Nurturing and maintaining strong relations with the academic community is a top priority at Google. The Google India PhD Fellowship Program has been created to support and recognize outstanding students pursuing PhD level studies in Computer Science and related areas
We are excited to announce the awardees for this year's Google India PhD Fellowships.
Abir De, Google India Fellowship in Social Computing (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
Debarghya Ghoshdastidar, Google India Fellowship in Statistical Learning Theory (Indian Institute of Science)
Shahbaz Khan, Google India Fellowship in Algorithms (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)
Harikrishna Narasimhan, Google India Fellowship in Machine Learning (Indian Institute of Science)
Rajvi Shah, Google India Fellowship in Computer Vision (International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad)
These five awardees are among the 39 students awarded this year under the Google PhD Fellowship Program from around the world. This is the global announcement.
We received 63 applications for India which went through a detail technical review by Google researchers and engineers to decide the awardees. The awardees represent the most promising group of young computer scientists in India and Google India wishes them all the best for their research.
The fellowship recipients will be supported for a maximum period of four years with a monthly fellowship, a contingency grant for expenses like books, stationery etc and a travel grant for both the recipient and his/her advisor(s) for attending conferences.
Each fellowship recipient will be assigned a Google Sponsor who will mentor the PhD fellow over the research period. Engagement with the Google Sponsor will include discussions on research direction and progress updates.
Posted by Ashwani Sharma, University Programs Lead for Engineering
