Google PhD Fellowship Program, Worldwide (2019)

Google PhD Fellowships directly support graduate students as they pursue their PhD, as well as connect them to a Google Research Mentor.

Nurturing and maintaining strong relations with the academic community is a top priority at Google. The Google PhD Fellowship Program was created to recognize outstanding graduate students doing exceptional work in computer science and related research areas. We currently offer Fellowships in Australia, China and East Asia, Europe, Africa, India, the United States and Canada.

Google PhD Fellowship students are a select group recognized by Google researchers and their institutions as some of the most promising young academics in the world. The Fellowships are awarded to students who represent the future of research in the following fields:

- Algorithms, Optimizations and Markets
- Computational Neuroscience
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Machine Learning
- Machine Perception, Speech Technology and Computer Vision
- Mobile Computing
- Natural Language Processing (including Information Retrieval and Extraction)
- Privacy and Security
- Programming Languages and Software Engineering
- Quantum Computing
- Structured Data and Database Management
- Systems and Networking

Eligibility
In North America, universities must be an accredited PhD granting institution in Computer Science or related field to be eligible. In Europe, the equivalent is a research university active in higher education in Informatics or Computer Science. See Google Cloud Platform’s European countries listed to view the countries in Europe that may participate.

In Australia, China and East Asia, direct invitations for nominations are sent to the Computer Science departments and/or Graduate Funding offices of eligible universities.

In India and Africa, applications are open to students in Computer Science and related areas from any Indian or African university, respectively.

For more information, please visit the following link:
Google PhD Fellowship Program, Worldwide (2019)