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Internal Deadline: Thursday, October 15, 2020
External Deadline: Friday, October 23, 2020

IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Program

The IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Awards Program is an intensely competitive worldwide program, which honors exceptional Ph.D. students who have an interest in solving problems that are important to IBM and fundamental to innovation in many academic disciplines and areas of study. Strong collaboration with faculty, students and universities is vital to IBM. The IBM PhD Fellowship Program advances this collaboration by recognizing and supporting exceptional PhD students who want to make their mark in promising and disruptive technologies. Focus areas include the following topics of particular interest:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cloud / Open Source Technologies
  • Data Science
  • Hybrid Cloud
  • Quantum Computing / Quantum Systems
  • Security / Cyber Security
  • Systems

Since the creation of the IBM PhD Fellowship Program in 1951, we have supported thousands of PhD students -- with more than 700 students supported over the past 10 years alone.

Preference will be given to students who have had an IBM internship or have closely collaborated with technical or services people from IBM.

The 2021 two-year IBM PhD Fellowships are awarded worldwide.

  • U.S. country awards are $60,000 in award year one and $35,000 in award year two.
  • Other country awards vary between $6,000-$25,000 each award year depending on the country.

All IBM PhD Fellowship awardees will be mentored by an IBMer in order to collaborate on a research or technology project for the duration of the award period and are strongly encouraged to do an internship during the first or second year of their award.

See: https://www.research.ibm.com/university/awards/fellowships-faq.html
         https://www.research.ibm.com/university/awards/fellowships.html

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titleSubmission Details (by 10/15/20 at 11:59 PM)

Required Materials:

  1. Application Cover Page & Eligibility Verification–download form and include as first page in application.
  2. CV/Resume (3 page limit) - include current contact information (email, phone, and mailing address), education, publications, awards, and service
  3. PhD Dissertation Description (2000 character limit)
  4. Faculty Advisor’s Evaluation (2000 character limit) – “Include comparisons with peers and recent graduates, and detail what the impact of this student's thesis is likely to be. Also include evidence of outstanding achievement in both academic and research activities (other fellowships, awards, grants, and/or recognition of academic achievement).”
  5. Special Considerations (1000 character limit) - Itemize any special considerations such as personal attributes, other accomplishments, etc. 
  6. *Strongly Encouraged* A reference letter from a scientist at IBM. For internal review. (If you do not know someone from IBM well enough to request a letter, you may want to reconsider whether or not you should apply.)

Materials should be submitted by 11:59PM on Thursday, October 15, 2020 to Michelle Wellens.

A maximum of three nominations per department may be submitted, plus renewals.

Note: Electronic documents are preferred and should be submitted as PDFs. Letters of recommendation should be sent from the letter writer directly to Michelle Wellens. Students, submit ONE PDF named "Last Name, First Name - 20-21. IBM". Note that the final submission will need to be made as plain-text (online text-box submission).

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