Funder: NVIDIA
Due Dates (Anticipated): October 2027 (Application and recommendation letters)
Funding Amounts: Up to $60,000 per award for a nine-month academic year
Summary: Supports PhD research advancing accelerated computing, with opportunities to collaborate with NVIDIA researchers.
Key Information: Fellows must complete an in-person NVIDIA summer internship before the award year begins.
Description
The NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship supports doctoral research that advances accelerated computing and connects academic researchers with NVIDIA researchers and engineers. The program prioritizes work related to NVIDIA’s primary research domains, particularly research with the potential to influence the design, performance, or use of future GPUs. Funding and a required summer internship support the exchange of ideas and technology between academia and industry.
Research areas include generative AI, language models and speech, neural architectures and algorithms, AI software platforms, autonomous vehicles, computational imaging, computer vision, computer architecture, circuits, VLSI, and computer graphics. Other supported areas include healthcare and life sciences, networking and interconnects, parallel programming systems and algorithms, robotics, security and privacy, and quantum computing. Related fields are considered when applicants explain their connection to NVIDIA’s research domains.
