IBM PhD Fellowship Award Program

• must be nominated by a doctoral faculty member
• must be a full-time student in a PhD program over the two consecutive academic years of the award or forfeit their fellowship
• should have three years remaining in their graduate program at the time of nomination; (nominees that are enrolled in a four year graduate program should have completed two years of their graduate program as of summer in order to benefit the most)

Students from US embargoed countries are not eligible for the program. Students receiving a comparable fellowship or internship from another company or institution (does not include academic scholarships) during the same IBM funded academic period may not be eligible for an IBM PhD Fellowship.

The two-year IBM PhD Fellowships are awarded worldwide: non-USA country awards vary between US$ 6,000- US$ 25,000; each award year depending on country. All IBM PhD Fellowship awardees will be mentored by an IBMer in order to collaborate on a research or technology project for the duration of the award period and are strongly encouraged to do an internship during the first or second year of their award. The program seeks to increase the number of under-represented minority students in the referenced science topics of interest by encouraging a diverse applicant pool.
Since the creation of the IBM PhD Fellowship Program in 1951, thousands of PhD students have been supported.

Purposes: Strong collaboration with faculty, students and universities is vital to IBM. The IBM PhD Fellowship Program advances this collaboration by recognizing and supporting exceptional PhD students who want to make their mark in promising and disruptive technologies.

Programmes:

PhD studies in the following topics of particular interest:

• Hybrid Cloud
• Quantum Computing / Quantum Systems
• Artificial Intelligence
• Cloud / Open Source Technologies
• Security / Cyber Security
• Data Science
• Systems

Countries of origin: all nationalities and worldwide: except US embargoed countries

IBM Academic Awards

2020: 24 / 2019: 16 / 2018: 23 / 2017: 25 / 2016: 26

Deadline not available

Award recipients will be selected based on their overall potential for research excellence, the degree to which their technical interests align with those of IBM, and their academic progress to - date, as evidenced by publications and endorsements from their faculty advisor and department head.
The university credential email addresses must be entered in the nomination form.
All nominations for the IBM PhD Fellowship must be submitted by faculty electronically over the web, on a standardized form to facilitate an open and uniform competition. No more than three nominations per department may be submitted.