Facebook Fellowship Program 2010 -11 [Closed]
OrganizerFacebook
Key Dates
Applications must be submitted by: February 15, 2010
Award recipients will be notified by: March 29, 2010
Eligibility
Applicants must be enrolled at a U.S. university and meet the eligibility requirements and have a valid Visa.
Facebook has announcesd the creation of the Facebook Fellowship program to support graduate students in the 2010-2011 school year.Every day Facebook confronts the most complex technical problems and they believe that close relationships with the academy will enable them to address many of these problems at a fundamental level and solve them. The fellowships will begin in August or September, depending on the start of the award recipient’s academic year. The fellowship award includes :Tuition and fees will be paid for the academic year , $30K stipend (paid over 9 months of the academic year) , $5K per year toward conference attendance and travel, $5K toward a personal computer & Opportunity to apply for a paid summer internship.
They are interested in a wide range of academic topics, including the following topical areas:
- Internet Economics
- Cloud Computing
- Social Computing
- Data Mining and Machine Learning
- Systems
- Information Retrieval
Eligibility Criteria:
- Full-time Ph.D. students in topical areas represented by these fellowships who are currently involved in on-going research.
- Students must be studying Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, System Architecture, or a related area.
- Students must be enrolled during the academic year that the Fellowship is awarded.
- Students must be nominated by a faculty member.
Please visit the given website for more details.
Website : http://tinyurl.com/y88fnd2
Email address: fellowships@facebook.com
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