The IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Awards Program is an intensely competitive worldwide program, which honors exceptional Ph.D. students who have an interest in solving problems that are important to IBM and fundamental to innovation in many academic disciplines and areas of study. These include: computer science and engineering (including cyber security, cloud, and mobile computing), electrical and mechanical engineering, physical sciences (including chemistry, material sciences, and physics), mathematical sciences (including analytics of massive scale data with uncertainty, operations research, and optimization), public sector and business sciences (including urban policy and analytics, social technologies, learning systems and Cognitive Computing), and Service Science, Management, and Engineering (SSME). Additionally, IBM Research is paying special attention to the following areas of focus for 2015-2016
OTHER THINGS TO KNOW
- The IBM Ph.D. Fellowships are awarded worldwide
- IBM Ph.D. Fellows are awarded a stipend for one academic year
- Fellowships vary by country/geographic area, and the students will be informed at the time of the award what the value is for their country/geographic area
ELIGIBLILITY
- Students must be nominated by a doctoral faculty member and enrolled full-time in a college or university Ph.D. program
- The faculty member is encouraged to contact an IBM colleague prior to submitting the nomination to assure mutual interest
- Outside of Europe and Russia, students must have completed at least one year of study in their doctoral program at the time of their nomination. Students from U.S. embargoed countries are not eligible for the program
Deadline: October 27, 2015
To apply and for more information visit here
