Google created the PhD Fellowship Program in 2009 to recognize and support outstanding graduate students who seek to influence the future of technology by pursuing exceptional research in computer science and related fields. Now in its twelfth year, these Fellowships have helped support approximately 500 graduate students globally in North America and Europe, Africa, Australia, East Asia, and India.
It is our ongoing goal to continue to support the academic community as a whole, and these Fellows as they make their mark on the world. We congratulate all of this year’s awardees!
Algorithms, Optimizations and Markets Jan van den Brand, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Mahsa Derakhshan, University of Maryland, College Park Sidhanth Mohanty, University of California, Berkeley
Computational Neuroscience Connor Brennan, University of Pennsylvania
Human Computer Interaction Abdelkareem Bedri, Carnegie Mellon University Brendan David-John, University of Florida Hiromu Yakura, University of Tsukuba Manaswi Saha, University of Washington Muratcan Cicek, University of California, Santa Cruz Prashan Madumal, University of Melbourne
Machine Learning Alon Brutzkus, Tel Aviv University Chin-Wei Huang, Universite de Montreal Eli Sherman, Johns Hopkins University Esther Rolf, University of California, Berkeley Imke Mayer, Fondation Sciences Mathématique de Paris Jean Michel Sarr, Cheikh Anta Diop University Lei Bai, University of New South Wales Nontawat Charoenphakdee, The University of Tokyo Preetum Nakkiran, Harvard University Sravanti Addepalli, Indian Institute of Science Taesik Gong, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Vihari Piratla, Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay Vishakha Patil, Indian Institute of Science Wilson Tsakane Mongwe, University of Johannesburg Xinshi Chen, Georgia Institute of Technology Yadan Luo, University of Queensland
Machine Perception, Speech Technology and Computer Vision Benjamin van Niekerk, University of Stellenbosch Eric Heiden, University of Southern California Gyeongsik Moon, Seoul National University Hou-Ning Hu, National Tsing Hua University Nan Wu, New York University Shaoshuai Shi, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Yaman Kumar, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology - Delhi Yifan Liu, University of Adelaide Yu Wu, University of Technology Sydney Zhengqi Li, Cornell University
Mobile Computing Xiaofan Zhang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Natural Language Processing Anjalie Field, Carnegie Mellon University Mingda Chen, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago Shang-Yu Su, National Taiwan University Yanai Elazar, Bar-Ilan
Privacy and Security Julien Gamba, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Shuwen Deng, Yale University Yunusa Simpa Abdulsalm, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University
Programming Technology and Software Engineering Adriana Sejfia, University of Southern California John Cyphert, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Quantum Computing Amira Abbas, University of KwaZulu-Natal Mozafari Ghoraba Fereshte, EPFL
Structured Data and Database Management Yanqing Peng, University of Utah
Systems and Networking Huynh Nguyen Van, University of Technology Sydney Michael Sammler, Saarland University, MPI-SWS Sihang Liu, University of Virginia Yun-Zhan Cai, National Cheng Kung University