Google Ph.D. Fellowship (Fall 2014)

Google Ph.D. Fellowship (Fall 2014)

Internal CS Deadline: 10/8/2014
External (Grad College) Deadline: 10/23/2014
Google Deadline: 11/3/2014

See: https://www.grad.illinois.edu/fellowship/listing/3163

http://research.google.com/university/relations/phd_fellowships.html

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 is limited to four nominations to the Graduate College. Each university is limited to 2 nominations.

This highly competitive program will award approximately 14 unique fellowships nationwide this year from among the following: Market Algorithms, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Computer Security, Distributed Computing, Programming Technology, Machine Translation, Speech Technology, Human Computer Interaction, Cloud Computing, Computer Architecture, Structured Data Analysis, Search and Information Retrieval, Energy Aware Computing, Mobile Computing, Computer Vision, Social Computing, Computer Networking, Systems Management, Wearable Computing, Statistics, Computer Graphics, and Privacy.

Fellowship Details: 

Google will award two-year fellowships consisting of:

• Tuition and fees
• $34k yearly stipend (paid over 9 months of the academic year)
• Google Research Mentor
• Third year extension possible at Google's discretion

Eligibility:

• Full-time graduate students pursuing a PhD in the research areas represented by the fellowships
• Must be nominated by their department
• Must have completed their graduate coursework in the PhD program and be embarking on or continuing their graduate research in the fall of 2015
• Students who are already receiving another fellowship are not eligible

Please ensure that the following materials are submitted by 5pm on 10/8/2014 to Colin Robertson (colinr@illinois.edu, 2233 SC):
1) Name of the area (from above list) in which student is being nominated.
2) Student's CV.
3) Research proposal following the Graduate College's guidelines:  Dissertation Research Proposal (maximum length 5 pages, single spaced, 12 point font, Times New Roman, 1-inch margins.  Include a title for the proposed research.  Proposals not following this format will be disqualified.).  An accompanying References Cited section (2 pages maximum) should also be submitted.
4) Letter of recommendation from thesis adviser.
5) 1-2 additional letters of recommendation from those familiar with the student's work.  (I recommend 2 letters).

Note: Electronic documents are preferred and should be submitted as PDFs, Word documents, or plain-text files.  Letters of recommendation should be sent from the letter writer directly to colinr@illinois.edu. Students, please include your netid in your file names.  I recommend that students submit their CVs and statement(s) to their letter writers at least a week prior to the deadline.