Nominations
Students may not "Self Nominate"
Faculty should coordinate their nomination(s) with their department chair there is a limit of three (3) nominations per department. Four (4) nominations are allowed from each university. If four nominations are submitted, It is IBM Global University program’s expectation that two of the four applications are for diversity candidates or underrepresented populations in technology.
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| Woman | African American | Hispanic | Native American |
| Active Duty Service Member | Black | Latinx | Alaska Native |
| Veteran Service Member | Disabled Person | Indigenous Peoples | Native Hawaiian |
| LGBTQ+ | Blank Field for Future Additions | Pacific Islander | |
Faculty submit nominations for the annual IBM PhD Fellowship program in the fall of every year, and exact times may vary from year to year. The 2022 application window will run from October 11 through November 5. Notification of nominee status takes place in early spring 2023 and are contingent upon the completion of all required documentation and due diligence requirements.
PROPOSALS & RESEARCHÂ
Submit proposals that address accelerating the discovery process in scientific inquiry and impact real issues. Submittals should support one of the subsets of a major category in the following list:
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- Advanced foundational quantum information science. Exploring and developing new quantum algorithms to reducing error rates to ensure more accurate and reliable results.
- Quantum hardware. Specialized quantum hardware and systems to scale Quantum volume while also increasing qubit count.
- Quantum Circuits and Software. Development of quantum circuits and software to explore and develop compelling use cases for this powerful new form of computing.
Award recipients will be selected based on their overall potential for research excellence, the degree to which their technical interests align with those of IBM, and their progress to-date, as evidenced by publications and endorsements from their faculty advisor and department head.
Application Must be Filled Out in One Session
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Names and email of university admins that process donations to the university; also university officials with signator capacity. Privacy and Consent Statements for Faculty and Nominee. Once you gather all of the information, and access the form, follow all of the instructions. You will be allowed to cut and paste text into text fields. Stay away from highly formatted source material, .txt work the best. Felicity Dominguez Howell (Deactivated) Tamara Schaps (Deactivated) Will discuss this in coming weeks and post the details.
PAYMENTS
The IBM PhD Fellowship payments are sent out to the university no later than the last quarter of the year. The timing of the payment depends heavily on the engagement of the nominator and the university in returning all documentation expeditiously. Awards are payable to the university or foundation, not directly to the student awardee. All nominations must include contact information for a university finance administrator for the department (designated in the nomination form by the faculty advisor) who can confirm details for payment.
Please Address All Fellowship Questions to: phdfellow@us.ibm.com.