DSA Membership

The Data Science Applications program (DSA) encourages a high level of engagement from industry

Corporate members are an integral part of DSA. Relationships between companies, faculty, and graduate students provide everyone with valuable insights on opportunities, problems, and solutions. Corporations are the most important path to commercialization at scale and achieving societal impact. The DSA Affiliate Program works closely with diverse industries including information technology, communications, social networks, finance, insurance, health care, semiconductors, retail, manufacturing, utilities, oil and gas, and transportation. Corporate membership fees provide unrestricted support for DSA research and other activities where the emphasis is on two-way communication between researchers and companies.

Member Benefits

Corporate members provide valuable financial support and leadership, and receive substantial benefits. The DSA Affiliate Program offers two membership levels: Founding and Regular members. Both types of members have the opportunity for active engagement with faculty and students and extensive opportunities to learn about emerging research results at retreats, conferences, seminars, symposia, workshops, and informal interactions.

Benefits to Regular and Founding members include:
• Opportunities for hosted visits to Stanford
• Opportunity to send visiting scholars. For additional information please see the Visiting Scholar Policy.
• Student recruiting opportunities
• Discounted employee enrollments in select professional and technical courses from the Stanford Engineering Center for Global & Online Education

Founding Members receive additional benefits including membership on the DSA Industry Advisory Council, opportunities to advise the research agenda, an office on campus, a faculty liaison, workshops at Stanford, and faculty and student visits to companies. The purpose of the visits are to give technical presentations and discuss with the member areas of mutual interest. All of the site presentations and all information, data and results arising from such visitation interactions will be shared with all members and the public. Additional information can be found in the Research Policy Handbook.

Inside a DSA Event

Take a look inside DSA's 2023 Graph Learning annual meeting. This is where speakers introduce novel concepts from the frontier of innovation. Hosted on the beautiful Stanford campus, our events are structured to maximize information flow and connection with peers from research and industry.

Contribution

Regular membership is $100,000 per year and Founding membership is $500,000 per year. Companies are encouraged to develop long-term multi-year relationships. These contributions are used to fund research projects, the DSA data and tools repository, and other programs and activities. Companies may provide additional funding above the membership fee to support an area of on-going research with faculty participating within the program. All research results arising from the use of the additional funding will be shared with all program members and the general public. An Affiliate Program member may request the additional funding be used to support a particular area of program research identified on the program’s website, or the program research of a named faculty member, as long as the faculty is identified on the program website as participating in the Affiliate Program.

Industrial affiliates programs are subject to Stanford University policies for industry affiliates programs. Please see the Stanford University Policies Affecting Industrial Affiliates Program Membership

Open Source IP

Modern data science is revolutionizing research and changing society.  DSA focuses on the fundamental challenges of data, computation, information, and statistics.  The goal is to conduct world-leading research in data science and its applications, in an open and collaborative environment. The ability to share ideas, tools, data, and results openly and without barriers is essential for collaboration with researchers at Stanford and elsewhere, and essential for having impact in the data science community.

DSA researchers will use and develop open-source software, and it is the intention of all DSA researchers that any software released will be released under an open-source model, such as the BSD open source license.  DSA is open to all Stanford faculty who share this goal.

Current Members

Founding Member

Regular Members

Contact Us

For further information please contact Joseph Huang, Executive Director of Strategic Research Initiatives.

 Joseph Huang: Joseph.Huang [at] stanford.edu