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
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Required Materials: - CV/resume.
- Research Statement. 2 page maximum, plus references.
- Letter of Recommendation. One to two letters 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.)individuals familiar with your research; one of these should be from your adviser. The letters should discuss your research potential / accomplishments.
- Unofficial Transcript. Visit UI Integrate Self-Service and view Academic History. Save as PDF, HTML, or Word doc. https://apps.uillinois.edu/selfservice/
- 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 via the Fellowship Application Form by 11:59PM on 7/18 to 23/18. Questions? Please contact 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 NetID in your file names (e.g. netid_cv.pdf). Letters of recommendation should be submitted directly to Samantha.
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