IBM PhD Fellowship Awards
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IBM PhD Fellowship
Award awardees
Since 1951, IBM has recognized and rewarded outstanding PhD students around the world through a highly competitive IBM PhD Fellowship Award program. The distinguished 2023 IBM PhD Fellowship Award recipients demonstrated expertise in pioneering research areas, including Artificial Intelligence, Hybrid Cloud, Security, Quantum Computing and Responsible and Inclusive Technology.
The 2023 IBM PhD Fellowship Award Program received hundreds of applications from 59 universities in 14 countries. Applications were reviewed by eminent technologists from across IBM. The award recipients demonstrated academic excellence as well as provided innovative, exceptional research proposals.
Sajant Anand
University of California-Berkeley
United States
Yonggan Fu
Georgia Institute of Technology
United States
Tianyu Gao
Princeton University
United States
Grace Guo
Georgia Institute of Technology
United States
Ankita Gupta
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
United
States
Taylor Olson
Northwestern University
United States
Megha Srivastava
Stanford University
United States
Lixu Wang
Northwestern University
United States
Zhanghao Wu
University of California-Berkeley
United States
Lijun Zhang
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
United
States
Ishtiyaque Ahmad
University of California
Santa Barbara
United States
Lauren Alvarez
North Carolina State University
United States
Akari Asai
University of Washington
United States
Fabia Athena
Georgia Institute of Technology
United States
Yufeng Bright Ye
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United States
Zana Bucinca
Harvard University
United States
Catherine Chen
University of California, Berkeley
United States
Ka Ho Chow
Georgia Institute of Technology
United States
Ching-Yao Chuang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United
States
Cora Coleman
University of California
San Diego
United States
Sam Cree
Stanford University
United States
Yangruibo Ding
Columbia University in the City of New York
United
States
Zexue He
University of California
San Diego
United
States
Surbhi Mittal
Indian Institute of Technology
IIT
Jodhpur
India
Yongmo Park
University of Michigan-AnnArbor
United States
Charvi Rastogi
Carnegie Mellon University
United States
Stefan Sack
Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Austria
Fangzheng Xu
Carnegie Mellon University
United States
Bo Zhang
Columbia University in the City of New York
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