Student Voices: Fellowships & Industry Research Internships
Kandrea Wade (Twitter)
"My experience as a Health Research Intern at Twitter was absolutely amazing. The teams that I worked on and with were all very welcoming and made me feel like a valuable part of the team. My time at Twitter was both a personal and professional growth and learning experience, and I will take what I learned with me to all future academic and industry positions."
Nasim Sonboli (Max Planck Institute)
"Joining the Responsible Computing Group at Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy, and collaborating with the research scientists there, helped me in looking at the topic of fairness in recommender systems from another perspective. I specifically loved that this internship was in academia since I had the freedom to choose the topic of my interest which is also aligned with my thesis topic. This Internship has also helped me in expanding my technical skills and has led to on-going collaborations."
Jessie Smith (Microsoft Research)
"During my internship with Microsoft Research I was able to collaborate with the inspiring scholars that got me interested in doing research in the first place and I came out of the summer with a project and a publication on the way! This experience helped me gain a better understanding of the difference between doing research in academia and industry and has given me good insight into the kind of job I hope to get at the end of my degree."
Morgan Klaus Scheuerman (Microsoft)
"I am beyond honored to receive the Microsoft PhD Fellowship this year. Out of the thousands of applicants, Microsoft decided that my research on identity in AI was impactful and important enough to fund for the next two years. I'm super excited to get to focus fully on my dissertation work for the rest of my PhD career."