Facebook announces that they have expanded the Facebook Fellowship Award to cover two years!
The Fellowship Program is open to full-time PhD students (domestic and international) enrolled during the current academic year and studying computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system architecture, or a related area.
Each Facebook Fellowship includes several benefits:
- Tuition and fees will be paid for the academic year(s)
- $37,000 yearly grant
- Paid visit to Facebook HQ to present your research
- Opportunity for paid internship
Required application materials:
- Research Summary
1-2 page research summary, which clearly identifies the area of focus and applicability of anticipated research to Facebook. - Resume or CV
- Two email contacts for a letter of recommendation:
- Advisor
- Professional reference (can be from academia or industry)
Fellowship Research Areas
- Architecture
- Data Mining
- Databases
- Distributed Systems
- Computer Vision
- Human-Computer Interaction & Social Computing
- Economics and Computation
- Machine Learning
- Natural Language Processing
- Networking & Operating Systems
- Programming Languages & Compilers
- Security & Privacy
- Software Engineering
Application Deadline
Completed applications are due by Tuesday, January 6, 2015 at 8:59am
(Applications may be saved and edited up until application deadline)
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