Fellowships, Scholarships, and Grants
Below is a list of fellowships, scholarships, and grants for graduate students, typically geared toward women or underrepesented groups in computing:
- Microsoft Ada Lovelace PhD Fellowship: 2nd year PhD students at time of application
- Microsoft Dissertation Grant: 4th year PhD or above at time of application
- Women Techmakers Scholarship: undergraduate, masters, and PhD students
- Gertrude M. Cox Scholarship: MS or PhD students
- Adobe Research Women-in-Technology Scholarship: undergraduates and masters students
- Loreal USA for Women in Science: postdoctoral fellowship
Conference support
Many organizations offer travel awards for graduate students and postdocs to attend conferences. Now that many conferences are virtual, conference support is more commonly taking the form of registration support.
Machine Learning conferences
- Google Conference and Travel Scholarships: registration and travel support to attend select conferences
- NeurIPS and ICML often offer D&I scholarships for underrepresented groups in ML, including women
- ML/AI affinity groups: often offer travel (or registration) assistance to co-located conferences
Statistics conferences
- Caucus for Women In Statistics: offers travel awards for women to attend JSM
Career development, networking, etc.
There are many conferences and workshops available for career development at various stages:
- CRA-WP Grace Hopper Celebration Research Scholars Program
- CRA Grad Cohort Workshop for Women
- Rising Stars in Computational & Data Sciences
- Rising Stars in EECS
Additional resources
Some additional resources, including recommendations by folks on Twitter: