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Apply for a STIET Fellowship
You can get Ph.D. funding with a STIET Fellowship: full tuition plus a stipend ($30,000/yr for '07-'08) for the first two years of graduate study
You will have your own research mentor
You will be a part of a strong cross-school community of scholars in the electronic transaction field
You will take STIET core and elective courses to specialize your degree.
You will participate in a weekly research seminar and annual workshops about electronic transaction multi-disciplinary
research.
One-Year Fellowships! Some one-year fellowships
may be available to 2nd year doctoral students in our participating departments
STIET - A Multidisciplinary Doctoral Training Program at the University of Michigan and Wayne State University
In STIET we address the extraordinary changes in communications and computing technology, and the uses and requirements people have for these technologies. We design cyberinfrastructure to support safe, meaningful, efficient, equitable, and productive interactions.
Our research focus is on the use of incentive-centered design (ICD) to deliver new and improved systems for human use of the Internet. ICD proceeds from the observation that the performance and quality of Internet systems depends on the ways in which autonomous, self-motivated individuals interact with each other and with the system. System designers cannot program humans like software, but they can provide appropriately designed incentives in an attempt to induce truthfulness, cooperation, volunteerism, high-quality effort or other desirable behaviors.
We seek to have an impact on designs of real systems: our projects typically are inspired by a practical problem, move into the realm of abstract theorizing, and end by influencing the design of fielded systems.
For more information, write to stiet-info@umich.edu. The STIET Program is funded by NSF IGERT grant no. 0114368 and 0654014. The Research Seminar Series is funded by a Rackham Graduate School and the UM Office of the VP for Research.
STIET has three crucial components:
- Students and faculty collaborate in interdisciplinary ICD research fueled by a weekly seminar series and twice yearly research workshops.
- Coursework and faculty participation from the University of Michigan’s (UM) School of Information, Department of Economics and Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Wayne State University’s Department of Computer Science and the Business School and offers NSF funded fellowships.
- A STIET Summer Research Opportunity Program (S-SROP). This is a new summer research training and mentoring program to prepare and encourage promising undergraduates and masters students to pursue a graduate degree, and will provide a training ground in research leadership and mentoring for our PhD students.
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