Facebook Fellowship Program 2021
Facebook has announced a fully-funded fellowship for doctoral degree students of all years. For the award, applicants will be selected based on their research strength, letter of recommendation and publication record. During the fellowship, the applicants will receive a lot of benefits. So, PhD students from the computer science and engineering field must apply for the Facebook fellowship. The last date for the Facebook fellowship is 01 October 2020.
Facebook fellowship Details
Below is the complete detail about the Facebook fellowship given so that the interested candidates can easily apply without hindrance.
| country | USA |
| Degree | Doctoral degree |
| Last Date | 01 October 2020 |
| Winners announced | January 2021 |
Field of study offered
The Facebook Fellowship is being offered for the following doctoral degree programs
- Applied statistics
- AR/VR computer graphics
- AR/VR photonics and optics
- AR/VR future technologies
- Blockchain and crypto-economics
- Computational computer science
- Computer vision
- Database system
- Distributed system
- Economics and computation
- Energy-efficient video compression
- Instagram/Facebook app wellbeing & safety
- Machine learning
- Natural language processing
- Networking
- Privacy and data use
- Programming languages
- Security and privacy
- Social and economic policy
- Spoken language processing & audio classification
- Systems of machine learning
Eligibility criteria
The required criteria for the Facebook fellowship is:
- The applicants must be a PhD student
- Candidates from around the world can apply
- Students must be involved in the research from the topics mentioned above
- Candidates must be full-time students during the fellowship.
- Students must not receive any other scholarship funded by Facebook.
Facebook fellowship covers
During the fellowship, candidates will enjoy the following benefits
- Tuition fee (2 years)
- The annual stipend of $42,000
- Visit of Facebook headquarters for the annual fellowship summit
How to apply
- Candidates can apply from the given link (https://research.fb.com/fellowship/)
- Application must includes
- 500 words research summary
02 letter of recommendations (one from an academic advisor)
