The Internet Society Pulse Research Fellowship Description:

Title: The Internet Society Pulse Research Fellowship 2025 for Researchers Worldwide

Application deadline: 23 December 2024

The Internet Society Pulse Research Fellowship is a six-month program that supports researchers in conducting data-driven analysis or developing tools that contribute to an open, globally connected, secure, and trustworthy Internet. The fellowship has been running for three years, and we are introducing a mentor scheme in 2025.

Timeline

1. Application opens: 3 December 2024
2. Application closes: 23 December 2024 (11:59 UTC)
3. Notification: 6 January 2025
4. Deadlines for detailed applications (shortlisted candidates only): 31 January 2025
5. Final notification: 14 February 2025
6. Start date: 3 March 2025 (First cohort) or 2 June 2025 (2nd cohort)

Program Objectives

• Support the development of original, top-tier Internet measurement research.
• Foster a community of researchers, data specialists, and network engineering experts alongside policymakers and journalists to help strengthen and grow the Internet.
• Strengthen partnerships among global organizations working on data-driven research to understand Internet trends.
• Develop new techniques or implement existing methodologies to improve data gathering, analysis, and visualization on the Pulse platform.
• Explore interdisciplinary research topics related to making the Internet resilient, robust, and open.
• Publish in top-tier conferences such as ACM IMC, CoNEXT, SIGMETRICS, or SIGCOMM.

Research Topics

The research topic should reflect one or more of Internet Society Pulse’s focus areas: Enabling Technologies, Internet Shutdowns, Internet Resilience, Market Concentration, and Keeping Traffic Local. Candidates are encouraged to select one of the proposed topics below, but the application is open to all relevant projects.

• Estimating the network and economic benefits of peering
• Measuring DNS resilience
• Quantifying local Internet traffic
• Real-time service blocking detection
• Impact of power outages on Internet resilience
• Predicting Internet shutdowns
• Concentration and consolidation of the Internet
• Internet and climate change
• Internet policy mapping
• Data storytelling and visualization of Internet open datasets

For  more information and application:

Visit the official website of The Internet Society Pulse Research Fellowship 2025 for Researchers Worldwide

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