Latest Google Ph.D. Fellowship Program for African Graduate Students 2022

The Google Africa PhD Fellowship directly assists graduate students as they pursue their PhD, as well as link them to the Google Research Mentor.

+ Latest Google Ph.D. Fellowship Program for African Graduate Students 2022

google phd fellowship 2022 recipients

Cultivating and maintaining strong relationships with the academic community is Google's top priority. The Google Africa Fellowship Program was created to recognize outstanding graduate students doing exceptional and innovative research in computer science and related fields. Fellowships support promising PhD candidates from all backgrounds who want to influence the future of technology. Google's mission is to promote comprehensive research communities and to encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply.

Benefits

Fellowship up to 3 years

US $ 30K to cover scholarships and other research activities, including travel expenses.

Google Research Mentor

Eligibility Criteria Fellowship Program for Google Africa PhD.

Students and professionals are welcome to apply for the PhD Fellowship Program. For current PhD students

Applicants must enroll in a full-time PhD program at a university in Africa. Applicants who are currently in their first year of a part-time PhD program and are moving to full-time positions are also welcome to apply.

Students must be early PhD students, meaning they must not be more than 1 year of their PhD. Applicants for the 2022 Fellowship may have started their program on or after January 1, 2022.

Students must be enrolled in the PhD program for the duration of the fellowship or be denied an award.

Applicants must have a PhD in computer science or related fields.

Google employees and family members of Google employees are not eligible.

Students who are already receiving another corporate fellowship are not eligible.

Cultivating and maintaining strong relationships with the academic community is Google's top priority. The Google Africa Fellowship Program was created to recognize outstanding graduate students doing exceptional and innovative research in computer science and related fields. Fellowships support promising PhD candidates from all backgrounds who want to influence the future of technology. Google's mission is to promote comprehensive research communities and to encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply .

Advertising for current undergraduate / master's students and professionals

Fellowship grants to this category of applicants are subject to their enrollment in a full-time PhD program at an African university within the calendar year of the award.

Student applicants must be enrolled in the African University as full-time undergraduate or master's students. Professionals must be employed / affiliated with an organization registered in Africa.

The Google Fellowship Award winner will have to decide whether to enroll in a full-time PhD program in computer science or related fields at an African university within the calendar year 2022, or the award will be forfeited.

Approval for a Google Fellowship does not mean admission to a university's PhD program. The recipient of the award must also complete the process of admission for PhD in the relevant institute / university where he / she wants to apply for PhD.

The Google Fellowship grant will be subject to the rules and guidelines applicable to the institute / university where one registers for the award-winning PhD program.

Google employees and family members of Google employees are not eligible.

The Google PhD Fellowship is a select group of students who have been recognized by Google researchers and their organizations as the world's most talented young educators. Fellowships are awarded to students who represent the future of research in the following fields.

Algorithms, optimization and marketing

Computational Neural and Cognitive Sciences

Health research

Human-computer interaction

Machine learning

Machine perception, speech technology and computer vision

Mobile computing

Natural language processing (including retrieval and extraction of information)

Privacy and security

Programming languages ​​and software engineering

Quantum computing

Recommended systems

Structured data and database management

Systems and Networking

Application deadline: 11:59:59 pm UTC-12 (AoE) 27 April 2022