Mountain View campus (USA), 05 Sept 2019:  The Google PhD Fellows represent some of the best and brightest young computer science researchers from around the globe, and it is our ongoing goal to support them as they make their mark on the world. Every year, recipients of the Fellowship are invited to a global summit at Googles Mountain View campus, where they can learn more about Google’s state-of-the-art research, and network with Google’s research community as well as other PhD Fellows from around the world.

At this year’s summit event, active Google Fellowship recipients were joined by special guests, FLIP (Diversifying Future Leadership in the Professoriate) Alliance Fellows. Research Director Peter Norvig opened the event with a keynote on the fundamental practice of machine learning, followed by a number of talks by prestigious researchers. Among the list of speakers were Research Scientist Peggy Chi, who spoke about crowdsourcing geographically diverse images for use in training data, Senior Google Fellow and SVP of Google Research and Health Jeff Dean, who discussed using deep learning to solve a variety of challenging research problems at Google, and Research Scientist Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, who presented the ethical implications of machine learning, especially around questions of fairness and accountability. See the complete list of insightful talks delivered by all speakers here.

Google Fellows had the opportunity to present their work in lightning talks to small groups with common research interests. In addition, Google and FLIP Alliance Fellows came together to share their work with Google researchers and each other during a poster session.

2019 Google PhD Fellows

The Google PhD Fellows represent some of the best and brightest young computer science researchers from around the globe, and it is our ongoing goal to support them as they make their mark on the world. Congratulations to all of this year’s awardees! The complete list of recipients is:

Algorithms, Optimizations and Markets

Aidasadat Mousavifar, EPFL Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Peilin Zhong, Columbia University

Siddharth Bhandari, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Soheil Behnezhad, University of Maryland at College Park

Zhe Feng, Harvard University

Computational Neuroscience

Caroline Haimerl, New York University

Mai Gamal, German University in Cairo

Human Computer Interaction

Catalin Voss, Stanford University

Hua Hua, Australian National University

Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, University of Melbourne

Machine Learning

Abdulsalam Ometere Latifat, African University of Science and Technology Abuja

Adji Bousso Dieng, Columbia University

Anshul Mittal, IIT Delhi

Blake Woodworth, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

Diana Cai, Princeton University

Francesco Locatello, ETH Zurich

Ihsane Gryech, International University Of Rabat, Morocco

Jaemin Yoo, Seoul National University

Maruan Al-Shedivat, Carnegie Mellon University

Ousseynou Mbaye, Alioune Diop University of Bambey

Rendani Mbuvha, University of Johannesburg

Shibani Santurkar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Takashi Ishida, University of Tokyo

Machine Perception, Speech Technology and Computer Vision

Chenxi Liu, Johns Hopkins University

Kayode Kolawole Olaleye, Stellenbosch University

Ruohan Gao, The University of Texas at Austin

Tiancheng Sun, University of California San Diego

Xuanyi Dong, University of Technology Sydney

Yu Liu, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Zhi Tian, University of Adelaide

Mobile Computing

Naoki Kimura, University of Tokyo

Natural Language Processing

Abigail See, Stanford University

Ananya Sai B, IIT Madras

Byeongchang Kim, Seoul National University

Daniel Patrick Fried, UC Berkeley

Hao Peng, University of Washington

Reinald Kim Amplayo, University of Edinburgh

Sungjoon Park, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Privacy and Security

Ajith Suresh, Indian Institute of Science

Itsaka Rakotonirina, Inria Nancy

Milad Nasr, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Sarah Ann Scheffler, Boston University

Programming Technology and Software Engineering

Caroline Lemieux, UC Berkeley

Conrad Watt, University of Cambridge

Umang Mathur, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Quantum Computing

Amy Greene, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Leonard Wossnig, University College London

Yuan Su, University of Maryland at College Park

Structured Data and Database Management

Amir Gilad, Tel Aviv University

Nofar Carmeli, Technion

Zhuoyue Zhao, University of Utah

Systems and Networking

Chinmay Kulkarni, University of Utah

Nicolai Oswald, University of Edinburgh

Saksham Agarwal, Cornell University