The fellowship offering job-hunting grads an AI training lifeline

The fellowship offering job-hunting grads an AI training lifeline

In early March, Volkan Çinar, a chemistry postdoc at MIT, received an email recruiting him to train AI models. Çinar studies carbon-carbon bonds formation in graphene. Given the stiff competition for jobs in academia, Çinar was no longer sure if his dream of working in academia made sense. So he was receptive to the email’s pitch. The email came from Handshake, the job search platform which connects 18 million students from 1,600 higher ed insti…