Nexus X Health AI Fellowship
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Learn Health AI
through research.
A sixteen-week mentored research fellowship. Join a small team and take a research question from concept to a submission-ready paper, learning relevant AI methods along the way — guided by experts in the field.
- 16 weeks
- 6–8 hours per week
- < 10 fellows
- Capped by mentor capacity
- 1 paper
- Submission-ready, your name on it
- 1:1 supervision
- Fortnightly, plus weekly team critique
The focus
AI research that improves health
Leveraging the Nexus X research pipeline, you will work with an interdisciplinary team spanning clinicians, engineers, data scientists, sociologists, lawyers, and public health researchers, applying AI to tackle the biggest problems in healthcare.
- Framing
- Turn a clinical or health-system problem into a research question AI can actually answer, and defend the choice.
- Methods & evidence
- Design the study, work with real data, and make the analysis stand up to review.
- Evaluation
- Test assumptions, surface failure modes, and decide honestly what the evidence supports.
- Translation
- Write and present the work so clinicians, reviewers, and decision-makers can act on it.
Who it's for
Open to diverse backgrounds
- Clinicians & health professionals
- Turn clinical questions and domain judgment into rigorous AI research, without needing to be an engineer first.
- Engineers & Data Scientists
- Engineers and data scientists who want their craft tested against consequential clinical problems, alongside people who know the domain.
- Humanities, lawyers & social scientists
- Interrogate how AI actually impacts health — behaviour, ethics, regulation, equity — by working directly with the people building the systems.
- Researchers & students
- Graduate students and early-career researchers who want a real project and a submission-ready paper, not another course.
The programme
Stand out after 16 weeks
Weeks 1–2
Orient — the problem space
Land in the state of the art. Journal-club the field, meet the live briefs, and form teams matched by complementary expertise.
Weeks 3–5
Define — the proposal
Turn ambiguity into a research question: related work, methods, data plan, evaluation criteria, risks.
OutputA written research proposal, defended in a mock review with mentors.
Weeks 6–12
Build — the execution sprint
Run the study on real data inside your mentored team. Weekly critique, fortnightly 1:1s, and a midpoint checkpoint against the proposal.
Weeks 13–16
Demonstrate — the paper
A structured writing sprint, then Demo Day.
OutputA submission-ready short paper or preprint, presented to the cohort, mentors, and invited guests — with a concrete submission plan for a target venue.
Each week: one live methods seminar, one team working session, and protected build time. Fortnightly 1:1 mentorship. Expect around 6–8 hours per week.
Outputs
What you leave with
- A submission-ready paper
- Every fellow finishes with a short paper or preprint they can explain and defend — your name, your work.
- A Demo Day presentation
- Your research, presented to the cohort, the mentor bench, and invited guests.
- A shot at publication
- The programme drives toward real venues — ML4H, CHIL, NeurIPS and ICML health workshops, JMIR — and mentors guide venue choice and submission. Acceptance is never in our gift, but the work is built to compete.
- Co-authorship where it's earned
- Fellows whose work contributes materially to Nexus X research are credited on those publications under normal research norms.
Mentorship
Experts in the field
Mentors are practising researchers who come from the Nexus X lab or from Harvard- and MIT-affiliated labs. Since mentors change from cohort to cohort, we will list the projects and their mentors before applications open. Every fellow has the opportunity to meet 1:1 with their mentor and receive priceless feedback.
Fees
Fees & scholarships
Professional
Clinicians, industry engineers and data scientists, and other salaried professionals.
$3,600USD
Student & Trainee
Enrolled degree students.
$1,800USD
- No application fee. Payment only on acceptance.
- Employer sponsorship — we invoice your organisation directly and provide a sponsorship letter template.
- A small number of need-based scholarships each cohort. Ask in your application; it never affects selection.
- Accepted but timing no longer works? Defer your place to the next cohort once, free.
Questions
Frequently asked
- How is this different from a course?
- Courses are organised around content. The fellowship is organised around contribution: you learn the methods you need while producing real research with mentors and peers.
- Do I need to code?
- Not necessarily. Teams pair clinical and technical expertise deliberately. Selection weighs what you can contribute, what you want to learn, and how you work with others.
- Who owns the work?
- Your paper is yours — you keep authorship of your fellowship research. Where work contributes to Nexus X publications, co-authorship follows normal research norms.
- What is the time commitment?
- Around 6–8 hours per week for sixteen weeks: one live methods seminar, one team working session, protected build time, and fortnightly 1:1 mentorship.
- Can my employer pay?
- Yes — we invoice organisations directly and provide a letter template to make the internal case.
- Will I be published?
- Every fellow finishes with a submission-ready paper and a submission plan; mentors guide venue choice. Acceptance depends on peer review — we build the work to compete, and we don't promise what reviewers decide.
Nexus X Health AI Fellowship
Mentored.
Selective.
Small teams, direct mentorship, and a real research output in Health AI. Register your interest and be the first to receive information on the mentor line up, projects, dates, and selection criteria when applications open.
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