The Facebook Fellowship program provides awards to PhD candidates conducting research on important topics across computer science and engineering, such as computer vision, programming languages, computational social science, and more. Recipients of the award receive tuition and fees paid for up to two academic years and a stipend of $42,000, which includes conference travel support.
The Fellows are also invited to Facebook HQ in Menlo Park to attend the annual Fellowship Summit. This summit serves as an opportunity for Fellows to network with the rest of their cohort, share their research, and learn more about what researchers at Facebook are working on. As in 2020, we will host the summit virtually this year.
The program is now in its 10th year and has supported more than 144 PhD candidates from a broad range of universities. This year, we received 2,163 applications from over 100 universities worldwide, and we selected 26 outstanding Fellows from 19 universities.
Congratulations to this year’s winners, and thank you to everyone who took the time to submit an application.
2021 Facebook Fellows
Applied statistics
Hsiang Hsu
Harvard University
Finalists: Ayush Jain, University of California San Diego; Hanyu Song, Duke University
AR/VR photonics and optics
Prachi Tureja
California Institute of Technology
Finalists: Nathan Tessema Ersumo, University of California, Berkeley; Geun Ho Ahn, Stanford University; Christina Maria Spaegele, Harvard University
AR/VR future technologies
Logan Clark
University of Virginia
Caitlin Morris
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Finalists: Dishita Turakhia, MIT; Adam Williams, Colorado State University; Feiyu Lu, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)
Blockchain and cryptoeconomics
Yan Ji
Cornell University
Finalists: Vibhaalakshmi Sivaraman, MIT; Itay Tsabary, Technion — Israel Institute of Technology
Computational social science
Manoel Horta Ribeiro
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Finalists: Kelsey Gonzalez, University of Arizona; Marianne Aubin Le Quere, Cornell University
AR/VR computer graphics
Cheng Zhang
University of California, Irvine
Liang Shi
MIT
Finalist: Joey Litalien, McGill University
Computer vision
Shuang Li
MIT
Xingyi Zhou
University of Texas at Austin
Finalists: Xinshuo Weng, Carnegie Mellon University; Yunzhu Li, MIT; Jiayuan Mao, MIT; Yinpeng Dong, Tsinghua University
Distributed systems
Yunhao Zhang
Cornell University
Finalists: Vikram Narayanan, University of California, Irvine; Ahmed Alquraan, University of Waterloo
Economics and computation
Andrés Ignacio Cristi Espinosa
Universidad de Chile
Finalist: Hanrui Zhang, Duke University
Networking
Jiaxin Lin
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Finalists: Siva Kesava Reddy Kakarla, University of California, Los Angeles; Junzhi Gong, Harvard University; Fabian Ruffy Varga, New York University (NYU)
Programming languages
Yuanbo Li
Georgia Institute of Technology
Finalists: Jenna Wise, Carnegie Mellon University; Victor A. Ying, MIT
Security and privacy
Jiaheng Zhang
University of California, Berkeley
Marina Minkin
University of Michigan
Finalists: Lillian Yow Tsai, MIT; Praneeth Vepakomma, MIT; Alexander Bienstock, NYU; Amrita Roy Chowdhury, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Trishita Tiwari, Cornell University; Harjasleen Malvai, Cornell University; Jiameng Pu, Virginia Tech
Database systems
Leonhard Spiegelberg
Brown University
Jialin Ding
MIT
Finalists: Tobias Ziegler, Technical University of Darmstadt; Ian Neal, University of Michigan; Pedro Thiago Timbó Holanda, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica; Avinash Kumar, University of California, Irvine
Systems for machine learning
Weizhe Hua
Cornell University
Finalist: Qinyi Luo, University of Southern California
Instagram/Facebook app well-being and safety
Yasaman Sadat Sefidgar
University of Washington
Finalists: Nicholas Santer, University of California, Santa Cruz; Brian Ward Bauer, University of Southern Mississippi; Morgan Klaus Scheuerman, University of Colorado Boulder
Privacy and data use
Reza Ghaiumy Anaraky
Clemson University
Finalist: Yixi Zou, University of Michigan
Machine learning
Mikhail Khodak
Carnegie Mellon University
Yuval Dagan
MIT
Natural language processing
Tiago Pimentel Martins da Silva
University of Cambridge
Kawin Ethayarajh
Stanford University
Finalists: Haoyue “Freda” Shi, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago; Tom McCoy, Johns Hopkins University
Spoken language processing and audio classification
Paul Pu Liang
Carnegie Mellon University
Finalists: Jonah Casebeer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Efthymios Tzinis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Karan Ahuja, Carnegie Mellon University
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To learn more about application requirements and program details, visit the Facebook Fellowship Program page.
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