July 3 to 12, 2023 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), KDI School of Public Policy and Management, and Chungnam National University
The 2023 SICSS-Korea will be held from July 3rd to July 12th in KAIST, Daejeon. This year, the major theme of the SICSS-Korea is “Computational Social Science for Korean Public Policy.” By participating in the institute, participants will have opportunities to discuss new possibilities, opportunities, and potential challenges of computational social science in analyzing and designing public policies for Korean society. The main language of the 2023 SICSS-Korea will be Korean.
Participation is restricted to graduate students (including master and PhD students), postdoctoral researchers, junior level researchers in either public or private research institutes, and untenured faculty within 7 years of their Ph.D. If you are an undergraduate student with substantial research experience, you are encouraged to apply. We also receive applications from incoming PhD students. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and fields of study, especially those currently under-represented groups in computational social science. About fifteen participants will be invited, and participants are expected to fully attend and participate in the entire two-week program held at KAIST.
The Summer Institute aims to bring together computational social scientists across all levels of technical experience. Participants with less experience with social science research will be expected to complete additional readings in advance of the Institute, and participants with less experience coding will be supported by teaching assistants during the Summer Institute.
We evaluate applicants along a number of dimensions: 1) research and teaching in the area of computational social science 2) contributions to public goods, such as creating open source software, curating public datasets, and creating educational opportunities for others 3) likelihood to benefit from participation 4) likelihood to contribute to the educational experience of other participants 5) potential to spread computational social science to new intellectual communities and areas of research. Further, when making our evaluations, we attempt to account for an applicant’s career stage and previous educational opportunities.
We also ask applicants to upload the following documents: (i) a curriculum vitae (Either in English or Korean), (ii) a statement (maximum three pages) describing both any current research and your interest in computational social science (in English or Korean), and (iii) one writing sample (no more than 35 pages; in English or Korean). Co-authored work is acceptable for the writing sample, but if you submit co-authored work, we recommend that you include a few sentences describing the contributions of each individual author. Optionally, if you don’t have a good writing sample yet, you can submit a well-documented research project website (e.g., GitHub repositories with a README file explaining the file structure, the project goal, procedures, and key outcomes).
In order to be guaranteed full consideration, all application materials must be submitted by April 14th, 2023 (KST). The invitation emails will be sent by May 12th, 2023 (KST). All application materials must be submitted through this survey form. Applications that are not complete by the deadline may not receive full consideration. We will notify applicants solely through e-mail by sicss.korea@gmail.com, and will ask participants to confirm their participation very soon thereafter.
Inquiries can be sent to sicss.korea@gmail.com.
Lanu Kim (KAIST), Jaehyuk Park (KDI School), and June Jeon (CNU) will hold an online information session for prospective participants. You can join us via this zoom link on March 17th (Fri), 2023 11:00 AM (KST). Also, please RVSP to participate this event via this Google form by March 15th, 2023.
You can find the slide for the online information session here.
(1) Can I apply to more than one Summer Institute location?
Yes, but not at the same time. For example, you can apply to SICSS-Korea, and then if you are not accepted you can apply to one of the other locations if it has a later deadline. However, you cannot have applications under review at two locations simultaneously.
(2) Can I participate in SICSS-Korea if I have already participated in SICSS at another location?
No. Every year we have more applicants than we can accept, and we would like everyone to have a chance to participate in SICSS once before we allow folks to participate twice.
You can host a partner location of the Summer Institutes of Computational Social Science (SICSS) at your university, company, NGO, or government agency.