Below are links to various prestigious external PhD fellowship and award programs, relevant to EDIC. In some cases (where an EDIC deadline is indicated), the number of nominations may be limited, so submission to the EDIC program committee as a first step is required.
With the exception of the EPFL Research Awards, EDIC sends out the calls, details and reminders to all EDIC thesis directors prior to the deadlines indicated.
PhD Awards
Currently open:
- Ackermann Award
- ACSL: July 1, 2021
- ERCIM WG STM Best PhD Thesis Award
- ERCIM: July 12, 2021
- ISSS Excellence Award
- ISSS: August 31, 2021
- Patrick Denantes Memorial Prize
- EDIC: August 31, 2021
- ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award
- EDIC: August 31, 2021
- ACM: October 31, 2021
- GI-Dissertationspreis (in German)
- EDIC (Call 1): August 31, 2021
- EDIC (Call 2): January 1, 2021
- GI: mid-February, 2022
- Doctoral Program Thesis Distinction
- EDIC: August 31, 2021
- Fritz Kutter Award Industry Related Thesis in CS
- Fritz Kutter: September 22, 2021
- SPEC Distinguished Dissertation Award
- SPEC: September 30, 2021
- Asea Brown Boveri Ltd. Award
- EPFL Research Office: October 30, 2021
- EPFL Doctorate Award
- EPFL Research Office: October 30, 2021
- IBM Research Award
- EPFL Research Office: For PhD theses on even years no later than October 30
Closed:
- SIGOPS Dennis M. Ritchie Award
- EDIC: June 10, 2020
- SIGOPS: July 31, 2020
- EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award
- EDAA: November 1, 2020
- EuroSys Roger Needham PhD Award
- EuroSys: December 15, 2020
- ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
- SIGSOFT: December 15 (each year)
- Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award
- ITSOC: January 15 (each year)
- John C. Reynolds Doctoral Dissertation Award
- SIGPLAN: January 15, 2021
- ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
- SIGGRAPH: January 31, 2021
- ACM SIGARCH/TCCA Outstanding Dissertation Award
- SIGARCH: February 1, 2021
- Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award
- EPFL Research Office: March 1, 2021
- SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award
- EDIC: February 22, 2021
- SIGMOD: March 8, 2021
- Principles of Distributed Computing Dissertation Award
- PODC: March 31, 2021
- Schmidt Science Fellows Program
- EPFL Research Office: May 10, 2021
Industry Fellowship Programs
Currently open:
- Google PhD Fellowship
- EDIC: September 1, 2021
- EPFL Research Office: September 9, 2021 (dept. shortlisted nominee)
- EPFL Research Office: September 24, 2021 (final application package)
- Google: September 30, 2021
- Facebook Fellowship Program
- Deadline: September 20, 2021
Closed:
- NVIDIA Graduate Fellowships
- Deadline: September 11, 2020
- IBM PhD Fellowship
- EDIC: mid-September
- IBM: 3rd week of September (accepted for 5 weeks)
- Google Europe Scholarship for Students with Disabilities
- Deadline: December 4, 2020
- Generation Google Scholarship (Europe, Middle East and Africa)
- Deadline: December 4, 2020
- Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship
- Faculty nominees receive a request to submit their proposal (next call 2021)
- NortonLifeLock Graduate Fellowship (formerly known as Symantec Graduate Fellowship)
- Deadline: to be confirmed
- Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship
- Deadline: February 26, 2021
- Dan David Prize (2021 selected fields)
- Deadline: March 10, 2021
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- Intel Doctoral Student Honor Program – European program closed in 2014
- Microsoft Women’s Fellowship Program – no longer open to EMEA universities
- VMware Graduate Fellowship – closed in 2015