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.

Congratulations to the 2023 IBM PhD Fellowship awardees!



Sajant Anand

Sajant Anand

University of California-Berkeley
United States

Yonggan Fu

Yonggan Fu

Georgia Institute of Technology
United States

Tianyu Gao

Tianyu Gao

Princeton University
United States

Grace Guo

Grace Guo

Georgia Institute of Technology
United States

Ankita Gupta

Ankita Gupta

University of Massachusetts at Amherst
United States

Taylor Olson

Taylor Olson

Northwestern University
United States

Megha Srivastava

Megha Srivastava

Stanford University
United States

Lixu Wang

Lixu Wang

Northwestern University
United States

Zhanghao Wu

Zhanghao Wu

University of California-Berkeley
United States

Lijun Zhang

Lijun Zhang

University of Massachusetts at Amherst
United States

Congratulations to the 2022 IBM PhD Fellowship awardees!

Ishtiyaque Ahmad

Ishtiyaque Ahmad

University of California
Santa Barbara
United States

Lauren Alvarez

Lauren Alvarez

North Carolina State University
United States

Akari Asai

Akari Asai

University of Washington
United States

Fabia Athena

Fabia Athena

Georgia Institute of Technology
United States

Yufeng Bright Ye

Yufeng Bright Ye

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United States

Zana Bucinca

Zana Bucinca

Harvard University
United States

Catherine Chen

Catherine Chen

University of California, Berkeley
United States

Ka Ho Chow

Ka Ho Chow

Georgia Institute of Technology
United States

Ching-Yao Chuang

Ching-Yao Chuang

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United States

Cora Coleman

Cora Coleman

University of California
San Diego
United States

Sam Cree

Sam Cree

Stanford University
United States

Yangruibo Ding

Yangruibo Ding

Columbia University in the City of New York
United States

Zexue He

Zexue He

University of California
San Diego
United States

Surbhi Mittal

Surbhi Mittal

Indian Institute of Technology
IIT Jodhpur
India

Yongmo Park

Yongmo Park

University of Michigan-AnnArbor
United States

Charvi Rastogi

Charvi Rastogi

Carnegie Mellon University
United States

Stefan Sack

Stefan Sack

Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Austria

Fangzheng Xu

Fangzheng Xu

Carnegie Mellon University
United States

Bo Zhang

Bo Zhang

Columbia University in the City of New York
United States

Congratulations to the 2021 IBM PhD Fellowship awardees!

Manaar Alam

Ahmed Alquraan

University of Waterloo
Canada

Manaar Alam

Syrine Belakaria

Washington State University
United States

Junyu Cao

Eyal Ben-David

Technion Israel Institute of Technology
Israel

Andrew Cullen

Tianlong Chen

University of Texas at Austin
United States

Andrew Cullen

Shehzaad Dhuliawala

ETHZ - Federal Institute of
Technology Zurich
Switzerland

Andrew Cullen

Scott Freitas

Georgia Institute of Technology
United States

Alessandro de Palma

Uma Girish

Princeton University
United States

Leon Ding

Gabriel Gusmao

Georgia Institute of Technology
United States

Andrew Cullen

Geraud Nangue Tasse

Wits University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
South Africa

Michael Hersche

Vikram Narayanan

University of California-Irvine
United States

Andy Huynh

Simbarashe Nyatsanga

University of California-Davis
United States

Nikolaos Papadis

Soyun Park

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United States

Jungo Kasai

Abhairaj Singh

Technische Universiteit Delft
Netherlands

Stacey Truex

Yudai Suzuki

Keio University
Japan

Ellen Vitercik

Silvana Trindade

Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Brazil

Pengcheng Yin

Pheona Williams

Howard University
United States

Congratulations to the 2020 IBM PhD Fellowship awardees!

Manaar Alam

Amani Ahmad Al-Ahmadi

King Saud University
Saudi Arabia

Manaar Alam

Atri Bhattacharyya

EPFL - Federal Institute of
Technology Lausanne Switzerland

Junyu Cao

Stanley Alex Breitweiser

University of Pennsylvania
United States

Junyu Cao

Lijie Chen

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United States

Yueqi Chen

Yueqi Chen

Penn State University
United States

Andrew Cullen

Andrew Cullen

Imperial College of Science
Technology Medicine London
United Kingdom

Alessandro de Palma

Alessandro de Palma

University of Oxford
United Kingdom

Leon Ding

Leon Ding

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United States

Wenbo Guo

Wenbo Guo

Penn State University
United States

Michael Hersche

Michael Hersche

ETHZ - Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland

Andy Huynh

Andy Huynh

Boston University
United States

Nikolaos Papadis

Saurabh Jha

University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
United States

Jungo Kasai

Jungo Kasai

University of Washington, Seattle
United States

Stacey Truex

Corey Lammie

James Cook University
Australia

Ellen Vitercik

Theodor Lundberg

University of Cambridge
United Kingdom

Pengcheng Yin

Sujaya Maiyya

University of California, Santa Barbara
United States

Jungo Kasai

Prakash Murali

Princeton University
United States

Stacey Truex

Jonas Pfeiffer

Technische Universitat Darmstadt
Germany

Ellen Vitercik

Sharon Qian

Harvard University
United States

Nidhi Rathi

Nidhi Rathi

Indian Institute of Science
India

Jungo Kasai

Eddie Schoute

University of Maryland, College Park
United States

Stacey Truex

Eli Schwartz

Tel Aviv University
Israel

Ellen Vitercik

Arthur Selle Jacobs

Universidade Federal do Rio
Grande do Sul
Brazil

Nidhi Rathi

Gunjan Singh

Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology
India

Congratulations 2019 IBM PhD Fellows!

Manaar Alam

Manaar Alam

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Charlotte Boettcher

Charlotte Boettcher

Harvard University

Junyu Cao

Junyu Cao

University of California, Berkeley

Ignacio Cases

Ignacio Cases

Stanford University

Timon Gehr

Timon Gehr

ETHZ - Federal Institute of Technology Zuric

Dennis Grishinr

Dennis Grishin

Harvard University

Vojtech Havlicek

Vojtech Havlicek

University of Oxford

Kei Kase

Kei Kase

Waseda University

Marios Kogias

Marios Kogias

EPFL - Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne

Song Liu

Song Liu

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Ellis Michael

Ellis Michael

Unniversity of Washington, Seattle

Nikolaos Papadis

Nikolaos Papadis

Yale University

Anupam Sanghi

Anupam Sanghi

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Stacey Truex

Stacey Truex

Georgia Institute of Technology

Ellen Vitercik

Ellen Vitercik

Carnegie Mellon University

Pengcheng Yin

Pengcheng Yin

Carnegie Mellon University

Congratulations 2018 IBM PhD Fellows!

Zakaria Aldeneh

Zakaria Aldeneh

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Sarath Chandar Anbil Parthipan

Sarath Chandar Anbil Parthipan

University of Montreal

Saikrishna Badrinarayanan

Saikrishna Badrinarayanan

University of California, Los Angeles

Maynard Marshall Ball

Maynard Marshall Ball

Columbia University

Shang-Tse Chen

Shang-Tse Chen

Georgia Institute of Technology

Michael Coblenz

Michael Coblenz

Carnegie Mellon University

Snigdha Das

Snigdha Das

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Hagit Grushka-Cohen

Hagit Grushka-Cohen

Ben-Gurion University

Rishab Goyal

Rishab Goyal

University of Texas at Austin

Josiah Hanna

Josiah Hanna

University of Texas at Austin

Yining Hu

Yining Hu

University of New South Wales

Amir Kafshdar Goharshady

Amir Kafshdar Goharshady

Institute of Science and Technology Austria

Eleftherios Kokoris-Kogias

Eleftherios Kokoris-Kogias

EPFL - Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne

Chun-Liang Li

Chun-Liang Li

Carnegie Mellon University

Tongyang Li

Tongyang Li

University of Maryland, College Park

Chaoxuan Ma

Chaoxuan Ma

University of California, San Diego

Clemens Rosenbaum

Clemens Rosenbaum

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Sailik Sengupta

Sailik Sengupta

Arizona State University

Chad Spensky

Chad Spensky

University of California, Santa Barbara

Hasini Urala Liyanage Dona Gunasinghe

Hasini Urala Liyanage Dona Gunasinghe

Purdue University

Gary Yeung

Gary Yeung

University of California, Los Angeles

Fan Zhang

Fan Zhang

Cornell University

Huan Zhang

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


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