Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD fellowship

The Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD fellowship was created to recognize and support PhD students in Computer Science and related areas who are pursuing research in artificial intelligence and machine learning, with a unique focus on work that is related to Apple’s core values.

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Meet the 2025 Apple Scholars in AI/ML

Machine Learning research at Apple

 

Harvard University may nominate a total of three nominees, limited to one nominee from these research areas:

  • Privacy Preserving Machine Learning
  • Human Centered AI
  • AI for Ethics and Fairness
  • AI for Accessibility
  • AI for Health and Wellness
  • Interactive ML and Agents
  • ML Algorithms and Architectures
  • Embodied ML
  • Speech and Natural Language
  • Computer Vision
  • Information Retrieval, Ranking and Knowledge
  • Data-Centric AI

All materials for the internal selection process must be submitted by noon on July 21, 2025. An internal faculty committee will review interested candidates to select the final nominees. 

 

Eligibility 

  • Nominee must be enrolled full time at the nominating university at the start of Fall 2026, and expect to be enrolled through the end of the 2027/2028 academic year.
  • Nominee should be entering their last 2-3 years of study in Fall 2025. G1s are not eligible.
  • Nominee must not hold another industry-sponsored full fellowship while they are an Apple Scholar in AI/ML (Fall 2026 to Summer 2028)

 

REQUIRED MATERIALS for the Internal Submission: 

  • CV, including name, email address, PhD program, and a list of all publications. 
  • A research statement covering past work and proposed direction for next two years (two-page maximum, including citations, in a legible font size) clearly stating the hypothesis and expected contributions to the research area. Please note at the top the research area for which you would like to be considered.
  • A confidential letter of support from your thesis advisor (one page maximum). 

 

Interested applicants should send their materials as a single PDF.  The confidential letter of support should be sent separately. 

 

Please note: if you are nominated, the full application -- due on September 9 -- requires additional, more extensive materials than the internal submission. 

 

All materials for the internal selection process must be submitted to: gsasacademicprograms@fas.harvard.edu by noon on July 21, 2025.  

 

Questions regarding the internal application process should be directed to gsas-fwc@fas.harvard.edu

  

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