Facebook Fellowship for PhD Students (Domestic and International): Deadline January 5, 2015

Welcome to the Facebook Fellowship Application Page

We are excited to announce that we have expanded the Facebook Fellowship Award to cover two years!

The Fellowship Program is open to full-time PhD students (domestic and international) enrolled during the current academic year and studying computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system architecture, or a related area.

Each Facebook Fellowship includes several benefits:

• Tuition and fees will be paid for the academic year(s)
• $37,000 yearly grant
• Paid visit to Facebook HQ to present your research
• Opportunity for paid internship

Fellowship Research Areas

• Architecture
• Data Mining
• Databases
• Distributed Systems
• Computer Vision
• Human-Computer Interaction & Social Computing
• Economics and Computation
• Machine Learning
• Natural Language Processing
• Networking & Operating Systems
• Programming Languages & Compilers
• Security & Privacy
• Software Engineering

Required application materials:

• Research Summary
  1-2 page research summary, which clearly identifies the area of focus and applicability of anticipated research to Facebook.
• Resume or CV
• Two email contacts for a letter of recommendation:
  1. Advisor
  2. Professional reference (can be from academia or industry)

Application Deadline

Applications open on Monday, October 20, 2014 at 9:00am
Completed applications are due by Monday, January 5, 2015 at 11:59pm
(Applications may be saved and edited up until application deadline)

Facebook Fellowship Rules

Read the Terms and Conditions for the Facebook Fellowship program

For Application, visit https://www.facebook.com/careers/program/Fellowship2014/

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