Are you a Ph.D. student that’s interested in the social web and internet technology? Facebook has launched a new initiative, first announced today, called the “Facebook Fellowship Program”. The program is for Ph.D. students in the 2010-2011 school year, for students in specific topical areas. There is a $30K stipend paid over 9 month, as well as $5K per year for conference attendance and travel and $5K towards a personal computer (yes you’ll have a nice new computer for $5K).
Facebook is looking to recruit Ph.D. students focused on the following topics:
- Internet Economics
- Cloud Computing
- Social Computing
- Data Mining and Machine Learning
- Systems
- Information Retrieval
It’s an incredible opportunity for Ph.D. The application deadline is February 15th and recipients will be notified of their acceptance on March 29th. Applications will include a 1 to 2 page research summary. If you are interested in participating in the fellowship program, you can learn more via the Facebook Careers page. If I was a graduate student I would most definitely apply to this program!
im not even finish my Bachelor yet
Comment by laila — January 8, 2010 @ 6:49 pm
I'm going to tell all of my friends about this.
Comment by Carl Webb — January 16, 2010 @ 6:45 pm
hahaha cooool its better then nothing :d
Comment by Justin — October 10, 2010 @ 3:16 am
[...] Last time, Facebook looked for students doing research in only a handful of areas like cloud computing and Internet economics. For next year, many new areas of research have been added to the list, including computational advertising, computer security, and fault tolerance, among others. [...]
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