18-19 IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Program (Fall 2018)

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. For example, nominees that are enrolled in a four year graduate program should have completed two years of their graduate program as of summer 2019 in order to benefit the most. Students from US embargoed countries are not eligible for the program. 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, as evidenced by publications and endorsements from their faculty advisor and department head. Students receiving a comparable fellowship from another company or institution during the same academic period may not be eligible for an IBM PhD Fellowship.

Note: Over the last few years, previous winners from this department have all been 1-2 years away from graduation, and all had internships/co-ops with IBM prior to applying for the fellowship.

Required Materials:

1. Student's C.V./resume.  3 page limit.
2. Began PhD program. YYYY-MM
3. Expected graduation date. YYYY-MM
4. Immigration Status. If the nominee is interested in interning at an IBM Research lab, please provide information on their work status. For example in the US, please provide the student's Visa status (E-1, F-1, H-1, or J-1).
5. A description of the student's Ph.D. dissertation. IBM has set a 255 character limit.  For internal review, please submit both a one-page statement and a 255 character statement. 
6. Faculty Adviser's evaluation. "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)"  NOTE: IBM has set a 200 word limit on evaluations.  However, for the internal review, please submit a standard-length letter.
7. A description of the any of the nominee's special considerations, such as personal attributes, or other (non-CS) accomplishments, etc.  IBM has set a 100 character limit.
8. 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 10/15/2018 to Samantha Hendon (2237 SC).

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 Samantha. Students, please include your netid in the filename(s) of any email attachments. Note that the final submission will need to be made as plain-text (online text-box submission).