Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship Grant

The Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship invites exceptional doctoral students to apply for support in groundbreaking research for the 2024-2025 academic year. The fellowship covers full tuition and provides a stipend of $42,000, along with mentorship and internship opportunities. Applicants must be full-time students with a graduation date by 2027 and must complete a 14-week research internship. This prestigious fellowship aims to foster innovation in AI/ML research and contribute to the field's advancement.

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Bloomberg invites exceptional Ph.D. students working in relevant fields of study to apply for the Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship for the academic year of 2024-2025.
Introduction
The goal of this fellowship is to support and encourage Ph.D. candidates to generate groundbreaking research publications, open-source contributions, and/or other forms of research dissemination. Bloomberg fellows are supported both financially and through mentorship, career counseling, and research internships.
Topics of interest
Specific topics of interest for this year’s call include, but are not limited to (in alphabetical order):

• AI Safety
• Controllable summarization
• Conversational search systems
• Domain adaptation of pretrained models
• Evaluation of generative modelsGenerative Information Retrieval
• LLMs for planning and reasoning
• Multimodal models for document understanding
• Neural semantic parsing
• Retrieval augmented generationReward modeling and alignment
• Scalable and efficient LLM Inference
• Time-series modeling
• Ph.D. Grant Details
• The fellowship will cover 100% of the recipient’s tuition.

Recipients will be given a stipend of USD 42,000 to cover their living expenses and to attend professional conferences or for research expenses, such as computer hardware.Recipients have the opportunity to renew their fellowship annually, for up to three years, at Bloomberg’s discretion.

Eligibility

Applicant eligibility criteriaApplicants must be full-time doctoral students during the 2024-2025 academic year, with an expected Ph.D. graduation date in or before the end of 2027.
Recipients must remain enrolled as full-time students for the duration of the grant. If this status is not maintained, the remainder of the grant will be forfeited.
Recipients must attend the academic year kickoff event each fall at Bloomberg Headquarters in New York (unless the event takes place online only). Bloomberg will bear all expenses related to the recipient attending this event.
Recipients must complete a 14-week summer internship in New York or London for each year of their fellowship. This is a paid research internship and the project will be research-focused.Non-industry funding may be permitted on a case-by-case basis.Those who have a self-sponsored work authorization (i.e., F-1 OPT or other EAD, etc.) covering the full internship or fellowship period are eligible to apply.

Ineligibility

Incomplete proposals will not be considered.Recipients may not be supported by any other industry fellowships for the duration of the Bloomberg fellowship.Recipients may not be employed outside of their university for the duration of the fellowship without explicit permission from Bloomberg.Bloomberg will not provide sponsorship for any U.S. visa.