The Ken Kennedy Institute’s Sponsored Graduate Fellowship Program awarded $65,000 to nine graduate students across six departments at Rice University. Recipients use fellowship awards to further research pursuits, attend conferences, travel, and develop networking relationships in industry. Past recipients have spent summers as research interns with sponsoring companies.
An important aspect of the fellowships is presenting research at the biannual Ken Kennedy Institute Fellowship Reception and Student Showcase, the Institute’s annual Energy High Performance Computing Conference, and the Institute’s annual AI in Health Conference.
With the support of industry, the Energy HPC Conference, and nominating departments (for recruiting fellowships), the Ken Kennedy Institute has awarded nearly $1.8 million to 201 students since 2001. The 2023-24 sponsored graduate fellowships are supported by bp, ExxonMobil, Shell, the Scott Morton Memorial (provided by the Energy HPC Conference), Andrew Ladd Memorial Excellence in Computer Science, and the Ken Kennedy-HPE Cray endowments.
We congratulate the 2023-24 fellowship recipients:
Sina Alemohammad, Electrical & Computer Engineering: bp, $7,500
Anja Conev, Computer Science: Ken Kennedy-HPE Cray, $7,500
Katherine Garcia, Psychological Sciences: Shell, $7,500
Jaewoo Kim, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences: ExxonMobil, $7,500
Nhi Le, Statistics: Energy HPC Conference, $7,500
Kashif Liaqat, Mechanical Engineering: Scott Morton Memorial (provided by the Energy HPC Conference), $7,500
Edward Duc Hien Nguyen, Electrical & Computer Engineering: Ken Kennedy-HPE Cray, $7,500
Tianyang Pan, Computer Science: Andrew Ladd Memorial Excellence in Computer Science, $5,000
Carlos Taveras, Electrical & Computer Engineering: Ken Kennedy-HPE Cray, $7,500
With support from the Energy High Performance Computing Conference, industry, and nominating departments, the Ken Kennedy Institute has awarded nearly $1.8 million to 201 graduate students since 2001. In total, the Energy HPC Conference funded 78 of those students for $580,000. More details can be found here.
If your company is interested in sponsoring a one-year graduate student fellowship, view information about our Corporate Partner Program.
– The Ken Kennedy Institute
