Last Tuesday, 5 December, we held the 2023 Pulse Research Fellowship Review webinar (watch the recording below) to showcase the work achieved by this year’s cohort and answer questions about next year’s program.
Here is a snapshot of the program and its outputs.
82 Applications from 35 Countries > 3 Inagural Fellows
For the inaugural edition of the fellowship, we received 82 applications from 35 countries. Ten proposals were considered in the next round, during which candidates had to provide detailed project proposals.
Our criteria for selection were:
- Relevance to Internet Society Pulse focus areas
- Quality of the application
- Whether or not the project has some potential, either as a research study, a novel technique, or a new product
All 10 shortlisted projects were very high quality and relevant to Pulse’s four focuses that seek to measure and track Internet shutdowns, Internet enabling technologies, Internet resilience, and market concentration.
Below is a list of the eventual 2023 fellows and their project outcomes.
| Name | Project Title | Outcomes |
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| Alagappan Ramanathan, PhD Student at the University of California, Irvine, US | Analyzing Cross-layer Resilience of the Internet under Catastrophic Natural Disasters #InternetResilience #InternetOutages |
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| Aravindh Raman, Telefonica Research, Spain | VizSphere: Visualizing global connectivity through the eyes of Internet Observatories #InternetResilience #LEOperformance |
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| Sadia Nourin, Masters Student at the University of Maryland, US | Widespread Censorship Measurement Without Endpoint Participation #InternetOutages |
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Applications for the 2024 Pulse Research Fellowship close on 15 December
As a reminder, the submission deadline for next year’s intake is Friday, 15 December 2023. Apply now!
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