NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program

Recipients are selected based on their academic achievements, professor nomination, and area of research. They have found this program to be a great way to support academia in its pursuit of cutting edge innovation, as well as an ideal avenue to introduce NVIDIA to the future leaders of the industry.

NVIDIA has long believed that investing in university talent is beneficial to the industry and key to the continued growth and success. NVIDIA particularly invites submissions from students pushing the envelope in artificial intelligence, robotics, autonomous vehicles, and related fields. They select students each year who have the talent, aptitude and initiative to work closely with them early in their careers. Recipients not only receive crucial funding for their research, but are able to conduct groundbreaking work with access to NVIDIA products, technology and some of the most talented minds in the field. In addition, the Fellowship includes a summer internship preceding the Fellowship year.

NVIDIA partners with industry leaders to tackle some of the most complex computing challenges. They’re creating profound change in fields as diverse as medicine, space exploration, automotive design and film production. They’ve only scratched the surface of what they can accomplish when they apply the technology to it. They need innovative and talented doctoral students, who aren’t afraid of a challenge, to help them tackle these opportunities.

Benefits

• The NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program provides funding in the amount of up to $60,000 per award to PhD students who are researching topics that will lead to major advances in accelerated computing and its applications.

Eligibility Criteria

• International students are eligible to apply. Keep in mind, the Graduate Fellowship Award amount may vary by country, region or location.
• Students must have already completed their first year of PhD level studies (at the time of application).
• Students must have majors in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, System Architecture, Electrical Engineering, or a related area.
• Students must be engaged in active research as part of their PhD thesis.
• Students must be enrolled as a full time active PhD student during the 2024-2025 academic year (9 months) of the award – this means they should not be expecting to graduate sooner than May/June 2025.
• Students must be available to complete a summer internship (which due to COVID-19 may be held remotely) prior to the start of their Fellowship year.
• Students may not be immediate family of a current NVIDIA employee.
• Note: The award must be administered through the student’s university; payment will be made to the university, not directly to the student.

Evaluation Criteria

• Proposals Will be Evaluated for:
  • Student quality
    • Letters of recommendation
    • Academic performance (GPA) and achievements
  • Research quality
    • Research results to date
    • Research proposal for fellowship
    • Publication track record
  • Relevance to NVIDIA
    • How your work connects to NVIDIA’s primary research domains
    • How your research might influence the design, performance or use of future GPUs.

For more information, visit NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program.