Nationally Competitive Industry Graduate Fellowships & Research Internships

Below is a list of competitive industry graduate fellowships and research internships for MS and PhD students. The majority have deadlines ranging from September to January and require institutional nomination/assistance.

Adobe Research
Adobe Research is a team of world-class research scientists, engineers, artists, and designers uniting cutting-edge academic discovery with industry impact. We shape experimental ideas into innovative technologies for Adobe’s products, building the company’s reputation as a pioneer in content and data intelligence. Our team collaborates with colleagues at universities around the world, presenting publications at international conferences. Explore our research areas below to learn more about Adobe Research’s work.

Apply at: Adobe Research Internships / Adobe GEM Fellowship

Google PhD Fellowship Program
Google PhD Fellowships directly support graduate students as they pursue their PhD, as well as connect them to a Google Research Mentor.  Google PhD Fellowship students are a select group recognized by Google researchers and their institutions as some of the most promising young academics in the world. The Fellowships are awarded to students who represent the future of research in the fields listed below. Note that region-specific research areas will be listed in application forms during the application window.   The fellowships are awarded to students who represent the future of research in the following fields:

  • Computer Architecture
  • Algorithms and Optimization
  • Health Research
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Machine Learning and ML Foundations
  • Machine Perception
  • Natural Language Processing 
  • Privacy, Safety, and Security
  • Quantum Computing
  • Software Engineering and Prramming Languages
  • Systems, Networking, and Cloud Computing

Apply at: Google PhD Fellowship Program

IBM Fellowship Program
The IBM PhD Fellowship Awards Program is an intensely competitive worldwide program, which honors exceptional PhD students who want to make their mark in promising and disruptive technologies. Focus areas include the following topics of particular interest:

  • Semiconductor Technology
  • Quantum Computing
  • Multi-Cloud Computing and Hybrid Cloud Platforms for AI
  • Security
  • Exploratory AI Science
  • Foundation Models (FMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • Trustworthy AI
  • Responsible Computing

Apply at: IBM Fellowship Program

Jane Street Graduate Research Fellowship

The Jane Street Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) supports exceptional doctoral students currently pursuing a PhD in computer science, mathematics, physics, or statistics.

At Jane Street, we take a rigorous, quantitative approach to trading on global markets, combining techniques from machine learning, distributed systems, programmable hardware, statistics, and applied mathematics. Our culture is steeped in games, puzzles, and challenging problems. With the Graduate Research Fellowship, we’re excited to support PhD students who share our values: technical excellence, intellectual curiosity, and humility.

Apply at: Jane Street Gradudate Research Fellowship

J.P. Morgan AI Research Awards
The J.P. Morgan AI Research Awards empower the best research thinkers across AI today – helping them to achieve their goals tomorrow. Our company is a leader in applying AI and Data Analytics to make life easier for our clients and businesses. This is only possible by partnering with the brightest research minds.

We aim to advance cutting-edge AI research to solve real-world problems. To help us achieve this, we establish and support partnerships in research and innovation between university faculty and J.P. Morgan.

We look for exceptional talent: those who have the skills and imagination to potentially transform the way we live and work, and change our industry. We want to energize those who are on a journey, who seek to experiment and challenge and who are at the vanguard of shaping all our futures.

Apply at: J.P. Morgan AI Research Awards (paused as of 2023)

Meta Research PhD Fellowship Program
The Meta Research PhD Fellowship Program is a global program designed to encourage and support promising doctoral students who are engaged in innovative and relevant research in areas related to computer science and engineering at an accredited university.  Applications are evaluated based on the strength of the student’s research statement, research impact, and recommendation letters. 

Winners of the Fellowship are entitled to receive two years of paid tuition and fees, a $42,000 annual stipend to cover living and conference travel costs, a paid visit to Facebook headquarters for the annual Fellowship Summit, and various opportunities to engage with Facebook researchers.

Apply at: Meta Research PhD Fellowship Progam (paused as of 2023)

Microsoft PhD Fellowship
The Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship is a global program that identifies and empowers the next generation of exceptional computing research talent. Microsoft recognizes the value of diversity in computing and aims to increase the pipeline of talent receiving advanced degrees in computing-related fields to build a stronger and inclusive computing-related research community.

Apply at: Microsoft PhD Fellowship (paused as of 2023)

National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship
Since program inception, over 4,700 fellowships have been awarded and over 70,000 applications received. DoD plans to award new three-year graduate fellowships each fiscal year (subject to the availability of funds) to individuals who have demonstrated ability and special aptitude for advanced training in science and engineering.

Apply at: NDSEG Fellowship

NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship
NVIDIA has long believed that investing in university talent is beneficial to the industry and key to our continued growth and success. The NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program provides funding in the amount of up to $60,000 per award to PhD students who are researching topics that will lead to major advances in accelerated computing and its applications. NVIDIA particularly invites submissions from students pushing the envelope in artificial intelligence, robotics, autonomous vehicles, and related fields. We select students each year who have the talent, aptitude and initiative to work closely with us early in their careers. Recipients not only receive crucial funding for their research, but are able to conduct groundbreaking work with access to NVIDIA products, technology and some of the most talented minds in the field. In addition, the Fellowship includes a mandatory in-person summer internship preceding the Fellowship year.

Apply at: NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship

Two Sigma PhD Fellowship

Two Sigma’s PhD Fellowship is open to all doctoral students who are expanding frontiers in a STEM field such as statistics, applied mathematics, computer science, and physics.

  • Fellowship recipients will receive an award for two consecutive Academic years (not to exceed $75,000 USD per Academic year) to cover tuition and fees plus a stipend for living expenses, paid directly to the university. 
  • Fellowship recipients will also receive a one-time award of $10,000 USD paid to the Fellowship recipient directly which, as a condition of the fellowship, may only be used for tuition, fees required to enroll at or attend their university, and/or books, supplies, equipment, and course-related fees for courses at their university.
  • Runners-up will receive a one-time award of $10,000 USD paid to the Fellowship recipient directly which, as a condition of the fellowship, may only be used for tuition, fees required to enroll at or attend their university, and/or books, supplies, equipment, and course-related fees for courses at their university.
  • A Two Sigma Research Mentor will be assigned to the Fellowship recipient and Runners-up.

Apply at: Two Sigma PhD Fellowship