Funding Support



Please check back later in December for the 2026 request for proposals or follow the links below to read about previous IDIES funding award recipients.

Seed Funding Initiative

Up to $25,000 available to eligible PIs

The goal of this initiative is to provide seed funding for data-intensive computing projects that (a) will involve areas relevant to IDIES and JHU institutional research priorities; (b) are multidisciplinary; and (c) build ideas and teams with good prospects for successful proposals to attract external research support by leveraging IDIES intellectual and physical infrastructure. Learn more »


Summer Student Fellowship

Up to $6,000 available to undergraduates

This program offers awards of $6,000 to support a summer research project lead by undergraduate students with the guidance of an IDIES faculty member mentor. These projects are meant to provide an opportunity for students to participate in a 10-week (June – August) full-time data science focused research project in collaboration with an IDIES faculty member. Learn more »


IDIES operates with support from:

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NSF logo
NASA logo
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Alfred P Sloan Foundation logo
Grant and Betty Moore logo
John Templeton Foundation logo
WM KECK Foundation logo
Intel logo
Microsoft logo
Nokia logo
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