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Internal CS Deadline: TBD (Last year's 11/2/2016)
External (Grad College) Deadline: TBA (Last year's 11/10/2016)
Google Deadline: TBA (Last year's 12/1/2016)

Google Ph.D. Fellowship (Fall 2017)

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. 

Each department may submit up to four nominations to the Graduate College. Each university is limited to 2 nominations.

Google will award two-year fellowships consisting of:

  • Tuition and fees
  • $34k yearly stipend (paid over 9 months of the academic year)
  • Google Research Mentor
  • Third year extension possible at Google's discretion

Google will award approximately 15 fellowships from among the following topical areas:

  • Computational Neuroscience
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Machine Learning
  • Machine Perception, Speech Technology, & Computer Vision
  • Market Algorithms
  • Mobile Computing
  • Natural Language Processing (including Information Retrieval & Extraction)
  • Privacy & Security
  • Programming Technology & Software Engineering
  • Structured Data & Database Management
  • Systems & Networking
  • Operating Systems

See: https://www.grad.illinois.edu/fellowship/index.cfm?action=main.fellowship&fid=3163         http://research.google.com/university/relations/phd_fellowships.html



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titleEligibility
  • Full-time graduate students pursuing a PhD in the research areas represented by the fellowships
  • Must attend an eligible university, including Illinois.
  • Must be nominated by their department
  • Must have completed their graduate coursework in the PhD program and be embarking on or continuing their graduate research in the fall of 2016
  • Students who are already receiving another fellowship are not eligible

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