Facebook Fellowship Deadline: 6 January 2015 OVERVIEW: Facebook plans to award up to twelve (12) academic fellowships to doctoral candidates focusing in areas relevant to Facebook, including, without limitation, architecture, computer vision, data mining, databases, distributed systems, economics and computation, human-computer interaction, social computing, machine learning, natural language processing, networking, operating systems, programming languages, compilers, security, privacy, and software engineering ELIGIBILITY: This Program is open to individuals who are enrolled full-time, as defined by the individual’s university, and in good standing at an appropriately accredited doctoral program. You are not eligible to participate in this Program if you are a national or legal resident of those countries in which the United States has embargoed goods (including, without limitation, Cuba, North Korea, Iran, and Syria, unless you are enrolled full-time at an accredited university in the United States or a non-embargoed country, with the exception of nationals and legal residents of Cuba, who are unconditionally ineligible to participate). AWARD: Each Award recipient will receive the following: + Tuition and fees for the Award recipient’s doctoral program for the 9 months of the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 academic years. + A grant in the amount of $37,000 USD provided in the form of a check or wire transfer for each year of the award. + Paid visit to Facebook HQ to present your research + Opportunity for paid internship HOW to APPLY: To apply, eligible individuals must submit the following materials to Facebook at facebook/careers/program/Fellowship2014/, or email a Word or PDF file of the Application to facebookfellowship@fb with the subject line “Fellowship Program Application”: + Curriculum Vitae + Letters of Reference: Application must include the name and contact information of two (2) people who will be providing letters of reference on behalf of the applicant. The letters of reference should address the applicant’s skills and character and why the applicant deserves to receive the Award. One (1) letter of reference must be from the applicant’s current doctoral program advisor. All letters must be submitted by the references by the Application due date. + Research Proposal: Application must include a one (1) to two (2) page (single-spaced, 12 point Times New Roman font, one (1) inch margins) research proposal in your Field of study. Research proposals will be reviewed, subject to the two (2) page limit, and any page(s) submitted in excess of the two (2) page limit may not be read. Additionally, the Research Proposal must clearly identify the area of focus and applicability of anticipated research to Facebook. + Research Area: The research proposal must address the applicant’s PhD research area. + Transcript (OPTIONAL): Application may also include transcripts from any/all post-secondary educational institutions that the applicant has attended. To start your application, please click here: https://facebook/careers/program/Fellowship2014/apply/ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Please click here to read the Terms and Conditions [https://fbcdn-dragon-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/t39.2365-6/10734298_1545798568971265_2012014504_n.pdf] for the Facebook Fellowship program
Posted on: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 03:00:00 +0000
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