The IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Awards Program is an intensely competitive worldwide program, which honors exceptional Ph.D. students who have an interest in solving problems that are important to IBM and fundamental to innovation in many academic disciplines and areas of study. These include: computer science and engineering (including cyber security and cloud computing), electrical and mechanical engineering, physical sciences (including chemistry, material sciences, and physics), mathematical sciences (including analytics of massive scale data with uncertainty, operations research, and optimization), public sector and business sciences (including urban policy and analytics, social technologies, learning systems and natural language understanding), and service science, management, and engineering (SSME). Additionally, IBM pays special attention to an array of focus areas.
Students are nominated by the department for this award.
Year |
Awardees |
1980-81 |
Robert Fowler |
1981-82 |
Patricia Jacobson |
1982-83 |
Ephraim Glinert |
1983-84 |
Ephraim Glinert, Lief Nielsen |
1984-85 |
Lief Nielsen |
1985-86 |
Anne Condon, Norman Hutchinson |
1986-87 |
Anne Condon |
1987-88 |
Kevin Jeffay , Tak Lam |
1988-89 |
Bill Griswold, Kevin Jeffay |
1989-90 |
Tom Anderson, Bill Griswold, Magda Konstantinidou |
1990-91 |
Tom Anderson, Bill Griswold, Magda Konstantinidou |
1991-92 |
Tod Amon |
1992-93 |
Radhika Thekkath |
1993-94 |
Hugues Hoppe, Radhika Thekkath |
1994-95 |
Gun Sirer |
1995-96 |
Darren Cronquist, Gun Sirer |
1997-98 |
Michael Ernst, Robert Grimm |
1998-99 |
Eric Anderson, Michael Ernst, Robert Grimm |
1999-2000 |
Eric Anderson, Michael Ernst, Zachary Ives |
2000-2001 |
Eric Anderson |
2002-2003 |
Matt Richardson |
2007-2008 |
Sangyun Hahn |
2008-2009 |
Anna Cavender |
2010-2011 |
Dang-Trinh Huynh-Ngoc, Brandon Lucia |
2013-2014 |
Adriana Szekeres, IBM PhD Scholarship |