How to Apply

Outline your institutional affiliation, current leadership capacity, and career stage, highlighting your leadership experience or potential to drive AI-related change and team-based AI adoption. Include a link to your professional profile or personal website.

Provide a concise curriculum vitae highlighting relevant experience, leadership roles, and scholarly or professional achievements.

Articulate a potential initiative you are thinking of leading locally—such as modernizing a course curriculum, establishing an AI-supported research workflow, or developing a departmental policy or pilot—and explain how it addresses a critical challenge in your local environment. Explain your vision and practical plan to design, pilot, and scale it within your position, describe how you will engage with and contribute to the Academy cohort, and detail the expected benefits to your organization, field, or the statistical community at large.

Provide evidence of institutional readiness and explicit buy-in from a supervisor or department/school leader, confirming support for your authority and capacity to implement the proposed AI initiative.