Purdue University, West Lafayette has been invited to participate in the Google U.S./Canada PhD Fellowship Program for 2015.  Applications must be turned into the Graduate School Fellowships Office (fellowships@purdue.edu) no later than October 22, 2014, and if nominated by Purdue, Google plans to have final decisions announced in early February of 2015.  This earlier schedule will give students and faculty additional time to forecast their funding options for the upcoming year.

Each fellowship includes a cash gift (tuition/fees/stipend), a Google Research mentor and the opportunity to apply for in an internship at Google.

Google will be awarding approximately 14 unique fellowships from among the following:

· Google Fellowship in Market Algorithms

· Google Fellowship in Natural Language Processing

· Google Fellowship in Machine Learning

· Google Fellowship in Computer Security

· Google Fellowship in Distributed Computing

· Google Fellowship in Programming Technology

· Google Fellowship in Machine Translation

· Google Fellowship in Speech Technology

· Google Fellowship in Human Computer Interaction

· Google Fellowship in Cloud Computing

· Google Fellowship in Computer Architecture

· Google Fellowship in Structured Data Analysis

· Google Fellowship in Search and Information Retrieval

· Google Fellowship in Energy Aware Computing

· Google Fellowship in Mobile Computing

· Google Fellowship in Computer Vision

· Google Fellowship in Social Computing

· Google Fellowship in Computer Networking

· Google Fellowship in Systems Management

· Google Fellowship in Wearable Computing

· Google Fellowship in Statistics

· Google Fellowship in Computer Graphics

· Google Fellowship in Privacy

Purdue will be nominating two students for specific fellowship consideration.  Note that given that the fellowship areas overlap, Google may choose a different fellowship for the nominations.  Nominations and applications materials are due October 22, 2014 and all materials should be sent to fellowships@purdue.edu.

Please see the Google US/Canada PhD Fellowships Website for complete information on the program.  If you have any questions, please e-mail phdfellowship@google.com.

**Please note that students may not submit their own application to Google. Nominations and application materials must be submitted directly by the University.

• As a reminder, the materials required are:
  * student CV
  * transcript of current and previous academic records (we don't require official copies)
  * research/dissertation proposal (4-5 pages recommended, 8 pages maximum)
  * 2 letters of recommendation from those familiar with the student's work (at least one coming from the thesis advisor)
  * an optional introduction letter and third letter of recommendation may also be provided