The Ken Kennedy Institute at Rice University is proud to collaborate with industry leaders and Rice affiliates to offer one-year graduate fellowships available to graduate students pursuing research related to high performance computing, computational science & engineering, AI, data science, and machine learning at Rice University. Since 2001, the Institute has awarded 158 fellowships totaling $1,095,000. For more information on each fellowship and a list of past fellowship recipients, visit the links for each sponsor.
Industry Sponsored Fellowships
Past industry sponsors include AMD, Chevron, NAG, and SLB. If your company is interested in sponsoring a one-year graduate student fellowship, view information about our Corporate Partner Program.
Memorial Sponsored Fellowships
- Andrew Ladd Memorial Excellence in Computer Science Graduate Fellowship
- Ken Kennedy – HPE Cray Graduate Fellowship
- Scott Morton Memorial Graduate Fellowship
2024-2025 Fellowship Application Closed
This application is available for current Ph.D. students at Rice University. This is a common application, meaning you will only need to submit your information once to be considered for all available one-year graduate fellowships. Applications closed Monday, September 30, 2024 at 11:59pm CT.
Upon application the student will be asked to answer a series of questions, sign a FERPA form, and include their current CV and a one-page research statement. In addition, each applicant's advisor must send a letter of recommendation directly to the Ken Kennedy Institute via email at kenkennedy@rice.edu. Faculty advisors should be a current member of the Ken Kennedy Institute at the time of submitting the letter of recommendation. Advisors that are not a current member or are not sure of their membership status can reach out to the Institute team to get set up. View additional details about the application requirements below.
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Requirements and Important Information:
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- Candidate must be registered as a Ph.D. student at Rice for the entire calendar year in which the candidate is nominated.
- Candidate must not be in last year of study upon application.
- Candidate must be willing to visit with the various companies funding the Ken Kennedy Institute's sponsored graduate fellowships.
- Candidate should be willing to consider a paid industry internship.
- Faculty advisor should be a current member of the Ken Kennedy Institute.
- Recipients are required to acknowledge the fellowship on relevant publications, presentations, posters, and research products, including the Ken Kennedy Institute logo when appropriate.
- Recipients are required to attend the annual and present their work at the Ken Kennedy Institute Fellowship Reception and Research Showcase.
- Recipients are strongly encouraged to present a poster during the AI in Health Conference in the fall and Energy High Performance Computing Conference in the spring.
- Fellowship funds disbursed as follows:
- Student recipients are awarded $6,500 on top of their current stipend (except for the Andrew Ladd Memorial fellowship that awards $5,000).
- Advisors receive $1,000 to be allocated to a designated fund (does not include Andrew Ladd Memorial fellowship).
Fellowship recipients are announced late October. The selection process is completed by a fellowship review committee made up of Rice faculty, the Ken Kennedy Institute, and sponsoring companies. For additional information, please contact the Ken Kennedy Institute at kenkennedy@rice.edu.
2024-2025 Recipients
- Yu-Neng (Allen) Chuang, Computer Science (Andrew Ladd Memorial)
- Anindita Dash, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences (ExxonMobil)
- Hossein Gazmeh, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Energy HPC Conference)
- Dragana Grbic, Computer Science (bp)
- Catherine He, Computer Science (Ken Kennedy-HPE Cray)
- Arnold Kazadi, Computer Science (Ken Kennedy-HPE Cray)
- Ziran Wang, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Scott Morton Memorial)
- Yihua Xu, Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research (Shell)
- Nicolas Zilberstein, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Ken Kennedy-HPE Cray)
All Past Recipients
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Sponsored Fellowships Awarded Between 2001-2023
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2023-2024
- Sina Alemohammad, Electrical and Computer Engineering (bp)
- Anja Conev, Computer Science (Ken Kennedy-HPE Cray)
- Katherine Garcia, Psychological Sciences (Shell)
- Jaewoo Kim, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences (ExxonMobil)
- Nhi Le, Statistics (Energy HPC Conference)
- Kashif Liaqat, Mechanical Engineering (Scott Morton)
- Edward Duc Hien Nguyen, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Ken Kennedy-HPE Cray)
- Tianyang Pan, Computer Science (Andrew Ladd)
- Carlos Taveras, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Ken Kennedy-HPE Cray)
2022-2023
- Fatima Ahsan, Electrical and Computer Engineering (ExxonMobil)
- Paola Cascante-Bonilla, Computer Science (SLB)
- Chen Chen, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Scott Morton)
- Aditya Desai, Computer Science (Shell)
- Victoria Granja, Mechanical Engineering (SLB)
- Yumeng Liu, Computer Science (bp)
- Zichang (Emma) Liu, Computer Science (bp)
- Nicolae Sapoval, Computer Science (Andrew Ladd)
- Guanchu Wang, Computer Science (Ken Kennedy-Cray)
2021-2022
- Shabnam Daghaghi, Electrical and Computer Engineering (bp)
- Luqin Gan, Statistics (Shell)
- Bishal Lamichhane, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Energy HPC Conference)
- Thiago Jose Pinheiro dos Santos, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (Energy HPC Conference)
- Xin Tan, Statistics (Energy HPC Conference)
- Morgan Underwood, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences (Ken Kennedy-Cray)
- Zichao (Jack) Wang, Electrical and Computer Engineering (SLB)
- Zhaozhuo Xu, Computer Science (bp)
- Zhiwei Zhang, Computer Science (Andrew Ladd)
2020-2021
- Alejandro Diaz, Computational and Applied Mathematics (bp)
- Boning Li, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Ken Kennedy-Cray)
- Huiming Lin, Statistics (OG-HPC Conference)
- Tharun Medini, Electrical and Computer Engineering (bp)
- Thomas (Mitch) Roddenberry, Electrical and Computer Engineering (ExxonMobil)
- Ivan Rosa de Siqueira, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (SLB)
- Jiarong Xing, Computer Science (Andrew Ladd)
2019-2020
- Nidish Narayanaa Balaji, Mechanical Engineering (Ken Kennedy-Cray)
- Randall Balestriero, Electrical and Computer Engineering (bp)
- Ao Cai, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences (Shell)
- Mae Markowski, Computational and Applied Mathematics (Shell)
- Afsaneh Rahbar, Computer Science (Andrew Ladd)
- Thomas (Mitch) Roddenberry, Electrical and Computer Engineering (AMD)
- Christina Taylor, Computational and Applied Mathematics (bp)
- Keren Zhou, Computer Science (ExxonMobil)
- Ye Emma Zohner, Statistics (SLB)
2018-2019
- Manav Bhati, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (OG-HPC Conference)
- Ao Cai, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences (bp)
- Carly Fagnant, Statistics (ExxonMobil)
- Jaeho Lee, Computer Science (SLB)
- Eleni Litsa, Computer Science (Andrew Ladd)
- Mae Markowski, Computational and Applied Mathematics (bp)
- Alana Semple, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences (OG-HPC Conference)
- Jordan Shivers, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (OG-HPC Conference)
- Wenya Shu, Civil and Environmental Engineering (OG-HPC Conference)
- Philip Taffet, Computer Science (Ken Kennedy-Cray)
- Christopher Thiele, Computational and Applied Mathematics (Shell)
- Yicheng Wu, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Applied Physics (OG-HPC Conference)
2017-2018
- Ashesh Chattopadhyay, Mechanical Engineering (bp)
- Beidi Chen, Computer Science (bp)
- Jeffrey Dudek, Computer Science (Ken Kennedy-Cray)
- Kaihang Guo, Computational and Applied Mathematics (OG-HPC Conference)
- Christopher Metzler, Electrical and Computer Engineering (OG-HPC Conference)
- Ewa Nowara, Electrical and Computer Engineering (SLB)
- Narmadha Rajan Babu, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ExxonMobil)
- Luqing Wang, Materials Science and Nanoengineering (OG-HPC Conference)
- Keren Zhou, Computer Science (Andrew Ladd)
2016-2017
- Maurice Fabien, Computational and Applied Mathematics (ExxonMobil)
- Xin Huang, Computer Science (SLB)
- Ali Mousavi, Electrical and Computer Engineering (SLB)
- Kim Raath, Statistics (Shell)
- Yen Sun, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences (bp)
- Luqing Wang, Materials Science and Nanoengineering (Shell)
- Dingqiao Wen, Computer Science (Andrew Ladd)
- Michael Weylandt, Statistics (bp)
- Yabin Zhang, Computational and Applied Mathematics (Ken Kennedy-Cray)
2015-2016
- Suguman Bansal, Computer Science (Andrew Ladd)
- Simbarashe Dzinamarira, Computer Science (SLB)
- Maurice Fabien, Computational and Applied Mathematics (Ken Kennedy-Cray)
- Robert Kosar, Statistics (Shell)
- Caleb Magruder, Computational and Applied Mathematics (ExxonMobil)
- Yen Sun, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences (Shell)
- Lai Wei, Computer Science (bp)
- Muhong Zhou, Computational and Applied Mathematics (bp)
2014-2015
- Rajesh Balagam, Bioengineering (OG-HPC Conference)
- Milind Chabbi, Computer Science (OG-HPC Conference)
- Xiaodi Deng, Computational and Applied Mathematics (OG-HPC Conference)
- Lei Fu, Earth Science (OG-HPC Conference)
- Jie Hou, Earth Science (OG-HPC Conference)
- Ryan Luna, Computer Science (Andrew Ladd)
- Shangyu Luo, Computer Science (Ken Kennedy-Cray)
- Brianna Lynn, Computational and Applied Mathematics (Shell)
- Caleb Magruder, Computational and Applied Mathematics (bp)
- Deepak Majeti, Computer Science (ExxonMobil)
- Alina Sbirlea, Computer Science (SLB)
- Javier Villarreal, Mechanical Engineering (SLB)
- Zheng Wang, Computational and Applied Mathematics (Shell)
- Chaoran Yang, Computer Science (bp)
2013-2014
- Zhuhua Cai, Computer Science (SLB)
- Milind Chabbi, Computer Science (OG-HPC Conference)
- Caleb Fast, Computational and Applied Mathematics (ExxonMobil)
- Lei Fu, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences (bp)
- Rajesh Gandham, Computational and Applied Mathematics (OG-HPC Conference)
- Ellis Giles, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Ken Kennedy-Cray)
- Golnaz Habibi, Computer Science (Chevron)
- Jie Hou, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences (bp)
- Jizhou Li, Computational and Applied Mathematics (OG-HPC Conference)
- Xu Liu, Computer Science (NAG)
- Eleazar Marquez, Mechanical Engineering (SLB)
- David Medina, Computational and Applied Mathematics (OG-HPC Conference)
- Kuldeep Singh, Computer Science (Andrew Ladd)
- Jun Tan, Computational and Applied Mathematics (Shell)
- Zheng Wang, Computational and Applied Mathematics (Shell)
2012-2013
- Devin Grady, Computer Science (SLB)
- Jonathan Grossman, Computer Science (OG-HPC Conference)
- Yin Huang, Computational and Applied Mathematics (OG-HPC Conference)
- Huafeng Liu, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences (Chevron)
- Kun Liu, Computational and Applied Mathematics (Shell)
- Xu Liu, Computer Science (bp)
- Jianxin Lu, Mechanical Engineering (ExxonMobil)
- David Medina, Computational and Applied Mathematics (Shell)
- Azalia Mirhoseini, Electrical and Computer Engineering (SLB)
- Yiting Xia, Computer Science (Ken Kennedy-Cray)
- Muhong Zhou, Computational and Applied Mathematics (bp)
2011-2012
- Yenny Chandra, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Ken Kennedy-Cray)
- Rajesh Gandham, Computational and Applied Mathematics (bp)
- Xu Li, Computer Science (SLB)
- Kaijian Liu, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences (bp)
- Corina Serediuc, Electrical and Computer Engineering (SLB)
2010-2011
- Drew Bryant, Computer Science (SLB)
- Saifon Chaturantabut, Computational and Applied Mathematics (Ken Kennedy-Cray)
- Samantha Summerson, Electrical and Computer Engineering (SLB)
- Xin Wang, Computational and Applied Mathematics (bp)
- Jie Zhang, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences (bp)
2009-2010
- Sanda Lefteriu, Electrical and Computer Engineering (SLB)
- Travis Martin, Computer Science (SLB)
- Igor Terentyev, Computational and Applied Mathematics (Ken Kennedy-Cray)
- Xin Wang, Computational and Applied Mathematics (bp)
2008-2009
- Arta Sadrzadeh, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Nanoengineering (Ken Kennedy-Cray)
2007-2008
- Mack Joyner, Computer Science (Ken Kennedy-Cray)
2006-2007
- Kelsey Beach, Mechanical Engineering (SLB)
- Elica Skorcheva, Electrical and Computer Engineering (SLB)
2005-2006
- Kelsey Beach, Mechanical Engineering (SLB)
- Heather Johnson, Electrical and Computer Engineering (SLB)
2004-2005
- Sarah Burkhart, Mechanical Engineering (SLB)
- Gina Upperman, Electrical and Computer Engineering (SLB)
2003-2004
- Christine Ambrose, Mechanical Engineering (SLB)
- Elspeth Simpson, Computer Science (SLB)
2002-2003
- Anne Christian, Computer Science (SLB)
- Katherine Streit, Electrical and Computer Engineering (SLB)
2001-2002
- Sarah Densmore, Mechanical Engineering (SLB)
- Ginger Walden, Electrical and Computer Engineering (SLB)
