Graduate Fellowship Program

Symantec plans to begin accepting applications for the 2012 Fellowship in July 2011. Award decisions will be made in February 2012.

• Symantec will award Symantec Research Labs Graduate Fellowships to outstanding Ph.D. and M.S. students who meet the eligibility criteria listed below. A key goal of the program is to fund innovative research that has real-world value, in areas of Symantec’s business interests in information security, availability, and integrity.
• Fellowship participants also gain first hand research and development experience through guidance and mentorship from a top scientist of Symantec Research Labs during the fellowship period. Each participant is also encouraged to spend a summer working with their mentor at Symantec on a research project in their area of interest.

• A stipend is provided to cover educational, travel and living expenses for visits to conduct research on our campuses (i.e. reasonable costs up to $25,000 are reimbursed).
• Awardees have complimentary use of Symantec’s Worldwide Intelligence Network Environment -- an infrastructure for research experimentation within Symantec that provides unique access to current sampled security related data feeds used internally.
• Mentors from Symantec Research Labs are paired with award recipients. The mentor is a top researcher who can provide ongoing technical guidance on the recipient’s research, during their graduate training as well as during summer internships at Symantec.
• All recipients will be encouraged to take a salaried summer internship with Symantec Research Labs (Mountain View, CA, Culver City, CA, Herndon, VA, or Sophia Antipolis, France).
• Each recipient will be given a laptop preloaded with Symantec software.
• Fellowships are awarded to recipients for one academic year and may be extended for a second year, based on the award recipient's continued exceptional academic standing, progress and achievement. Any such extensions will be granted solely at Symantec's discretion.

• Applying students must attend a U.S. or European university in a Ph.D. or Master’s program focused on technology research. Exceptional graduating undergraduate seniors may also apply and final award is contingent on their acceptance to a graduate program.
• Preference will be given to students with a desire to work in an industrial research lab and those working on research projects likely to have real-world practical value to customers, in areas related to Symantec’s businesses of information security, availability, and integrity.
• Recipients will also be selected based on their overall potential for research excellence and their academic progress to-date as evidenced by publications.
• The scholarship awards will be made through the university and are not transferable to another academic institution.

• A completed fellowship application form including a personal statement of research interests not to exceed 500 words. Applicants are strongly encouraged to articulate the practical value to customers of their proposed research areas.
• A C.V. and thesis proposal (optional).
• Three letters of recommendation from professors or industry researchers who can evaluate the applicant's scientific aptitude and potential for research (may be sent confidentially, please see application form for instructions).
• Incomplete applications cannot be considered and we cannot guarantee notification of incompleteness. Please make sure applications are complete.

• Fellowship applications will be accepted beginning July 2011.
• Complete applications, including all recommendation letters, must be received no later than January 9, 2012, 8.00am (Pacific time)".
• As part of the application process, some candidates may be contacted for telephone interviews.
• The final award decisions will be announced in February 2012.

• Prateek Saxena, University of California, Berkeley
• Jiyong Jang, Carnegie Mellon University
• Leyla Bilge, Institute Eurecom

• Martim Carbone, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Xin Hu, University of Michigan

• Kevin Butler, Pennsylvania State University
• Marco Cova, University of California Santa Barbara
• Polo Chau, Carnegie Mellon University

• Polo Chau, Carnegie Mellon University
• Junghee Lim, University of Wisconsin, Madison

• David Brumley, Carnegie Mellon University
• Jack Lange, Northwestern University
• Justin Ma, University of California, San Diego