The African Studies Center (ASC) and the Michigan Institute for Data & AI in Society (MIDAS) have partnered to support seven postdoctoral researchers from Africa who apply AI methodologies to key scientific and engineering challenges. This two-year fellowship program aims to advance scientific breakthroughs through AI, foster the next generation of global science leaders, and expand AI’s role within the U-M research community.
The program aims to:
- Enable the substantive use of AI for breakthroughs in science and engineering and cultivate global science leaders;
- Seeks to catalyze creative and transformative applications of AI;
- Enable a broader U-M research community to adopt AI;
- Provide outstanding training to program fellows;
- Collaborate with other Schmidt Sciences sites to maximize the impact of the program.
This partnership extends ASC’s University of Michigan African Presidential Scholars (UMAPS) program by earmarking funding for African researchers working towards significant advances in the application of AI in science domains.
For more details, visit the MIDAS program page: MIDAS African Faculty Fellows.
