NVIDIA invites Applications for $50,000 Graduate Fellowship Awards

With an objective to bring together the world’s brightest minds and the latest GPU technology leads to powerful research breakthrough NVIDIA is taking applications for the 19th annual NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program, seeking students doing outstanding GPU-based research. The goal is to: Provide them with grants, mentors and technical support so that they can help solve the world’s biggest research problems.

NVIDIA spoke person said, “We’re especially seeking doctoral students working in artificial intelligence, machine learning, autonomous vehicles, robotics, AI for healthcare, high-performance computing and related fields. Our Graduate Fellowship awards are up to $50,000 per student.”

Since its inception in 2002, the Graduate Fellowship Program has awarded over 160 grants worth nearly $5 million. Now, the company is looking for students who have completed their first year of Ph.D.-level studies at the time of application. Candidates need to be studying computer science, computer engineering, system architecture, electrical engineering or a related area. Applicants must also be investigating innovative ways to use GPUs.

The NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program for the 2020-2021 academic year is open to applicants worldwide. The deadline for submitting applications is Sept. 13, 2019. An internship at NVIDIA proceeding the fellowship year is now mandatory - eligible candidates should be available for the internship in summer 2020.