IBM PhD Fellowship
Award awardees
For 70 years IBM has recognized and rewarded outstanding PhD students around the world through a highly competitive IBM PhD Fellowship Award program. The distinguished 2022 IBM PhD Fellowship Award recipients demonstrated expertise in pioneering research areas, such as artificial intelligence, hybrid cloud technology, quantum computing, data science, security, and the next generation of cutting-edge processors.
The 2022 IBM PhD Fellowship Award Program received hundreds of applications from 183 universities in 32 countries. Applications were reviewed by eminent technologists from across IBM. The award recipients demonstrated academic excellence as well as provided innovative, exceptional research proposals.
Akari Asai
University of Washington
United States
Bo Zhang
Columbia University in the City of New York
United States
Catherine Chen
University of California, Berkeley
United States
Charvi Rastogi
Carnegie Mellon University
United States
Ching-Yao Chuang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United States
Cora Coleman
University of California
San Diego
United States
Fabia Athena
Georgia Institute of Technology
United States
Fangzheng Xu
Carnegie Mellon University
United States
Ishtiyaque Ahmad
University of California
Santa Barbara
United States
Ka Ho Chow
Georgia Institute of Technology
United States
Lauren Alvarez
North Carolina State University
United States
Sam Cree
Stanford University
United States
Stefan Sack
Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Austria
Surbhi Mittal
Indian Institute of Technology
IIT Jodhpur
India
Yangruibo Ding
Columbia University in the City of New York
United States
Yongmo Park
University of Michigan-AnnArbor
United States
Yufeng Bright Ye
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United States
Zana Bucinca
Harvard University
United States
Zexue He
University of California
San Diego
United States
Ahmed Alquraan
University of Waterloo
Canada
Syrine Belakaria
Washington State University
United States
Eyal Ben-David
Technion Israel Institute of Technology
Israel
Tianlong Chen
University of Texas at Austin
United States
Shehzaad Dhuliawala
ETHZ - Federal Institute of
Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Scott Freitas
Georgia Institute of Technology
United States
Uma Girish
Princeton University
United States
Gabriel Gusmao
Georgia Institute of Technology
United States
Geraud Nangue Tasse
Wits University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
South Africa
Vikram Narayanan
University of California-Irvine
United States
Simbarashe Nyatsanga
University of California-Davis
United States
Soyun Park
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United States
Abhairaj Singh
Technische Universiteit Delft
Netherlands
Yudai Suzuki
Keio University
Japan
Silvana Trindade
Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Brazil
Pheona Williams
Howard University
United States
Amani Ahmad Al-Ahmadi
King Saud University
Saudi Arabia
Atri Bhattacharyya
EPFL - Federal Institute of
Technology Lausanne Switzerland
Stanley Alex Breitweiser
University of Pennsylvania
United States
Lijie Chen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United States
Yueqi Chen
Penn State University
United States
Andrew Cullen
Imperial College of Science
Technology Medicine London
United Kingdom
Alessandro de Palma
University of Oxford
United Kingdom
Leon Ding
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United States
Wenbo Guo
Penn State University
United States
Michael Hersche
ETHZ - Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Andy Huynh
Boston University
United States
Saurabh Jha
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
United States
Jungo Kasai
University of Washington, Seattle
United States
Corey Lammie
James Cook University
Australia
Theodor Lundberg
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom
Sujaya Maiyya
University of California, Santa Barbara
United States
Prakash Murali
Princeton University
United States
Jonas Pfeiffer
Technische Universitat Darmstadt
Germany
Sharon Qian
Harvard University
United States
Nidhi Rathi
Indian Institute of Science
India
Eddie Schoute
University of Maryland, College Park
United States
Eli Schwartz
Tel Aviv University
Israel
Arthur Selle Jacobs
Universidade Federal do Rio
Grande do Sul
Brazil
Gunjan Singh
Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology
India
Congratulations 2019 IBM PhD Fellows!
Manaar Alam
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Charlotte Boettcher
Harvard University
Junyu Cao
University of California, Berkeley
Ignacio Cases
Stanford University
Timon Gehr
ETHZ - Federal Institute of Technology Zuric
Dennis Grishin
Harvard University
Vojtech Havlicek
University of Oxford
Kei Kase
Waseda University
Marios Kogias
EPFL - Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
Song Liu
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Ellis Michael
Unniversity of Washington, Seattle
Nikolaos Papadis
Yale University
Anupam Sanghi
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Stacey Truex
Georgia Institute of Technology
Ellen Vitercik
Carnegie Mellon University
Pengcheng Yin
Carnegie Mellon University
Congratulations 2018 IBM PhD Fellows!
Zakaria Aldeneh
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Sarath Chandar Anbil Parthipan
University of Montreal
Saikrishna Badrinarayanan
University of California, Los Angeles
Maynard Marshall Ball
Columbia University
Shang-Tse Chen
Georgia Institute of Technology
Michael Coblenz
Carnegie Mellon University
Snigdha Das
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Hagit Grushka-Cohen
Ben-Gurion University
Rishab Goyal
University of Texas at Austin
Josiah Hanna
University of Texas at Austin
Yining Hu
University of New South Wales
Amir Kafshdar Goharshady
Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Eleftherios Kokoris-Kogias
EPFL - Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
Chun-Liang Li
Carnegie Mellon University
Tongyang Li
University of Maryland, College Park
Chaoxuan Ma
University of California, San Diego
Clemens Rosenbaum
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Sailik Sengupta
Arizona State University
Chad Spensky
University of California, Santa Barbara
Hasini Urala Liyanage Dona Gunasinghe
Purdue University
Gary Yeung
University of California, Los Angeles
Fan Zhang
Cornell University
Huan Zhang
University of California, Davis
Congratulations 2017 IBM PhD Fellows!
Iftekhar Ahmed
Oregon State University
Umair Ahmed
Indian Institute of Technology - IIT Kanpur
Khalid Al Khatib
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Arturs Backurs
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Radu Baltean-Lugojan
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London
Sarah Adel Bargal
Boston University
Maruf Bhuiyan
Yale University
Tathagata Chakraborti
Arizona State University
Michael Coblenz
Carnegie Mellon University
Gal Dalal
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Jose Manuel del Pino Fernández
Universidad Europea de Madrid
Tesca Fitzgerald
Georgia Institute of Technology
Shruti Gandhi
North Carolina State University
Badih Ghazi
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ahmed Elgohary Ghoneim
University of Maryland College Park
Hagit Grushka-Cohen
Ben-Gurion University
Hui Guan
North Carolina State University
Zhiting Hu
Carnegie Mellon University
Oana Inel
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Cristina Kadar
ETHZ - Federal Institute of Technology Zürich
Elias Khalil
Georgia Institute of Technology
Eleftherios Kokoris-Kogias
EPFL - Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
Jie Liu
Lehigh University
Pengfei Liu
Fudan University
Huoran Li
Peking University
Jiajia Li
Georgia Institute of Technology
Eduardo Luz
Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto
Lingjuan Lyu
University of Melbourne
Keisuke Maeda
Hokkaido University
Pascal Nieters
Universität Osnabrück
Sikhar Patranabis
Indian Institute of Technology - IIT Kharagpur
Liat Peterfreund
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Max Plauth
Universität Potsdam
Neelam Prabhu Gaunkar
Iowa State University
Ankur Sarker
University of Virginia
Nandakumar Sasidharan Rajalekshmi
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Neha Sengupta
Indian Institute of Technology - IIT Delhi
Sonia Soubam
Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (IIIT-D)
Emma Strubell
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Harish Sukhwani
Duke University
Uttam Thakore
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Michael Võssing
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Robert Walecki
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London
Yichen Wang
Georgia Institute of Technology
Zhe Wan
University of California-Los Angeles
Yong Yang
Peking University
Jialun Yin
Tsinghua University
Theodore Yoder
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wenting Zheng
University of California-Berkeley
Shuo Zhou
University of Melbourne
Congratulations 2016 IBM PhD Fellows!
Iftekhar Ahmed
Oregon State University
Jun Araki
Carnegie Mellon University
Arturs Backurs
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Masoud Badiei Khuzani
Harvard University
Mossaab Bagdouri
University of Maryland College Park
Silvina Caino
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - University Carlos III, Madrid
William Candela
Pontifícia Universidade Católica
Dai Wang-Zhou
Nanjing University
David Dov
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Anca Dumitrache
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - Vrije University, Amsterdam
Anca Dumitrache
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - Vrije University, Amsterdam
Glauber Gonçalves
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Nanbo Gong
Yale University
Soehnke Grams
Universität Koblenz-Landau - University of Koblenz-Landau
Hui Guan
North Carolina State University
Jia Tong
Peking University
Mark Law
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London
Changchang Liu
Princeton University
Bernhard Loitsch
Technische Universität München - Technical University of Munich
Mario Lucic
ETHZ - Federal Institute of Technology Zürich
Suman Kalyan Maity
Indian Institute of Technology - IIT Kharagpur
Lee Martie
University of California-Irvine
Kuldeep Meel
Rice University
Mahya Mirzaei Poueinag
University of Technology, Sydney
Tanushree Mitra
Georgia Institute of Technology
Thien Nguyen
New York University
Deepak Mishra
Indian Institute of Technology - IIT Delhi
Gianluca Panici
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sikhar Patranabis
Indian Institute of Technology - IIT Kharagpur
Bruno Umbria Pedroni
University of California-San Diego
Alexander Ponomarenko
Higher School of Economics
Neelam Prabhu Gaukar
Iowa State University
Cosmin Radoi
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mrinmaya Sachan
Carnegie Mellon University
Joshua San Miguel
University of Toronto
Thomas Schlegl
Medizinische Universität Wien - Medical University of Vienna
Neha Sengupta
Indian Institute of Technology - IIT Delhi
Ioannis Sfakianakis
University of Crete, Heraklion
Sonia Soubam
Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (IIIT-D)
Christian Stab
Technische Universitãt Darmstadt - Technical University of Darmstadt
Harish Sukhwani
Duke University
Pailla Tejaswy
University of California-San Diego
Shay Vargaftik Technion
Israel Institute of Technology
Michael Võssing
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Tim Waizenegger
Universitãt Stuttgart - University of Stuttgart
Sean Wilner
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Christine Wolf
University of California-Irvine
Bin Xu
Cornell University
Jialun Yin
Tsinghua University
Noga Zaslavsky
Hebrew University
Xiao Zhang
Xi'an Jiaotong University
Rong Zhu
Harbin Institute of Technology