Google 2023 PhD Fellowship Program

Google 2023 PhD Fellowship Program  directly support graduate students as they pursue their PhD, as well as connect them to a Google Research Mentor. The Google PhD Fellowship Program was created to recognize outstanding graduate students doing exceptional and innovative research in areas relevant to computer science and related fields.

Fellowships support promising PhD candidates of all backgrounds who seek to influence the future of technology. Google’s mission is to foster inclusive research communities and encourages people of diverse backgrounds to apply. We currently offer Fellowships in Africa, Australia, Canada, East Asia, Europe, India, Latin America, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and the United States. The application deadline is May 11, 2023.

About Google 2023 PhD Fellowship Program

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 following fields:

• Algorithms, optimizations and markets
• Computational neural and cognitive sciences
• Health research
• Human-Computer interaction
• Machine learning
• Machine perception, speech technology and computer vision
• Mobile computing
• Natural language processing (including Information Retrieval and Extraction)
• Privacy and Security
• Programming Languages and Software Engineering
• Quantum computing
• Recommender systems
• Structured data and database management
• Systems and networking

What does the Google PhD Fellowship include?

Eligibility Requirements for the Google 2023 PhD Fellowship Program

Below is the eligibility requirements for all regions

• Students must remain enrolled full-time in the PhD program for the duration of the Fellowship or forfeit the award.
• Google employees, and their spouses, children, and members of their household are not eligible.
• Students that are already supported by a comparable industry award are not eligible. Government or non-profit organization funding is exempt.
• Past awardees from Australia and New Zealand, East Asia, India and Southeast Asia PhD Fellowship programs are not eligible to apply again.

Nominated students in Australia and New Zealand, East Asia, Europe, the United States and Canada

Universities should only nominate students that meet the following requirements:

• Australia and New Zealand: early-stage students enrolled in the first or second year of their PhD (no requirement for completion of graduate coursework by the academic award year).

• Canada, East Asia, Europe and the United States: students who have completed graduate coursework by the academic award year when the Fellowship begins.

Direct applicant students in Africa, India, Latin America and Southeast Asia

• Incoming PhD students are eligible to apply, but the Fellowship award shall be contingent on the awardee registering for a full-time PhD program in computer science (or an adjacent field) within the academic award year of the Fellowship award, or the award shall be forfeited.
  • Latin America: incoming or early stage-students enrolled in the first or second year of their PhD (no requirement for completion of graduate coursework by the academic award year).
• Grant of the Fellowship does not mean admission to a PhD program. The awardee must separately apply and be accepted to a PhD program in computer science (or an adjacent field) at an eligible institution.
• Grant of the Fellowship will be subject to the rules and guidelines applicable in the institution where the awardee registers for the PhD program.

How to Apply

Submission forms are available on the main Google PhD Fellowship Program page when the application period begins.

Africa, India, Latin America and Southeast Asia: students may apply directly during a region’s application period.

Australia, Canada, East Asia, Europe, New Zealand, and the United States: students cannot apply directly to the program; the eligibility university must nominate the students during a region’s application period.