Dalal Family Postdoctoral Fellowship in AI Ethics
As part of For Ever Better: The Campaign for the University of Rochester, Siddhartha “Sid” Dalal ’71 (MA), ’73S (MBA), ’76 (PhD), a Columbia University professor and a distinguished technologist, academic, and leader in data science, risk analysis, and applied AI, and his children—Nemil Dalal and Preeyel Dalal ’06—have committed more than $1 million to establish the Dalal Family Postdoctoral Fellowship in AI Ethics at the Goergen Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. The new fellowship will advance research and teaching focused on responsible design, development, deployment, governance, and societal implications of AI systems.
The Dalal Family Fellowship supports applied research on AI and its societal impact, informing policy and addressing real-world ethical challenges across human life. Future Dalal Family Postdoctoral Fellows will receive a stipend, mentorship, teaching opportunities, and support for interdisciplinary collaboration for one to two years.
For the purposes of this Fellowship, “AI Ethics” refers to scholarship related to artificial intelligence systems and addressing the responsible design, development, deployment, governance, and societal implications of artificial intelligence systems. Relevant areas may include, but are not limited to, algorithmic fairness and bias, transparency and accountability of AI systems, AI safety and alignment, privacy and data ethics, human-centered AI design, and the governance and regulation of artificial intelligence technologies.
Applications for the Dalal Family Fellowship are now open. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis starting on July 1, 2026, until the position has been filled. More information is available on the GIDS-AI employment page.
AI has been a great boon, yet it also presents significant challenges—many of them ethical. We made this gift to address AI’s opportunities and challenges now—to consider its ethical dimensions and impact on society, the environment, the battlefield, and beyond.
Sid Dalal ’71 (MA), ’73S (MBA), ’76 (PhD)