{"id":360389,"date":"2017-02-02T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T17:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?p=360389"},"modified":"2017-02-02T12:51:53","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T20:51:53","slug":"microsoft-research-phd-fellowships-provide-financial-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/blog\/microsoft-research-phd-fellowships-provide-financial-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Research PhD fellowships provide financial support to promising researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"

By <\/em>Jim Pinkelman<\/a>, Senior Director, Microsoft Research<\/em><\/p>\n

Since 2008, Microsoft Research has been awarding two-year PhD fellowships to computer science and related researchers at leading universities in the United States and Canada. These awards are designed to help promising young researchers focus on their studies, not their finances!<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s program provides fellowships to 10, second- or third-year PhD students who are studying computer science, electrical engineering or mathematics. Recipients receive full tuition for their program, along with a generous living expense and a conference attendance stipend. In addition, the fellows are offered the opportunity to intern with a Microsoft researcher.<\/p>\n

To identify these promising researchers, Microsoft Research goes through a rigorous process. First, department chairs nominate their best candidates, up to 9 from each university. Each application is vetted, and Microsoft researchers interview finalists to identify the awardees.<\/p>\n

\"Microsoft<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s awardees for the 2017-19 academic years are:<\/p>\n

Michael B. Cohen\u00a0<\/strong>
\nMassachusetts Institute of Technology
\nMathematics, complexity and cryptography<\/p>\n

Bita Darvish Rouhani <\/strong>
\nUniversity of California, San Diego
\nComputer architecture and hardware<\/p>\n

Michaelanne Dye <\/strong>
\nGeorgia Institute of Technology
\nHuman-computer interaction, social computing and collaboration<\/p>\n

Kira Goldner
\n<\/strong>University of Washington
\nAlgorithms and economic systems<\/p>\n

Aditya Grover <\/strong>
\nStanford University
\nMachine learning and intelligence<\/p>\n

Silu Huang <\/strong>
\nUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
\nData management and mining<\/p>\n

Ethan J. Jackson <\/strong>
\nUniversity of California, Berkeley
\nMobility and networking<\/p>\n

Saswat Padhi <\/strong>
\nUniversity of California, Los Angeles
\nSoftware engineering and programming languages<\/p>\n

Andrew Quinn <\/strong>
\nUniversity of Michigan
\nOperating systems and distributed computing<\/p>\n

Mengting Wan <\/strong>
\nUniversity of California, San Diego
\nData management and mining<\/p>\n

Congratulations, 2017\u2019s awardees! Interested in applying for next year? Applications from department chairs (sorry, no self-referrals) are due in October; ask your department chair if they are planning to participate.<\/p>\n

Learn more<\/strong><\/p>\n