Posted by Susie Kim, Program Manager, University Relations

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

Posted by Susie Kim, Program Manager, University Relations

In 2009, Google created the PhD Fellowship Program to recognize and support outstanding graduate students who are doing exceptional research in Computer Science and related fields who seek to influence the future of technology. Now in its eleventh year, these Fellowships have helped support 450 graduate students globally in North America and Europe, Australia, Asia, Africa and India.

Every year, recipients of the Fellowship are invited to a global summit at our Mountain View campus, where they can learn more about Google’s state-of-the-art research, and network with Google’s research community as well as other PhD Fellows from around the world. Below we share some highlights from our most recent summit, and also announce the latest class of Google PhD Fellows.

Summit Highlights
At this year’s summit event, active Google Fellowship recipients were joined by special guests, FLIP (Diversifying Future Leadership in the Professoriate) Alliance Fellows. Research Director Peter Norvig opened the event with a keynote on the fundamental practice of machine learning, followed by a number of talks by prestigious researchers. Among the list of speakers were Research Scientist Peggy Chi, who spoke about crowdsourcing geographically diverse images for use in training data, Senior Google Fellow and SVP of Google Research and Health Jeff Dean, who discussed using deep learning to solve a variety of challenging research problems at Google, and Research Scientist Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, who presented the ethical implications of machine learning, especially around questions of fairness and accountability. See the complete list of insightful talks delivered by all speakers here.

Google and FLIP Alliance Fellows attending the 2019 PhD Fellowship Summit

Google Fellows had the opportunity to present their work in lightning talks to small groups with common research interests. In addition, Google and FLIP Alliance Fellows came together to share their work with Google researchers and each other during a poster session.

Poster session in full swing

2019 Google PhD Fellows
The Google PhD Fellows represent some of the best and brightest young computer science researchers from around the globe, and it is our ongoing goal to support them as they make their mark on the world. Congratulations to all of this year’s awardees! The complete list of recipients is:

Algorithms, Optimizations and Markets
Aidasadat Mousavifar, EPFL Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Peilin Zhong, Columbia University
Siddharth Bhandari, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Soheil Behnezhad, University of Maryland at College Park
Zhe Feng, Harvard University

Computational Neuroscience
Caroline Haimerl, New York University
Mai Gamal, Nile University

Human Computer Interaction
Catalin Voss, Stanford University
Hua Hua, Australian National University
Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, University of Melbourne

Machine Learning
Abdulsalam Ometere Latifat, African University of Science and Technology Abuja
Adji Bousso Dieng, Columbia University
Blake Woodworth, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Diana Cai, Princeton University
Francesco Locatello, ETH Zurich
Ihsane Gryech, International University Of Rabat, Morocco
Jaemin Yoo, Seoul National University
Maruan Al-Shedivat, Carnegie Mellon University
Ousseynou Mbaye, Alioune Diop University of Bambey
Redani Mbuvha, University of Johannesburg
Shibani Santurkar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Takashi Ishida, University of Tokyo

Machine Perception, Speech Technology and Computer Vision
Anshul Mittal, IIT Delhi
Chenxi Liu, Johns Hopkins University
Kayode Kolawole Olaleye, Stellenbosch University
Ruohan Gao, The University of Texas at Austin
Tiancheng Sun, University of California San Diego
Xuanyi Dong, University of Technology Sydney
Yu Liu, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Zhi Tian, University of Adelaide

Mobile Computing
Naoki Kimura, University of Tokyo

Natural Language Processing
Abigail See, Stanford University
Ananya Sai B, IIT Madras
Byeongchang Kim, Seoul National University
Daniel Patrick Fried, UC Berkeley
Hao Peng, University of Washington
Reinald Kim Amplayo, University of Edinburgh
Sungjoon Park, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Privacy and Security
Ajith Suresh, Indian Institute of Science
Itsaka Rakotonirina, Inria Nancy
Milad Nasr, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Sarah Ann Scheffler, Boston University

Programming Technology and Software Engineering
Caroline Lemieux, UC Berkeley
Conrad Watt, University of Cambridge
Umang Mathur, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Quantum Computing
Amy Greene, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Leonard Wossnig, University College London
Yuan Su, University of Maryland at College Park

Structured Data and Database Management
Amir Gilad, Tel Aviv University
Nofar Carmeli, Technion
Zhuoyue Zhao, University of Utah

Systems and Networking
Chinmay Kulkarni, University of Utah
Nicolai Oswald, University of Edinburgh
Saksham Agarwal, Cornell University

Posted by Susie Kim, Program Manager, University Relations

Google created the PhD Fellowship program in 2009 to recognize and support outstanding graduate students doing exceptional research in Computer Science and related disciplines. Now in its ninth year, our fellowship program has supported hundreds of future faculty, industry researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs.

Reflecting our continuing commitment to supporting and building relationships with the academic community, we are excited to announce the 39 recipients from North America, Europe and the Middle East. We offer our sincere congratulations to the 2018 Google PhD Fellows.

Algorithms, Optimizations and Markets
Emmanouil Zampetakis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Manuela Fischer, ETH Zurich CS
Thodoris Lykouris, Cornell University
Yuan Deng, Duke University

Computational Neuroscience
Ella Batty, Columbia University
Neha Spenta Wadia, University of California, Berkeley
Reuben Feinman, New York University

Human-Computer Interaction
Gierad Laput, Carnegie Mellon University
Mike Schaekermann, University of Waterloo
Minsuk (Brian) Kahng, Georgia Tech

Machine Learning
Aditi Raghunathan, Stanford University
Lin Chen, Yale University
Qian Yu, University of Southern California
Ravid Shwartz-Ziv, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Shuang Liu, University of California, San Diego
Stephen Tu, University of California, Berkeley
Xinchen Yan, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Zelda Mariet, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mobile Computing
Shilin Zhu, University of California, San Diego

Machine Perception, Speech Technology and Computer Vision
Antoine Miech, INRIA
Arsha Nagrani, University of Oxford (ES)
Joseph Redmon, University of Washington
Raymond Yeh, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Shanmukha Ramakrishna Vedantam, Georgia Tech

Natural Language Processing
Anne Cocos, University of Pennsylvania
Jonathan Herzig, Tel-Aviv University
Rotem Dror, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Yang Liu, The University of Edinburgh
Yoon Kim, Harvard University

Privacy and Security
Aayush Jain, University of California, Los Angeles

Programming Technology and Software Engineering
Gowtham Kaki, Purdue University, West Lafayette
Reyhaneh Jabbarvand, University of California, Irvine
Victor Lanvin, Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris

Quantum Computing
Erika Ye, California Institute of Technology

Structured Data and Database Management
Lingjiao Chen, University of Wisconsin

Systems and Networking
Andrea Lattuada, ETH Zurich CS
Lana Josipović, EPFL CS
Michael Schaarschmidt, University of Cambridge - Computer Laboratory
Rachee Singh, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Posted by Susie Kim, Program Manager, University Relations

Google created the PhD Fellowship program in 2009 to recognize and support outstanding graduate students doing exceptional research in Computer Science and related disciplines. Now in its ninth year, our fellowship program has supported hundreds of future faculty, industry researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs.

Reflecting our continuing commitment to supporting and building relationships with the academic community, we are excited to announce the 39 recipients from North America, Europe and the Middle East. We offer our sincere congratulations to the 2018 Google PhD Fellows.

Algorithms, Optimizations and Markets
Emmanouil Zampetakis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Manuela Fischer, ETH Zurich CS
Thodoris Lykouris, Cornell University
Yuan Deng, Duke University

Computational Neuroscience
Ella Batty, Columbia University
Neha Spenta Wadia, University of California, Berkeley
Reuben Feinman, New York University

Human-Computer Interaction
Gierad Laput, Carnegie Mellon University
Mike Schaekermann, University of Waterloo
Minsuk (Brian) Kahng, Georgia Tech

Machine Learning
Aditi Raghunathan, Stanford University
Lin Chen, Yale University
Qian Yu, University of Southern California
Ravid Shwartz-Ziv, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Shuang Liu, University of California, San Diego
Stephen Tu, University of California, Berkeley
Xinchen Yan, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Zelda Mariet, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mobile Computing
Shilin Zhu, University of California, San Diego

Machine Perception, Speech Technology and Computer Vision
Antoine Miech, INRIA
Arsha Nagrani, University of Oxford (ES)
Joseph Redmon, University of Washington
Raymond Yeh, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Shanmukha Ramakrishna Vedantam, Georgia Tech

Natural Language Processing
Anne Cocos, University of Pennsylvania
Jonathan Herzig, Tel-Aviv University
Rotem Dror, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Yang Liu, The University of Edinburgh
Yoon Kim, Harvard University

Privacy and Security
Aayush Jain, University of California, Los Angeles

Programming Technology and Software Engineering
Gowtham Kaki, Purdue University, West Lafayette
Reyhaneh Jabbarvand, University of California, Irvine
Victor Lanvin, Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris

Quantum Computing
Erika Ye, California Institute of Technology

Structured Data and Database Management
Lingjiao Chen, University of Wisconsin

Systems and Networking
Andrea Lattuada, ETH Zurich CS
Lana Josipović, EPFL CS
Michael Schaarschmidt, University of Cambridge - Computer Laboratory
Rachee Singh, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Posted by Susie Kim, Program Manager, University Relations

In 2009, Google created the PhD Fellowship Program to recognize and support outstanding graduate students doing exceptional research in Computer Science and related disciplines. Now in its ninth year, our Fellowships have helped support over 300 graduate students in Australia, China and East Asia, India, North America, Europe and the Middle East who seek to shape and influence the future of technology.

Recently, Google PhD Fellows from around the globe converged on our Mountain View campus for the second annual Global PhD Fellowship Summit. VP of Education and University Programs Maggie Johnson welcomed the Fellows and went over Google's approach to research and its impact across our products and services. The students heard talks from researchers like Ed Chi, Douglas Eck, Úlfar Erlingsson, Dina Papagiannaki, Viren Jain, Ian Goodfellow, Kevin Murphy and Galen Andrew, and got a glimpse into some of the state-of-the-art research pursued across Google.

Google Fellows attending the 2017 Global PhD Fellowship Summit

The event included a panel discussion with Domagoj Babic, Kathryn McKinley, Nina Taft, Roy Want and Sunny Colsalvo about their unique career paths in academia and industry. Fellows also had the chance to connect one-on-one with Googlers to discuss their research, as well as receive feedback from leaders in their fields in smaller deep dives and a poster event.

Fellows share their work with Google researchers during the poster session

Our PhD Fellows represent some the best and brightest young researchers around the globe in Computer Science and it is our ongoing goal to support them as they make their mark on the world.

We’d additionally like to announce the complete list of our 2017 Google PhD Fellows, including the latest recipients from China and East Asia, India, and Australia. We look forward to seeing each of them at next year’s summit!

2017 Google PhD Fellows

Algorithms, Optimizations and Markets
Chiu Wai Sam Wong, University of California, Berkeley
Eric Balkanski, Harvard University
Haifeng Xu, University of Southern California

Human-Computer Interaction
Motahhare Eslami, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Sarah D'Angelo, Northwestern University
Sarah Mcroberts, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Sarah Webber, The University of Melbourne

Machine Learning
Aude Genevay, Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris
Dustin Tran, Columbia University
Jamie Hayes, University College London
Jin-Hwa Kim, Seoul National University
Ling Luo, The University of Sydney
Martin Arjovsky, New York University
Sayak Ray Chowdhury, Indian Institute of Science
Song Zuo, Tsinghua University
Taco Cohen, University of Amsterdam
Yuhuai Wu, University of Toronto
Yunhe Wang, Peking University
Yunye Gong, Cornell University

Machine Perception, Speech Technology and Computer Vision
Avijit Dasgupta, International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad
Franziska Müller, Saarland University - Saarbrücken GSCS and Max Planck Institute for Informatics
George Trigeorgis, Imperial College London
Iro Armeni, Stanford University
Saining Xie, University of California, San Diego
Yu-Chuan Su, University of Texas, Austin

Mobile Computing
Sangeun Oh, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Shuo Yang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Natural Language Processing
Bidisha Samanta, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Ekaterina Vylomova, The University of Melbourne
Jianpeng Cheng, The University of Edinburgh
Kevin Clark, Stanford University
Meng Zhang, Tsinghua University
Preksha Nama, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Tim Rocktaschel, University College London

Privacy and Security
Romain Gay, ENS - École Normale Supérieure
Xi He, Duke University
Yupeng Zhang, University of Maryland, College Park

Programming Languages, Algorithms and Software Engineering
Christoffer Quist Adamsen, Aarhus University
Muhammad Ali Gulzar, University of California, Los Angeles
Oded Padon, Tel-Aviv University

Structured Data and Database Management
Amir Shaikhha, EPFL CS
Jingbo Shang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Systems and Networking
Ahmed M. Said Mohamed Tawfik Issa, Georgia Institute of Technology
Khanh Nguyen, University of California, Irvine
Radhika Mittal, University of California, Berkeley
Ryan Beckett, Princeton University
Samaneh Movassaghi, Australian National University

Posted by Michael Rennaker, Program Manager, University Relations

In 2009, Google created the PhD Fellowship Program to recognize and support outstanding graduate students doing exceptional research in Computer Science and related disciplines. Now in its eighth year, our Fellowships have helped support over 250 graduate students in Australia, China and East Asia, India, North America, Europe and the Middle East who seek to shape and influence the future of technology.

Recently, Google PhD Fellows from around the globe converged on our Mountain View campus for the first annual Global PhD Fellowship Summit. The students heard talks from researchers like Jeff Dean, Françoise Beaufays, Peter Norvig, Maya Gupta and Amin Vahdat, and got a glimpse into some of the state-of-the-art research pursued across Google.

Senior Google Fellow Jeff Dean shares how TensorFlow is used at Google

Fellows also had the chance to connect one-on-one with Googlers to discuss their research, as well as receive feedback from leaders in their fields. The event wrapped up with a panel discussion with Dan Russell, Kristen LeFevre, Douglas Eck and Françoise Beaufays about their unique career paths. Maggie Johnson concluded the Summit by sharing about the different types of research environments across academia and industry.

(Left) PhD Fellows share their work with Google researchers during the poster session (Right) Research panelists share their journeys through academia and industry

Our PhD Fellows represent some the best and brightest young researchers around the globe in Computer Science and it is our ongoing goal to support them as they make their mark on the world.

We’d also like to welcome the newest class of Google PhD Fellows recently awarded in China and East Asia, India, and Australia. We look forward to seeing each of them at next year’s summit!

2016 Global PhD Fellows

Computational Neuroscience
Cameron (Po-Hsuan) Chen, Princeton University
Grace Lindsay, Columbia University
Martino Sorbaro Sindaci, The University of Edinburgh

Human-Computer Interaction
Dana McKay, University of Melbourne
Koki Nagano, University of Southern California
Arvind Satyanarayan, Stanford University
Amy Xian Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Machine Learning
Olivier Bachem, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Tianqi Chen, University of Washington
Emily Denton, New York University
Kwan Hui Lim, University of Melbourne
Yves-Laurent Kom Samo, University of Oxford
Woosang Lim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Anirban Santara, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Daniel Jaymin Mankowitz, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Lucas Maystre, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Arvind Neelakantan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Ludwig Schmidt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Quanming Yao, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Shandian Zhe, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Machine Perception, Speech Technology and Computer Vision
Eugen Beck, RWTH Aachen University
Yu-Wei Chao, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Wei Liu, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Aron Monszpart, University College London
Thomas Schoeps, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Tian Tan, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Chia-Yin Tsai, Carnegie Mellon University
Weitao Xu, University of Queensland

Market Algorithms
Hossein Esfandiari, University of Maryland, College Park
Sandy Heydrich, Saarland University - Saarbrucken GSCS
Rad Niazadeh, Cornell University
Sadra Yazdanbod, Georgia Institute of Technology

Mobile Computing
Lei Kang, University of Wisconsin
Tauhidur Rahman, Cornell University
Chungkuk Yoo, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Yuhao Zhu, University of Texas, Austin

Natural Language Processing
Tamer Alkhouli, RWTH Aachen University
Jose Camacho Collados, Sapienza - Università di Roma

Privacy and Security
Chitra Javali, University of New South Wales
Kartik Nayak, University of Maryland, College Park
Nicolas Papernot, Pennsylvania State University
Damian Vizar, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Xi Wu, University of Wisconsin

Programming Languages, Algorithms and Software Engineering
Marcelo Sousa, University of Oxford
Arpita Biswas, Indian Institute of Science

Structured Data and Database Management
Xiang Ren, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Systems and Networking
Ying Chen, Tsinghua University
Andrew Crotty, Brown University
Aniruddha Singh Kushwaha, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Ilias Marinos, University of Cambridge
Kay Ousterhout, University of California, Berkeley
Hong Zhang, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology