UCI has been invited again this year to participate in the 2015 Google U.S./Canada PhD Fellowship Program, which was created to recognize outstanding graduate students doing exceptional work in computer science, related disciplines, or promising research areas.
Fellowship Details
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
Available Google Fellowships (2015)
Market Algorithms
Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning
Computer Security
Distributed Computing
Statistics
Computer Graphics
Privacy
Programming Technology
Machine Translation
Speech Technology
Mobile Computing
Cloud Computing
Computer Architecture
Computer Vision
Social Computing
Human Computer Interaction
Search & Information Retrieval
Structured Data Analysis
Energy Aware Computing
Computer Networking
Systems Management
Wearable Computing
Eligibility Criteria
Full-time graduate students pursuing a PhD in the research areas represented by the fellowships
Student must remain enrolled in the PhD program or forfeit the fellowship award
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
Internal (UCI) Application Instructions
UCI May submit no more than two fellowship nominations across all available fellowships, therefore an internal review process is required to select the two nominees. Interested applicants are asked, by October 10, 2014, to submit the following to the my office:
Student’s CV
Nomination letter from student’s academic advisor
2-page abbreviated research/dissertation proposal
Please state the specific fellowship, from the above list, that the student is applying for
If necessary, an ad hoc committee will be convened to review the application packets. The selected nominees will be notified in time to meet Google’s November 3, 2014, deadline.
