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Current Openings
Associate Director, Massive Data Institute
The Associate Director will support the MDI mission focused on using interdisciplinary teams and methods and modern computing power to tackle societal scale issues and impact public policy in ways that improve people’s lives through responsible evidence-based research and provide experiential learning opportunities to help train the next generation of scholars and practitioners. The Associate Director will report to the Faculty Director.
Deadline: July 2, 2026
Postdoctoral Fellow Opportunity
The Massive Data Institute (MDI) and the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM) would like to engage a postdoctoral fellow with interests in addressing pressing challenges at the intersection of forced migration and big data, and/or with data analytic skills and experience using large complex data sets, including social media data.
Priority Deadline: February 28, 2026
Current GU Student Opportunities
MDI Scholars Summer 2026
We are pleased to announce a call for applications for the Summer 2026 cohort of the MDI Scholars Program. The Summer 2026 Cohort will work with researchers and practitioners to help advance knowledge on areas including forced migration, civil justice, misinformation, education, politics and polarization, health analytics, AI, and other fields. MDI Scholars will not only gain valuable research skills, but they will also engage in research that will help shape future research at the intersection of public policy, data science, and other disciplines. Students will be expected to document their research in an MDI Research Poster as part of the Summer Research Showcase.
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