Resources for New Researchers

List of grants+fellowship awards (non-exhaustive)

Assistant Professors

• DMS statistics, NSF (annual, typically in December)

• Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics, NSF (bi-annual, typically January and August)

• CISE CCF Algorithmic Foundations, NSF (annual, typically in October)

• CISE IIS Robust Intelligence, NSF (annual, typically in October)

• ACED: accelerating computing-enabled scientific discovery, NSF (annual, typically in January)

• ONR Young Investigative Program, Office of Naval Research (annual, typically in April)

• AOFSR Young Investigative Program, Office of Air Force Research (annual, typically in April)

• Sloan Research Fellowship 

• NSF Career Award, (annual, typically in July)

• Faculty awards from Google, Meta, Amazon, Adobe

PhD students & Postdocs

• NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship, NSF (annual, typically in October)

• PhD student awards from Google, Meta, Jane Street

Free computing resources offered by NSF

• The National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR)

• ACCESS

Posting for job positions

• University of Florida

• Math Jobs

• University of Washington

• Amstat

General advice for new researchers

• by Aaditya Ramdas:  for PhD students,  for Assistant Professors

• by Eugene Katsevich: for PhD students

• by Jeff Leek: reviewing, reading papers, data sharing

• IMS New Researchers' Survival Guide

Advice on presentations and writing

• great advice on scientific writing

• by Trevor Campbell: great advice on presentations

Teaching resources

• CAUSE and JEDI-CAUSE:  online repository for statistical education resources, containing classroom activities, dataset examples, pedagogical/professional development materials, and more

• eCOTS and iCOTS conferences on teach: You can watch recorded keynotes to learn about effective pedagogy

• Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education: You may want to read statistics education research to get ideas about better teaching methods.

List of IMS awards for new researchers

• IMS Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award

• IMS Lawrence D. Brown Ph.D. Student Award

• IMS New Researcher Travel Award

• IMS Thelma and Marvin Zelen Emerging Women Leaders in Data Science Award

• IMS Tweedie New Researcher Award

• Peter Gavin Hall IMS Early Career Prize