The Facebook Fellowship Program is designed to support promising doctoral students who are engaged in innovative research related to computer science and engineering at an accredited university.
Applications are open to all full-time PhD students currently involved in ongoing research who are enrolled in an accredited university in any country. We encourage all people of diverse backgrounds and experiences to apply. Applications are evaluated based on the strength of the student’s research statement, publication record, and recommendation letters.
The Fellowship Award Includes:
Tuition and fees paid for the academic year (up to two years/four semesters)
A $42,000 annual stipend to cover living and conference travel costs
A paid visit to Facebook headquarters for the annual Fellowship Summit
Various opportunities to engage with Facebook researchers
Available Fellowships
■ Privacy and Data Use
■ Programming Languages
■ Security and Privacy
■ Social and Economic Policy
■ Spoken Language Processing
and Audio Classification
■ Systems for Machine Learning
■ Applied Statistics
■ AR/VR Computer Graphics
■ AR/VR Photonics and Optics
■ AR/VR Privacy and Ethics
■ Blockchain and Cryptoeconomics
■ Computational Social Science
■ Computer Vision
■ Database Systems
■ Distributed Systems
■ Economics and Computation
■ Energy Efficient Video
Compression
■ Instagram/FB App Well-being
and Safety
■ Machine Learning
■ Natural Language Processing
■ Networking
APPLICATIONS CLOSE OCTOBER 1, 2020
Applications for the 2021 Fellowship cohort open on August 10, 2020.
If you have any questions, reach out to academicrelations@fb.com
For more information, please visit www.research.fb.com/programs/fellowship