Apple is proud to announce the 2022 recipients of the Apple Scholars in AIML PhD fellowship.

We are committed to supporting the academic research community by amplifying emerging leaders in their field and their cutting-edge machine learning research.

The Apple Scholars in AIML PhD fellowship recognizes the contributions of emerging leaders in computer science and engineering at the graduate and postgraduate level. Each Scholar receives funding as they pursue their PhD, internship opportunities, and mentorship with an Apple researcher in their field. Apple Scholars in AIML are selected based on their innovative research, record as thought leaders and collaborators, and commitment to advance their respective fields.

Sushmita Bhattacharya

Sushmita Bhattacharya

Harvard University
Fundamentals of Machine Learning
Yichen Jiang

Yichen Jiang

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Speech and Natural Language
Omar Khattab

Omar Khattab

Stanford University
Knowledge Graph Generation and Database Systems
Aviral Kumar

Aviral Kumar

University of California, Berkeley
Fundamentals of Machine Learning
Sida Peng

Sida Peng

Zhejiang University
AI for Industrial Intelligence
Venkatesh Potluri

Venkatesh Potluri

University of Washington
AI for Accessibility
Aahlad Puli

Aahlad Puli

New York University
AI for Health and Wellness
Noam Razin

Noam Razin

Tel Aviv University
Fundamentals of Machine Learning
Elizabeth Salesky

Elizabeth Salesky

Johns Hopkins University
Speech and Natural Language
Ortal Senouf

Ortal Senouf

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
AI for Health and Wellness
Moshe Shenfeld

Moshe Shenfeld

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Privacy Preserving Machine Learning
Prune Truong

Prune Truong

ETH Zurich
Computer Vision and Augmented Reality
Eric Wallace

Eric Wallace

University of California, Berkeley
Privacy Preserving Machine Learning
Serena Wang

Serena Wang

University of California, Berkeley
AI for Ethics and Fairness
Guodong Zhang

Guodong Zhang

University of Toronto
On Device Machine Learning

The Apple Scholars in AIML PhD fellowship program is currently open to invited institutions. For more information, please email aiml_scholars@apple.com.

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