The Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme, of which Reuben has already hosted around 25 Associate Research fellows from, will be expanded at the University of Oxford through a new initiative supporting early career faculty at African and Indian universities.
The new Oxford Schmidt Africa-India AI in Science Faculty Fellowship (AI2-Ox SFF) Programme, developed in partnership with the Africa Oxford Initiative (AfOx), the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development (OICSD) and four Oxford colleges (Linacre, Mansfield, Somerville and Reuben), will fund 18 faculty research fellows over the next five years, starting in 2025.
Professor Ben Lambert, Programme Director for the Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowships at Oxford at Official Fellow at Reuben said,
We are excited about the expansion of our relationship with Schmidt Sciences whose new generous funding allows us to welcome AI in Science Faculty Fellows from partner institutes in Africa and India to Oxford. By providing these early career Fellows with training in AI and professional skills and buying them out of their teaching duties at home institutions, this will allow them to develop their professional networks and their research programmes to flourish.
More details on this can be found here.
