Facebook Fellowship Program

Deadline: 10/01/2020

The Facebook Fellowship is a global program designed to encourage and support promising doctoral students who are engaged in innovative and relevant research in areas related to computer science and engineering at an accredited university.

Available Fellowships:
– Applied Statistics
– AR/VR Computer Graphics
– AR/VR Photonics and Optics
– AR/VR Privacy and Ethics
– Blockchain and Cryptoeconomics
– Computational Social Science
– Computer Vision
– Database Systems
– Distributed Systems
– Economics and Computation
– Energy Efficient Video Compression
– Instagram/Facebook App Well-being and Safety
– Machine Learning
– Natural Language Processing
– Networking
– Privacy and Data Use
– Programming Languages
– Security and Privacy
– Social and Economic Policy
– Spoken Language Processing and Audio Classification
– Systems for Machine Learning

Duration

Up to 2 years

Funding

Winners of the Fellowship are entitled to receive two years of paid tuition and fees, a $42,000 annual stipend to cover living and conference travel costs, a paid visit to Facebook headquarters for the annual Fellowship Summit, and various opportunities to engage with Facebook researchers.

Eligibility

– Applicants must be full-time PhD students who are enrolled in an accredited university (in any country) by the start of the Fellowship
– Students must be involved in ongoing research related to one or more relevant disciplines
– Students must remain enrolled full-time for the duration of the Fellowship to receive program benefits
– Students should not apply for Facebook Fellowships if they are actively being funded by Facebook through some other sponsorship or collaboration and/or if they are actively being supervised (or co-supervised) by a Facebook researcher.

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