Facebook Fellowship Program

Deadline: 28 February 2011
Open to: Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, System Architecture, or a related area PhD students
Fellowship: tuition fees and monthly stipend of $30.000

Every day Facebook confronts the most complex technical problems and we believe that close relationships with the academy will enable us to address many of these problems at a fundamental level and solve them.

* Computational Advertising
* Computer Vision
* Compiler Technology
* Computer Architecture
* Computer Networking
* Computer Security
* Databases
* Data Mining
* Distributed Computing
* Fault Tolerance
* Human-Computer Interaction
* Internet Economics
* Machine Learning
* Machine Translation
* Natural Language Processing
* Search
* Smart Datacenters
* Social Computing

Eligibility

* 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

Application

Fill in the online application, and do not forget to submit the following documents:
* 1-2 page research summary which the identification of the area of focus and applicability to Facebook
* Student’s CV (with email, phone and mailing address). Please include applicable coursework
* Minimum of 2 letters of recommendation (one must be from the faculty sponsor)
* The name and website/short bio of the faculty sponsor

Fellowship

The Fellowship includes:
· Tuition and fees will be paid for the academic year
· $30.000 stipend (paid over 9 months of the academic year)
· $5.000 per year toward conference attendance and travel
· $2,500 toward a personal computer
· Opportunity to apply for a paid summer internship
Please note that recipients are responsible for the taxation on any funds.

Contact

fellowships@careers.facebook.com

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