The Insight Data Science Fellows Program is a postdoctoral training fellowship that helps quantitative PhDs transition to careers in data science and analytics. Since 2012, Insight has helped over 750 Insight Fellows start their careers as data scientists and data engineers at over 200 companies across the US. Today we are excited to announce the expansion of our Insight Data Science Fellows Program to the city of Boston. This will be our second program in Boston, following the success of our Health Data Fellows Program.

Insight Fellows in Boston

Insight started its Boston journey in 2015 with the first and only Fellowship program dedicated to a data science career in healthcare. After running four successful sessions of the Insight Health Data Fellows Program, we now have an active network of alumni in the Boston area. As the program has matured, we have also seen an increasing demand for data scientists in other industry areas encompassing technology, ecommerce, consulting, and retail, to name a few. To meet this demand, we have opened applications for the Insight Data Science Fellows Program in Boston this June, alongside our existing Boston-based Health Data Program. With this expansion, the Insight Data Science Fellows program is now active in 4 locations: Silicon Valley, New York, Boston and our Remote program for roles in other US cities.

Seeing the emergence and blossoming of data science at the front row, we are thrilled to witness Insight Fellows’ success and eager to bring our experience to Boston. Many Fellows are leading teams at top companies including Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit, Netflix, New York Times, Razorfish, BitSight, Nielsen and NBC. On the technical side, Insight Fellows are among the driving force of cutting-edge data technologies, pushing the limits possible in building data products and doing advanced business and product analytics.

During the program, Insight Fellows meet with leading data teams on a daily basis, learning directly from them about their cutting-edge work. In Boston, data scientists from Amazon, Wayfair, Akamai, Thomson Reuters, Cinch Financial, McKinsey, Tamr, BitSight and Schireson will be actively mentoring Fellows and hiring from the program. While learning about the landscape of data science in Boston, Fellows will be doing data science work every day at Insight that sharpens their skills and showcases the depth of their experience. The project-based education model at Insight fosters collaborative learning among Fellows representing a variety of quantitative fields including graduate students and postdocs from physics, mathematics, engineering, computational biology, psychology, and social sciences. Given the success of our Health Data program in Boston there will be many opportunities for Fellows to get to know each other and collaborate between the two programs.

We are looking forward to helping Insight Fellows bridge the gap between academia and data science teams in the Greater Boston Area. To learn more about about the Insight Data Science Fellows Program visit our website and read our white paper.

Applications are now open in Boston for both Data Science and Health Data starting in June 2017. For more information about the Data Science Program and to apply, visit http://insightdatascience.com.