Workshops for PhD and Post-doc Researchers at Frontier Development Lab in the USA

Frontier Development Lab (FDL) is calling researchers from around the world to a workshop opportunity that takes place over eight weeks from mid-June to mid-August and could be conducted in in-person or virtual events, depending on COVID-19 conditions. During the research sprint, teams work intensively on their projects and are expected to be present and active for the full duration. There may also be additional social activities and field trips. This team-focused approach enables an expertise chain that can tackle problem definition, data source aggregation, workflow composition, creation of inference models, and deployment in an efficient manner.

If you join this workshop, you will have the chance to:

• A stipend.
• On-location accommodation and transport, for the eight-week duration (in-person setting).
• Getting a fresh perspective and strong relationships and friendships. 
• Work shoulder-to-shoulder with world-class experts from the private sector, NASA, DOE, and ESA. 
• Be part of the team: Working closely together during the intense eight-week research sprints, teams have achieved outputs that might otherwise have taken years.
• Build best practices in AI development in the space sector.
• Connect with world-class AI researchers and leaders in tech.
• Help humanity: There is huge potential to make a difference with FDL.

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You should follow the following criteria: 

• A PhD or post-doc level researcher in AI, data science, or space sciences. 
• You are required to be full-time committed throughout the duration of the research sprint.
• You should nominate yourself as one of four categories:
• ML/AI/ Data Scientist
• Space Scientist
• Hybrid - Space Science Lead
• Hybrid - ML Lead
• Successful candidates are matched to form small (four-person) multi-disciplinary, complementary teams for the research sprints. 
• FDL carefully curates teams from all the researchers that make it through to the final selection pool balancing deep subject expertise, technical capacity and knowledge, and abilities to work across disciplines.

Please note: For the NASA and DOE FDL challenges, applicants can be US citizens, lawful permanent residents, or foreign nationals eligible for a temporary student visa (e.g. J1 Visa). 

Workshop Schedule:

• Week 1: Introduce AI methods and the basics to the space science team members, ensuring everyone has a firm basis for the following weeks.
• The next step: Working in teams of four to get hands-on researching the challenge area and formulating solutions for the challenge question. 
• The second half of the sprint: Is used for prototyping, testing, perfecting your solution, and getting ready to present it.  
• At the end of the research sprint: Teams will present their work to leading scientists, researchers, and industry experts from NASA, the DOE, ESA, and the Partners.  

About Frontier Development Lab (FDL):

FDL is a public-private partnership with NASA and the Department of Energy (DOE) in the USA and ESA in Europe. It brings together some of the brightest minds from space science, AI, and the commercial sector. FDL applies AI technologies to science to push the frontiers of research and develop new tools to help solve some of the biggest challenges that humanity faces. These range from the effects of climate change to predicting space weather, from improving disaster response to identifying meteorites that could hold the key to the history of the universe.

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