Funding Opportunities

Google Faculty Research Award
Applications for the Google Faculty Research Award are due October 7. 

Google Phd Fellowships
More on research support, including Google PhD fellowships

Microsoft PhD Fellowship Program – Call for 2018 Fellow applications
Microsoft Research invites exceptional students to apply for our two-year PhD fellowship program. Our fellowships are for students in computer science, electrical engineering and mathematics, as well as interdisciplinary studies intersecting with those domains such as computational biology, social sciences and economics. We encourage department heads at universities in the United States and Canada to start preparing applications now to nominate outstanding fellows for the 2018-2019 academic year.

Nominated PhD students must be in their second or third year of studies. Our award committee is particularly interested in students who are working on theses related to Systems & Networking or AI, emphasizing the disciplines of machine learning, computer vision and robotics.

This coveted fellowship provides 100 percent of tuition and fees for two consecutive academic years and provides an annual stipend of $28,000 plus $4,000 annually for professional conferences and seminars. All of our fellows are also offered the opportunity to intern with leading Microsoft researchers who are working on cutting-edge projects related to their fields of study.

Applicants to the PhD Fellowship Program must be nominated by the chair of the computer science, electrical engineering or mathematics department at their university. We’ll accept up to three applicants per eligible department, per university, for a maximum of nine applications per university.

Applications will be accepted between October 2 and October 16, 2017. Finalists will be invited to Microsoft for in-person interviews. We’ll announce the fellowship awards in January 2018. Learn more about the Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship Program