<div dir="ltr">We are happy to announce a Facebook PhD Fellowship sponsored by the CommAI project.<br>
<h3>Facebook Fellowship program</h3>
The Facebook Fellowship Program is designed to encourage and support
promising doctoral students. Winners of the Fellowship are entitled to
receive two years of tuition and fees paid, a stipend of $37,000 each
year, and up to $5,000 in conference travel support. Applications will
be evaluated based on the strength of the student's research statement,
publication record, and recommendation letters.<br>
<h3>CommAI and the CommAI Fellowship</h3>
CommAI is an ambitious project hosted by Facebook Artificial
Intelligence Research, aiming to develop a new generation of intelligent
systems that are able to quickly adapt to an endless streams of new
tasks through communication. More information about the project can be
found on the <a href="https://research.fb.com/projects/commai/" target="_blank">CommAI page</a>.<br>
<br>We would like to support through the CommAI Fellowship a student who
is working on non-incremental approaches to addressing interactive AI.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to continual learning,
meta-learning, bio-inspired AI, interaction-based learning, ideally
pursued with techniques that differ from standard Deep Learning and
Reinforcement Learning. Women and scientists from under-represented
groups are especially encouraged to apply.<br>
<h3>How to apply</h3>
Information on how to apply will be posted on <a href="https://research.fb.com/programs/fellowship/" target="_blank">this page</a>
on September 1, 2017. If you want to apply to the CommAI-sponsored
Fellowship, make sure you specify CommAI as your research area. You are
welcome to send, at any time, an expression of interest to the address <a href="mailto:commai@fb.com" target="_blank">commai@fb.com</a>.<br><br></div>