Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship 2027-2028 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: September 25, 2026

Applications are open for the Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship 2027-2028. Bloomberg’s AI/ML researchers and engineers work on robust issues for the Bloomberg Terminal, bringing collectively scientific evaluation and engineering firepower. Bloomberg invites distinctive Ph.D. college students working in related fields of study to apply for the Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship for the tutorial yr of 2027-2028.

The objective of this fellowship is to help 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.

Topics of Interest

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

• Agentic AI, Tool Use, and Agent Infrastructure
• Agent Evaluation and LLM Judges
• Code Generation, Semantic Parsing, and Text-to-API
• Efficient Models, Distillation, and Inference
• Human-AI Collaboration, Data Annotation, and Data-Centric AI
• Information Retrieval, RAG, and Agentic Search
• Information Synthesis, Summarization, and Generation
• Knowledge Graphs, Structured and Neuro-symbolic Reasoning
• LLM Post-training, Domain Adaptation, Reasoning, and Alignment
• Multimodal Models and Document Intelligence
• Time-series Modeling, Forecasting, and AI for Finance
• Trustworthy, Responsible, and Secure AI

Benefits

• The fellowship will cowl 100% of the recipient’s tuition.
• Recipients shall be given a stipend of USD $45,000 to cowl their dwelling bills and to attend skilled conferences or for analysis bills, corresponding to pc {hardware}.
• Recipients could have Bloomberg mentors and are required to finish a 14-week paid summer season internship at Bloomberg for annually that they’re a fellow, beginning in Summer 2027.
• Recipients could have the OPPORTUNITY to resume their fellowship yearly, for as much as three years, at Bloomberg’s discretion.

Eligibility

• Applicants should be full-time doctoral college students in the course of the 2027-2028 tutorial yr, with an anticipated Ph.D. commencement date in or earlier than the top of 2030.
• Recipients should stay enrolled as full-time college students all through the grant. If this standing isn’t maintained, the rest of the grant shall be forfeited.
• Recipients should attend the tutorial yr 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 season internship in New York, London, or Toronto for annually of their fellowship. This is a paid analysis internship and the venture shall be analysis-targeted.
• Recipients will not be supported by some other {industry} fellowships all through the Bloomberg fellowship. Non-industry funding could also be permitted on a case-by-case foundation.
• Recipients will not be employed exterior of their college all through the fellowship with out express 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 on.) masking the total internship or fellowship interval are eligible to apply.

Application

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

• Curriculum vitae
• Research proposal
  • A two-web page analysis proposal (excluding references), which accommodates the proposed work directed at a technical viewers.
  • The analysis proposal ought to adhere to the formatting tips described on this Overleaf template. Failure to take action will outcome within the application not being reviewed.
• A reference letter from the applicant’s advisor or proposed advisor and, optionally, a further referee.
  • The applicant shall be prompted to supply 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 are going to obtain an invite at application submission time).
  • It is the applicant’s accountability 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.