School of AI Fellowship Program

Jess
The School of AI (official)
2 min readOct 9, 2018

School of AI Launches Fellowship Program to Support and Grow emerging AI Talent

School of AI launches a global fellowship program to attract and recruit outstanding young researchers to lead impactful and independent AI research

Meet the School of AI 2018 Fellows!

San Francisco — October 8, 2018 — Continuing its commitment to offering a world-class AI education to anyone on Earth for free, School of AI today announced the launch of the School of AI Fellowship Program, which will offer 10 fellows from around the world financial support to pursue impactful and independent AI research.

“We believe that by enabling individuals from all around the world to do research with a complete pipeline of resources, from funding to research mentorship to helping them submit their work to relevant outlets, the entire AI community will benefit,” Siraj Raval, Founder of School of AI.

We will be granting 10 of the most promising fellows in AI and ML who are interested in making the long-term, large-scale impacts of AI a central focus of their research $1,000 GCP cloud credits as well as an advisor from the AI community.

We believe that artificial intelligence has the ability to solve some of the worlds most pressing issues from poverty to climate action and may lead to changes in human civilization. The School of AI Fellows has a broad mandate to think through which kinds of AI and ML research are likely to bring the most value and to share ideas with their local School of AI community, which are composed of like-minded individuals.

Submissions for the School of AI Fellowship Program open today, October 8, 2018, and close on October 15, 2018, at 12 p.m. PST. For more information about the fellowship program, full eligibility criteria and to submit an application, visit: theschool.ai/school-of-ai-fellowship/

About Siraj Raval

Siraj Raval is an AI Educator, Bestselling Author, and Data Scientist. He is the director/founder of the international nonprofit School of AI-based in over 400 cities globally, has built the fastest growing AI community in the world (over 500K engineers), and has worked on a host of open source work. Siraj has spoken about AI across the world at venues like the United Nations Global People Summit, CERN, and Google IO. His work has been shared by top AI researchers in the field including Demis Hassabis and Jeff Dean.

Follow Siraj Raval on Twitter @SirajRaval, Facebook @sirajology, Instagram @SirajRaval, and YouTube.com/c/sirajraval

About The School of AI

We are School of AI! Our mission is to offer a world-class AI education to anyone on Earth for free. Our doors are open to all those who wish to learn. We are a learning community that spans almost every country dedicated to teaching our students how to make a positive impact in the world using AI technology, whether that’s through employment or entrepreneurship. Find out more at TheSchool.AI

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Jess
The School of AI (official)

Academic. Consultant. Writing mainly about artificial intelligence | data science | research | higher education, and making sense out of the chaos.