Versions Compared

Old Version 1

changes.mady.by.user shendon

Saved on

compared with

New Version 2

changes.mady.by.user shendon

Saved on

Key

  • This line was added.
  • This line was removed.
  • Formatting was changed.

CS Deadline: 7/23/2018 by 11:59P

3M Foundation Fellowship

3M produces thousands of imaginative products, and is a leader in scores of markets - from health care and highway safety to office products and abrasives and adhesives. Their success begins with an ability to apply technologies to an endless array of real-world customer needs. In 2011, 3M and the 3M Foundation contributed more than $60 million in cash and products to nonprofit and education organizations. Giving targets included education, health and human services, arts and culture, and the environment.

There is one, one-year $10,000 fellowship and one $10,000 fellowship (that is renewable for up to 2 years) available to CS students through this program for academic year 2018-2019.

CS PhD students entering their second year of studies in Fall 2018, and who are working in areas of interest to 3M. Areas of interest include:

  • Software Design (User-centered interface design; software requirements analysis)
  • Mobile Solutions (iOS, Android, mobile web; mobile development infrastructure; mobile development process)
  • Computational Intelligence & Expert Systems (machine learning algorithms leveraging big datasets)
  • Data Management & Data Mining (big data; cloud computing; reporting & analytics)
  • Software Engineering (developer tools; quality assurance; project management; web/client software development; 3D, touch, & gesture development)
  • Computer Vision, Vision Understanding, & Image Processing

...

Expand
titleSubmission Details (by 10/31/2017 by 5:00PM)

Required Materials:

  1. CV/resume.
  2. Research Statement. 2 page maximum, plus references.
  3. Letter of Recommendation from your advisor discussing your research potential / accomplishments. The letter should include a sentence or two discussing your work's (potential) relevance to State Farm. (Newly arrived PhD students for Fall 2018 may use an external letter writer.)
  4. Unofficial Transcript. Visit UI Integrate Self-Service and view Academic History.  Save as PDF, HTML, or Word doc. https://apps.uillinois.edu/selfservice/
  5. If you are chosen as a winner, please indicate whether or not the department has permission to publicize it (on our website, alumni newsletter, etc.).

Materials should be submitted by 11:59PM on 7/23/18 to Samantha Hendon (2237 SC).

Note: Electronic documents are preferred and should be submitted as PDFs, Word documents, or plain-text files. Students, please include your netid in your file names (e.g. netid_cv.pdf). Letters of recommendation should be submitted directly to Samantha.