Organized by:Facebook

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.