Global Talent Attraction Program

This program aims to bring together and manage all activities that have high impact on attracting talented students from anywhere in the world to our programs here at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering. Through our International Summer Research Fellowship Opportunity (Summer 2020), we aim to bring high achieving undergraduate students from prestigious international universities to Indiana University during summer to work with our faculty.

Questions? If you would like to apply and have questions, contact Grigory Yaroslavtsev (grigory@grigory.us).

International Summer Research Fellowship Opportunity

Participant Benefits:

$4,000 stipend (self-arranged travel and transportation)
Access to campus facilities (libraries)
Wireless internet and computer lab access
Social events

Academic Benefits:

Research mentorship with faculty and graduate students
Interacting with a community of scholars
Learn about Luddy SICE graduate programs
Exposure to IU campus and all its resources
GTAP participants are expected to participate full-time during the 8- to 10-week program. Participants may not enroll in classes, concurrent summer programs, or hold other employment during the period of the program. Program start and end dates can be modified.

Eligibility Requirements:

Full-time undergraduate student in an international accredited university
Program duration: 8-10 weeks during the summer months of May through September

How to Apply

Submit materials (listed below) via email to Karen Kenny, Administrative Assistant, kkenny@indiana.edu (GTAP in the subject line)
Send an email to Grigory (grigory@grigory.us) with a heads up about your application.

Application Deadline:

December 15, 2019

Application Materials:

Curriculum Vitae (CV) or Resume highlighting top academic and research performances
A letter detailing your research area of interest
Most recent transcript
(optional) A recommendation letter from a faculty member at your home institution

Grigory Yaroslavtsev is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Indiana University and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Statistics. He is the founding director of the Center for Algorithms and Machine Learning at IU. Previously Grigory held a visiting position at the Alan Turing Institute (London, UK) and postdoctoral fellowships at the Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania and at Brown University, ICERM. Grigory received his Ph.D. in theoretical computer science in 2014 from Penn State. He works on foundational questions in scalable algorithms for machine learning, data science and private data release. His work is supported by NSF CRII Award and Facebook Faculty Research Award.