By Sylvia Chanak
Publication Date: 2025-12-04 17:00:00
For 25 years, the NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program has supported graduate students doing outstanding work relevant to NVIDIA technologies. Today, the program announced the latest awards of up to $60,000 each to 10 Ph.D. students involved in research that spans all areas of computing innovation.
Selected from a highly competitive applicant pool, the awardees will participate in a summer internship preceding the fellowship year. Their work puts them at the forefront of accelerated computing — tackling projects in autonomous systems, computer architecture, computer graphics, deep learning, programming systems, robotics and security.
The NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program is open to applicants worldwide.
The 2026-2027 fellowship recipients are:
- Jiageng Mao, University of Southern California — Solving complex physical AI problems by using diverse priors from internet-scale data to enable robust, generalizable intelligence for embodied agents in the real world.
- Liwen Wu, University of California San Diego — Enriching realism and efficiency in physically based rendering with neural materials and neural rendering.
- Manya Bansal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Designing programming languages for modern accelerators that enable developers to write modular, reusable code without sacrificing the low-level control required for peak performance.
- Sizhe Chen, University of California, Berkeley — Securing AI in real-world applications, currently securing AI…