Incentive Centered Design

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STIET News

 In the News: Recent STIET PhD Eytan Bakshy's paper "The Role of Social Networks in Information Diffusion" is getting a lot of attention -- see Tech Crunch and Slate.

 News Note: WSU STIET faculty member, Robert Reynolds, STIET fellow Leonard Kinniard-Heether, and REU student Tracy Liu won first place in the IEEE Super Mario Competition and best student paper prize at the 2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence in Barcelona, Spain.

 Press Release -- World Wide Research Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities, edited by William H. Dutton and Paul W. Jeffreys includes contributions by STIET faculty member, Steve Jackson, and STIET fellow, Cory Knobel.

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How to Apply for a One-Year STIET Fellowship

Application Deadline:
Wednesday, May 16, 2012, 5 pm

Submit the following by email or mail to:

Karen Woollams
STIET Program
3369 North Quad, 105 S. State St.
Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-1285
(734) 615-7210
woollams@umich.edu

  • Name, address, phone, email address, and UM ID # (we will access your academic record)

  • a short (1 page) statement of interest

    Write a description of your research interests explaining in particular the connections to the STIET program and ICD. Explain how the STIET program, including coursework, the research seminar and interaction with students and faculty from other disciplines, will advance your studies and your research agenda.

  • recommendation letter from your faculty advisor

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One-Year STIET Fellowships

The University of Michigan, with support from the National Science Foundation, has created an exciting doctoral training program in a multidisciplinary incentive-centered design (ICD) approach to modern information systems. System performance depends on the strategic behavior of autonomous, self-interested humans; therefore we draw on theories of rational decision making, game-theoretic models of strategic interaction, and economic, psychological and other social science theories of motivation to form a principled grounding for system design. We apply ICD methods to, for example, the design of user-contributed open-access content in social computing environments and to distributed allocation problems facing cyberinfrastructure development.

The STIET program may a have available one-year fellowships for 2nd year doctoral students in any UM Ph.D. program who are interested in a multidisciplinary ICD approach to modern information systems. The primary research skills are drawn from a mixture of computer science, economics, information science and psychology, and applicants should have some interest in a mix of these areas, but applications may come from any unit.

$30,000 stipend, tuition, grad-care coverage, and computing and travel funds are included. This is a training fellowship, and recipients are required to complete relevant coursework and attend a weekly research seminar. As a STIET fellow, you will work toward a doctorate in one of the participating departments while you engage in cross-disciplinary learning and research endeavors.

Application Deadline: May 16, 2012. Traineeships are for U.S. citizens and permanent residents. One-year fellowships are available to 2nd year doctoral students in UM departments willing to participate in the STIET program (cost-sharing).

Benefits:

  • $30,000 stipend, full year

  • full tuition, two terms

  • grad-care coverage

  • computing funds

  • travel funds

Requirements:

  • One STIET core course outside your field (Econ 601/602: Microeconomics/ Game Theory and two advanced STIET elective courses (one outside your field, see Courses Page)

  • A weekly research seminar and bi-annual workshops (see Seminars Page)

One-year fellowships for 2nd year doctoral students at the University of Michigan. NSF IGERT grant no. 0654014; availlable to U.S. Citizens and permanent residents.