus travel research allowance of $4K. Deadline: November 8, 2019.
John von Neumann Fellowship at Sandia National Labs. Webpage: https://www.sandia.gov/careers/students_postdocs/fellowships/johnvonneumann_fellowship.html. Deadline: November 26 (This was for 2019; check with them to see if the 2020 competition will happen.)
NIH-NRSA (F32), Individual Postdoctoral Fellowships. Webpage: Deadline through the UIUC OSP, due one week before NIH deadline. The University of Illinois will hold an informational meeting in December, 2019. Stipend $43,692-$57,504. https://researchtraining.nih.gov/programs/fellowships/F32. Deadline: approximately Dec 1, 2019.
Data Science Institute (DSI) at Columbia University. Deadline December 1, 2019.
Linus Pauling Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship at PNNL (Pacific Northwestern National Laboratories). Webpage: https://www.pnnl.gov/pauling. Comments: Deadline December 1, 2019.
Harvard Data Science postdoctoral program, submission deadline December 2, 2019.
Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellowships at Purdue Engineering. Webpage: https://engineering.purdue.edu/Engr/Research/GilbrethFellowships. Comments: Deadline December 6, 2019
UCSD Data Science Postdoctoral Fellowship. Webpage: http://qi.ucsd.edu/dsfellows. Deadline: January 1st, 2020
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Hanna H. Gray Fellows program. https://www.hhmi.org/programs/hanna-h-gray-fellows-program. Deadline: early January
NRC Research Associateship Programs http://sites.nationalacademies.org/pga/rap/. From their webpage: "The NRC Research Associateship Programs (RAP) promote excellence in scientific and technological research conducted by the U.S. government through the administration of programs offering graduate, postdoctoral, and senior level research opportunities at sponsoring federal laboratories and affiliated institutions." Several deadlines throughout the year (approximately once every 3 months), beginning with February 1.
Beckman Post-doctoral Fellowship at UIUC. Webpage: https://beckman.illinois.edu/research/fellows-and-awards/postdoctoral/app-instructions. Comments: Research budget of $25K. Deadline: March 2020.
I-School at UC Berkeley, data science postdocs. https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/about/ischooljobs/datascipostdoc, These postdoctoral positions require teaching for an online MS program ("Postdocs are expected to teach up to 8 small sections per year as a lecturer."), and salaries in the range of $60K-$65K. Deadline: April 7, 2020.

Unknown deadlines

Data Science Centers with postdocs:
- Boston University DSI
- Duke iiD
- MIT IDSS
- NYU CDS
- Northwestern University DSI
- UC Berkeley BIDS
- Univ Massachusetts CDS
- U Michigan MIDAS
- Univ Washington eSCIENCE - no longer offering postdoctoral fellowships (?)
IBM - Herman Goldstine Postdoctoral Fellowships in Mathematical & Computer Sciences. Webpage: http://www.research.ibm.com/goldstine/. This is a one-year fellowship, renewable for one year, and only two awardees per year. The stipend $130,000-$150,000.