Amazon AI PhD Fellowship ($68M Program)
Source: https://www.amazon.science/news/amazon-launches-68-million-ai-phd-fellowship-program
Expires: 2027-06-30
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+ 1 Amazon's $68 million AI PhD Fellowship funds over 100 doctoral students across 9 top US universities over two academic years (2025-2027). Fellows receive full tuition, a stipend, travel funding, AWS cloud credits, and one-on-one mentorship from Amazon senior scientists. This is a highly competitive, university-nominated program -- you can't apply directly to Amazon.
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+ 5 1. Check if your university participates. The 9 partner schools are: Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UT Austin, UIUC, University of Washington, and Johns Hopkins.
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+ 6 2. You don't apply to Amazon directly. Each participating university selects its own fellows based on Amazon's criteria (emphasis on practical AI impact).
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+ 7 3. Contact your university's CS/AI department or graduate office to ask about the nomination process.
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+ 8 4. If selected, you'll be paired with an Amazon senior scientist mentor for regular guidance meetings.
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+ 9 5. AWS cloud credits are distributed through your university's allocation ($24M/year across all schools).
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+ 13 • Full tuition coverage for the fellowship period.
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+ 14 • Living stipend to cover expenses.
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+ 15 • Fees covered (registration, student fees, etc.).
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+ 16 • AWS cloud computing credits -- drawn from a pool of $24 million/year distributed across the 9 universities.
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+ 17 • Amazon mentor -- each fellow is paired with a senior Amazon scientist for regular meetings on real-world research implications.
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+ 18 • Travel funding for conferences and research collaboration.
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+ 19 • Each university also receives ~$1.1M/year to support the broader AI research environment.
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+ 23 • Must be a PhD student at one of the 9 partner universities.
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+ 24 • Research must focus on one of these areas:
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+ 25 • Machine learning
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+ 26 • Computer vision
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+ 27 • Natural language processing
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+ 28 • Agentic systems
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+ 29 • Large language models and generative AI
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+ 30 • Automated reasoning
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+ 31 • Selection is done by the university, not by Amazon -- emphasis is on candidates whose research has practical AI impact.
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+ 32 • The first cohort started in the 2025-2026 academic year.
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+ 36 • This is not an open application. If you're not at one of the 9 schools, you're not eligible. Consider transferring or collaborating with researchers at partner institutions.
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+ 37 • AWS credits are shared across your university's fellows -- the per-student amount depends on how many fellows your school selects.
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+ 38 • Mentorship is the real value -- access to Amazon scientists working on production-scale AI can shape your research direction and open career doors.
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+ 39 • Compare with similar programs:
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+ 40 • NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship ($50K stipend + GPU access)
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+ 41 • Google PhD Fellowship (tuition + stipend + Google mentor)
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+ 42 • Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship
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+ 43 • Meta PhD Fellowship
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+ 44 • Two-year window -- the program runs for 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 academic years. It's unclear if Amazon will extend it beyond that.
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+ 45 • 15 fellows at UCLA alone were selected for the first cohort, suggesting roughly 10-15 fellows per university.
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+ 47 Sources:
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+ 48 • https://www.amazon.science/news/amazon-launches-68-million-ai-phd-fellowship-program
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+ 49 • https://www.washington.edu/news/2025/10/21/amazon-launches-ai-phd-fellowship-program-with-uw/
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+ 50 • https://hub.jhu.edu/2025/11/03/amazon-ai-phd-fellowship-program/
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+ 51 • https://samueli.ucla.edu/15-ucla-engineering-doctoral-students-named-amazon-ai-fellows/
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+ 52 • https://ai2ai.engineering.jhu.edu/opportunities/fellowship-for-phd-students/
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