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IBM PhD Fellowship for Groningen Computer Science PhD student

10 October 2013

Andrea Pagani, PhD student in computer science at the Graduate School of Science of the Groningen Faculty of Science and Engineering (formerly known as the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences), has been awarded a PhD fellowship by IBM. The IBM PhD award is a worldwide programme supporting PhD students with an exceptional talent for research in fields that are of interest to IBM and fundamental to innovation. Pagina is the only PhD student in the Benelux region to receive this award. He will receive a stipend of 20,000 dollars, enabling him to continue his PhD research at the Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science.

More information: Prof. Marco Aiello,
m.aiello rug.nl , tel. 050-363 3948, of the Distributed Systems group at the Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science.

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