DeepLabCut receives an EOSS award and introduces a new AI Residency Program!

We have been incredibly fortunate to have funding and support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative through the Essential Open Source Software for Science program and we are beyond thrilled to announce, we have been awarded a new round of funding for 2021-2023 through EOSS Cycle 4! Moreover, we are extremely excited to announce we also received funding to establish a DeepLabCut AI Residency program! Read their official announcement here!

New EOSS Cycle 4 Funding:
We are extremely thankful to CZI for providing us continued funding to support one of our core-developers (Dr. Jessy Lauer), and this funding will also help us to grow our team with a new community manager (stay tuned for a job posting soon)!

DeepLabCut AI Residency Program:

The aim of this funding is to establish a new DeepLabCut AI Residency Program for underrepresented groups. DeepLabCut is used for research in a growing range of fields: from animal conservation, to biomechanics, to neuroscience. Many end users do not have formal training in computer science, deep learning, or experience with best-practices in programming.

To help ease this gap and train the next-gen, we will now establish a new program to host paid AI Residents exclusively selected from groups underrepresented in computer science. The goal of this DeepLabCut AI Residency will be to train and empower students to use and modify code, develop new add-ons, and become leaders within the DeepLabCut consortium and the open source community more broadly. To this end, our Residency Program will aim to recruit both more experienced users and novice users -- by having a mixture of backgrounds (both in terms of lived experiences and work experiences) working together, we hope to provide a nurturing environment where they can both learn more about DeepLabCut, open source practices, and develop new skills, while at the same time enabling them to contribute. The program will run as a 10 week AI Residency during the summer of 2022, 2023, and hopefully beyond!

📣 Stay tuned for many more details about the program and for our application page this winter for Summer 2022! 💜