Three Fellows Selected for 2024 Stanford Research Computing Fellowship

The Stanford Research Computing (SRC) Fellowship provides Humanities and Social Sciences graduate students the chance to conduct digital research in a high-performance computing environment during the Summer Quarter. This year, three fellows are participating in the program. 

In addition to a $5,000 stipend, this fellowship enables awardees to expand their technological skills. Whether fellows pursue a career in academia or industry, tools developed through this fellowship elevate their research capabilities and position them as competitive candidates in the job market.

This year’s fellows

Akhila Kovvuri

This summer, Akhila Kovvuri, a PhD candidate in economics, is delving into the “unintended consequences of industrial and growth policy on generating inequality in access to work, reducing employment opportunities to women” in India. By analyzing village-level population census data and firm-level economic census data, Kovvuri's project aims to shed light on the impact of industrial policies on employment opportunities for women in the region.

David Broska

A PhD candidate in sociology, David Broksa is investigating the extreme inequality in the visual arts market, where few artists gain substantial rewards while the majority struggle to sustain full-time careers. Broska is utilizing data from 131,000 exhibitions across 13,500 venues and 18,500 artists over 50 years to explore how networks of exhibitions influence artistic careers and create clusters of meaning.

Salma Elkhaoudi

Salma Elkhaoudi, PhD candidate in anthropology, is examining the relationship between language, identity, and technology in developing Arabic-trained AI in the Arab world. Using digital ethnographic methods, she’s exploring how technological advancement and concerns about language preservation and Arab identity, influence Arabic Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies. 

The fellows’ projects represent an expansion of the types of projects conducted with SRC resources, which have traditionally attracted researchers in hard sciences like genetics, physics, and engineering. 

“With the fellowship program,” according to program developer Brad Rittenhouse, “we not only help students develop high-performance computing skills, we also get the opportunity to interact with and encourage a much broader spectrum of research on our clusters.”

More about Stanford Research Computing

Research Computing, a collaborative initiative of the Dean of Research and University IT, is a world-class team dedicated to advancing computational and data-intensive research across Stanford. In addition to providing their summer fellowship, Research Computing offers training and learning opportunities on high-end computing tools and technologies and consultation services to identify the best solutions for researchers' computing and analytics needs.