Facebook Fellowship Program

Application Timeline
December 20, 2010: Launch of Fellowship for 2011-2012 academic year
February 28, 2011: Applications for fellowships must be submitted in full
April 8, 2011: Award recipients will be notified by email of their acceptance
Topical Areas

We are interested in a wide range of academic topics, including the following topical areas:
Computational Advertising
Computer Vision
Compiler Technology
Computer Architecture
Computer Networking
Computer Security
Databases
Data Mining
Distributed Computing
Fault Tolerance
Human-Computer Interaction
Internet Economics
Machine Learning
Machine Translation
Natural Language Processing
Search
Smart Datacenters
Social Computing
Eligibility Criteria

Full-time Ph.D. students in topical areas represented by these fellowships who are currently involved in on-going research.

Students must be studying Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, System Architecture, or a related area.

Students must be enrolled during the academic year that the Fellowship is awarded.
Students must be nominated by a faculty member.

Selection Criteria

Eligibility of applicant.
Quality of application.
Applicability of the project or study to Facebook.
Other criteria as decided by Facebook in its sole discretion. Facebook complies with all equal opportunity laws.
Application Checklist

The application must include:
1-2 page research summary which clearly identifies the area of focus and applicability to Facebook. Please reference the topical areas above.
Student's CV (with email, phone and mailing address). Please include applicable coursework.
Minimum of 2 letters of recommendation (one must be from the faculty sponsor).
The name and website/short bio of the faculty sponsor.

PLEASE NOTE: The submission site is currently under construction. We will post the link here when we launch the submission site.

Source: http://www.facebook.com/fellowships?v=app_4949752878