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A curated list of fellowships for graduate students in Computer Science and related fields.

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Computer Science Awards, Scholarships, & Fellowships

A curated list of fellowships and scholarships for graduate students in Computer Science and related fields. List created by Chinasa T. Okolo, a Computer Science PhD student at Cornell. Feel free to fork and make pull requests with new opportunities!

The best way to receive funding is through your respective graduate programs. Most reputable PhD programs provide full funding through a teaching assistantship (TA), research assistantship (RA), or university fellowship. ProFellow has a great list of fully-funded PhD programs in Computer Science here. As you progress throughout your programs, you may find additional sources of funding helpful to travel to conferences, focus on your research without teaching commitments, or to upgrade your equipment. Definitely take advantage of these opportunities below by applying to scholarships and/or fellowships:

Awards

Name Deadline Masters/PhD
ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Rolling PhD
ACM SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award December PhD
ACM SIGKDD Outstanding Dissertation Award Rolling PhD
Ackermann Award July PhD
EATCS Distinguished Dissertation Award December PhD
IEEE ITS Best Dissertation Award June PhD
John C. Reynolds Doctoral Dissertation Award January PhD
Nature Research Awards for Inspiring and Innovating Science June Post-PhD
Rising Stars in Machine Learning August PhD
WAGS/ProQuest Innovation in Technology Award October PhD

Scholarships

Name Deadline Masters/PhD
Generation Google Scholarship December Both
Google Women Techmakers Scholarship December Both
Intel Scholarship December Both
NANOG Scholarship Varies Both
National Society of Black Engineers Varies Both
Oracle Academy Varies Both
Society of Women Engineers Varies Both
Wade Scholarship Program Varies Masters

Fellowships

Name Deadline Masters/PhD Citizenship Nomination
AAUW American Fellowships November PhD
ACM SIGHPC / Intel Computational & Data Science Fellowship April Both
ACM-IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship May PhD
Adobe Fellowship September Both
Air Force Science & Technology Fellowship Program Rolling Postdoc
Apple Scholars in AI/ML October PhD Internal Nomination
Bloomberg Data Science Fellowship April PhD
Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) Program TBD Post-PhD
Congressional Innovation Scholars Program February PhD
Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Graduate Fellowships (CSGrad4US) April PhD
Data Fluencies Dissertation Grants March PhD
Datminr Diversity in AI for Good Fellowship December PhD
DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship January PhD
Facebook Fellowship Program and Emerging Scholar Awards October PhD
Fatima Fellowship October Pre-PhD
Ford Foundation Fellowship Program January PhD
Frontera Computational Science Fellowship February PhD
GEM Fellowship Program November Both
Google PhD Fellowship December PhD Internal Nomination
Graduate Fellowships for STEM Diversity (GFSD) December PhD
Hertz Fellowship October PhD
HRT Hail Fellowship December PhD
IBM Masters Fellowship October Masters
IBM Ph.D. Fellowship October PhD
Jane Street Graduate Research Fellowship December PhD
John von Neumann Fellowship November Postdoc
Link Foundation Fellowship January PhD
Microsoft Ada Lovelace Fellowship September PhD Internal Nomination
Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship Program September PhD Internal Nomination
Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship Program September Faculty
MIT METEOR Postdoctoral Fellowship Program June Postdoc
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship December PhD
NPSC Fellowship December Both
NVIDIA Fellowship September PhD
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship October Both
Open Phil AI Fellowship October PhD
Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans November Both
PEO Scholar Award November PhD
Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship October PhD
Roblox PhD Fellowship August PhD
SCGSR Program May PhD
Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future Fellowship November PhD
Schmidt Science Fellows May Postdoc Internal Nomination
Schmidt Futures AI2050 Fellows Varies Early Career Nomination
Simons Fellows in Mathematics September PhD
Siebel Scholars (Open to select schools) July PhD
SMART Scholarship for Service Program December Both
Snap Research Fellowship & Scholarship Program December PhD
Symantec Research Labs Graduate Fellowship December PhD
Twitter PhD Research Fellowship December PhD
Two Sigma PhD Fellowship November PhD
Two Sigma Diversity PhD Fellowship November PhD

Resources for Applying to Fellowships

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Application Tips

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