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.