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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
• $35k 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:

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