Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship 2026-2027 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: December 14, 2025

Applications are open for the Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship 2026-2027. The objective of this fellowship is to assist and encourage Ph.D. candidates to generate groundbreaking analysis publications, open supply contributions, and/or different types of analysis dissemination. Bloomberg fellows are supported each financially and thru mentorship, profession counseling, and analysis internships.

Specific matters of curiosity for this 12 months’s name embrace, however should not restricted to (in alphabetical order):

• Agentic AI and LLM Reasoning
• Agent Evaluation and LLM Judges
• Code Generation, Semantic Parsing, and Text2API
• Human-AI Interaction and Data Annotation
• Information Retrieval and Conversational Systems
• Knowledge Graphs and Structured Reasoning
• LLM Post-training, Domain Adaptation, and Alignment
• Multi-modal Models for Document Understanding
• Summarization and Content Generation
• Time-series Modeling and AI for Finance
• Trustworthy AI and Interpretability

Benefits

• The fellowship will cowl 100% of the recipient’s tuition.
• Recipients can be given a stipend of USD $45,000 to cowl their residing bills and to attend skilled conferences or for analysis bills, akin to pc {hardware}.
• Recipients could have Bloomberg mentors and are required to finish a 14-week paid summer time internship at Bloomberg for every year that they’re a fellow, beginning in Summer 2026.
• Recipients have the OPPORTUNITY to resume their fellowship yearly, for as much as three years, at Bloomberg’s discretion.

Eligibility

• Applicants have to be full-time doctoral college students throughout the 2026-2027 tutorial 12 months, with an anticipated Ph.D. commencement date in or earlier than the top of 2029.
• Recipients should stay enrolled as full-time college students during the grant. If this standing isn’t maintained, the rest of the grant can be forfeited.
• Recipients should attend the tutorial 12 months kickoff occasion every fall at Bloomberg Headquarters in New York (until the occasion takes place on-line-solely). Bloomberg will bear all bills associated to the recipient attending this occasion.
• Recipients should full a 14-week summer time internship in New York, London, or Toronto for every year of their fellowship. This is a paid analysis internship and the mission can be analysis-centered.
• Recipients might not be supported by another {industry} fellowships during the Bloomberg fellowship. Non-industry funding could also be permitted on a case-by-case foundation.
• Recipients might not be employed exterior of their college during the fellowship with out specific permission from Bloomberg.
• Bloomberg is not going to present sponsorship for any U.S. visa. Those who’ve a self-sponsored work authorization (i.e., F-1 OPT or different EAD, and so forth.) overlaying the total internship or fellowship interval are eligible to apply.

Application

Applications to the Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship will encompass the next paperwork:

• Curriculum vitae
• Research proposal
  • A two-web page analysis proposal (excluding references), which incorporates the proposed work directed at a technical viewers.
  • The analysis proposal ought to adhere to the formatting pointers described on this Overleaf template. Failure to take action will end result within the application not being reviewed.
• A reference letter from the applicant’s advisor or proposed advisor and, optionally, a further referee.
  • The applicant can be prompted to offer contact data of the referee at application submission time.
  • The referee(s) ought to add their letters within the system no later than the application deadline (they may obtain an invite at application submission time).
  • It is the applicant’s duty to make sure the reference letter(s) are submitted by the application deadline.

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For extra data, go to Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship.