Google PhD Fellowship Program

Nurturing and maintaining strong relations with the academic community is a top priority at Google. The Google PhD Student Fellowship Program was created to recognize outstanding graduate students doing exceptional work in computer science, related disciplines, or promising research areas. The program will award up to 6 fellowships in Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Mainland China in 2017 from among the following:

• Google Fellowship in Computational Neuroscience
• Google Fellowship in Machine Learning
• Google Fellowship in Machine Perception, Speech Technology and Computer Vision
• Google Fellowship in Mobile Computing
• Google Fellowship in Natural Language Processing (including Information Retrieval and Extraction)
• Google Fellowship in Robotics
• Google Fellowship in Systems and Networking

Applications are not accepted directly from students. Please contact your department to find out if your university is one of the eligible universities, or to receive additional information.

Fellowship Details

Google will award one-year fellowship consisting of:

• US$10K: to cover stipend and other research related activities, travel expense including overseas travel. (Please be noted that monetary awards differ by regions)
• Google Research Mentor
• Opportunity to join Google global annual PhD Fellowship Summit and covering the travel cost
• Opportunity to apply for a paid summer internship (but not guaranteed and not required)

Eligibility Criteria

In order to be considered for the 2017 Google PhD Fellowship Program, students must meet the following criteria:

• Full-time graduate students pursuing a PhD in the research areas represented by the fellowships
• Must attend one of the eligible schools and universities. Student must remain enrolled in the PhD program or forfeit the fellowship award
• Must be nominated by their department/university
• Must have completed their graduate coursework in the PhD program and be embarking on or continuing their graduate research in the fall of 2017
• Students who have already received fellowship from other companies are not eligible (but not conflict with those from local government).
• Google employees and family members of Google employees are not eligible

Application Process and Requirements

For each student nomination, the university will be asked to submit:

• Name of fellowship for which student is being considered
• Student CV
• Transcript of current and previous academic records
• Research/dissertation proposal (recommended length 4-5 pages, no longer than 8)
• 2-3 letters of recommendation from those familiar with the nominee’s work (at least one coming from the thesis advisor)
• All application materials should be in English

Each eligible university is invited to submit a maximum of 2 student nominations for fellowship consideration. Please feel free to extend your search to students who may be in other department other than Computer Science but also pursuing their research in the computational sciences. Note that given that the fellowship areas overlap, we may choose a different fellowship for your nomination. Nominations and applications materials are due May 31, 2017. Committees of distinguished engineers and researchers from within Google will be reviewing all applications.

Official Link

Deadline: 31st May, 2017