2020-2021 | Past Announcements

Targeting students who are near completion of their PhDs, the program offers training in fields outside of the student’s current area of expertise.  The goal is to introduce Fellows to the ideas, practices, methods, and cultures of other scientific disciplines, thereby exposing Fellows to new topics, new ways of thinking, and new people who can help guide Fellows toward new paths to success.  

The Microsoft Research Ada Lovelace Fellowship aims to increase the pipeline of diverse talent receiving advanced degrees in computing-related fields by providing a research funding opportunity for doctoral students from groups underrepresented in computing (women, African-Americans/Blacks, Latinos, American Indians/Alaskan Natives, Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders, people with disabilities and/or LGBTQ).

Tuition & fees for three years

$42,000 stipend for three years

Invitation for a salaried internship

Invitation to PhD Summit

Students must be in the third year of an eligible PhD program in the fall semester of 2018. International students (non-U.S. citizens) are eligible.

*NOTE: This opportunity was previously open to second and third year PhD students. Requirements recently changed and now Microsoft requires fellows to be third year.

Tuition & fees for two years

$42,000 stipend for two years

Invitation for a salaried internship

Invitation to PhD Summit

9/10/2020

9/30/2020

NOTE: Eligibility criteria changed as of 10/10/18.

Applicants must be in at least their 3rd year of a PhD program by the fall semester or quarter of the year when the fellowship begins.

10/8/2020

10/23/20

Students must be nominated by a doctoral faculty member and must be a full-time student in a PhD program over the two consecutive academic years of the award or forfeit their fellowship. Students should have three years remaining in their graduate program at the time of nomination. 

Award Recipients will be selected based on their overall potential for research excellence, the degree to which their technical interests align with those of IBM , and their academic progress to-date.

In the US, fellowship recipients while in school will receive a stipend for living expenses, travel, and to attend conferences ($35,000 for 2021-2022 and $35,000 for 2022-2023).

US fellowship recipients will also receive $25,000 toward their education in 2021-2022.

ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award and Illinois CS David J. Kuck Outstanding PhD Thesis Awards, Deadline for faculty nominations to ACM & Kuck PhD extended to 10/22/20

Two Sigma Fellowship, Deadline is 10/22/20

Two Sigma Diversity Fellowship, Deadline is10/22/20

Graduate College Conference Participation Awards, Deadline is 10/28/20