{"id":2987,"date":"2025-11-28T18:17:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T18:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/?p=2987"},"modified":"2025-11-29T14:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T14:09:11","slug":"bloomberg-data-science-ph-d-fellowship-2026-2027-funded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opportunityforworld.org\/?p=2987","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship 2026-2027 (Funded)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><div id=\"tdi_1\" class=\"tdc-row\"><div class=\"vc_row tdi_2  wpb_row td-pb-row\" >\n<style scoped>\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n.tdi_2,\r\n                .tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n                    min-height: 0;\r\n                }\n<\/style><div class=\"vc_column tdi_4  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<style scoped>\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n\n\/* custom css - generated by TagDiv Composer *\/\n.tdi_4{\r\n                    vertical-align: baseline;\r\n                }\n<\/style><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\" >[vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article id=\"post-169867\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>Deadline: December 14, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Applications are open for the Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship 2026-2027. The goal of this fellowship is to support and encourage Ph.D. candidates to generate groundbreaking research publications, open source contributions, and\/or other forms of research dissemination. Bloomberg fellows are supported both financially and through mentorship, career counseling, and research internships.<\/p>\n<p>Specific topics of interest for this year\u2019s call include, but are not limited to (in alphabetical order):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Agentic AI and LLM Reasoning<\/li>\n<li>Agent Evaluation and LLM Judges<\/li>\n<li>Code Generation, Semantic Parsing, and Text2API<\/li>\n<li>Human-AI Interaction and Data Annotation<\/li>\n<li>Information Retrieval and Conversational Systems<\/li>\n<li>Knowledge Graphs and Structured Reasoning<\/li>\n<li>LLM Post-training, Domain Adaptation, and Alignment<\/li>\n<li>Multi-modal Models for Document Understanding<\/li>\n<li>Summarization and Content Generation<\/li>\n<li>Time-series Modeling and AI for Finance<\/li>\n<li>Trustworthy AI and Interpretability<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Benefits<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The fellowship will cover 100% of the recipient\u2019s tuition.<\/li>\n<li>Recipients will be given a stipend of USD $45,000 to cover their living expenses and to attend professional conferences or for research expenses, such as computer hardware.<\/li>\n<li>Recipients will have Bloomberg mentors and are required to complete a 14-week paid summer internship at Bloomberg for each year that they are a fellow, starting in Summer 2026.<\/li>\n<li>Recipients have the opportunity to renew their fellowship annually, for up to three years, at Bloomberg\u2019s discretion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Eligibility<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Applicants must be full-time doctoral students during the 2026-2027 academic year, with an expected Ph.D. graduation date in or before the end of 2029.<\/li>\n<li>Recipients must remain enrolled as full-time students for the duration of the grant. If this status is not maintained, the remainder of the grant will be forfeited.<\/li>\n<li>Recipients must attend the academic year kickoff event each fall at Bloomberg Headquarters in New York (unless the event takes place online-only). Bloomberg will bear all expenses related to the recipient attending this event.<\/li>\n<li>Recipients must complete a 14-week summer internship in New York,\u00a0London, or Toronto for each year of their fellowship. This is a paid research internship and the project will be research-focused.<\/li>\n<li>Recipients may not be supported by any other industry fellowships for the duration of the Bloomberg fellowship. Non-industry funding may be permitted on a case-by-case basis.<\/li>\n<li>Recipients may not be employed outside of their university for the duration of the fellowship without explicit permission from Bloomberg.<\/li>\n<li>Bloomberg will not provide sponsorship for any U.S. visa. Those who have a self-sponsored work authorization (i.e., F-1 OPT or other EAD, etc.) covering the full internship or fellowship period are eligible to apply.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Application<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Applications to the Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship will consist of the following documents:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Curriculum vitae<\/li>\n<li>Research proposal\n<ul>\n<li>A two-page research proposal (excluding references), which contains the proposed work directed at a technical audience.<\/li>\n<li>The research proposal should adhere to the formatting guidelines described in this\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.overleaf.com\/latex\/templates\/bloomberg-data-science-ph-dot-d-slash-postdoc-fellowship-application-template\/qjdwbtnrdkvx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Overleaf template<\/a><\/strong>. Failure to do so will result in the application not being reviewed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>A reference letter from the applicant\u2019s advisor or proposed advisor and, optionally, an additional referee.\n<ul>\n<li>The applicant will be prompted to provide contact information of the referee at application submission time.<\/li>\n<li>The referee(s) should upload their letters in the system no later than the application deadline (they will receive an invitation at application submission time).<\/li>\n<li>It is the applicant\u2019s responsibility to ensure the reference letter(s) are submitted by the application deadline.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/softconf.com\/p\/Bloomberg2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to apply<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/company\/values\/tech-at-bloomberg\/data-science\/academic-engagement-programs\/data-science-ph-d-fellowship\/#eligibility\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text]<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[vc_column_text css=\"\"] Deadline: December 14, 2025 Applications are open for the Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship 2026-2027. 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