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