Specific topics of interest for this year’s call include, but are not limited to (in alphabetical order):
- Agentic AI and LLM Reasoning
- Agent Evaluation and LLM Judges
- Code Generation, Semantic Parsing, and Text2API
- Human-AI Interaction and Data Annotation
- Information Retrieval and Conversational Systems
- Knowledge Graphs and Structured Reasoning
- LLM Post-training, Domain Adaptation, and Alignment
- Multi-modal Models for Document Understanding
- Summarization and Content Generation
- Time-series Modeling and AI for Finance
- Trustworthy AI and Interpretability
Ph.D. Grant Details
- The fellowship will cover 100% of the recipient’s tuition.
- Recipients will be given a stipend of USD 45,000 to cover their living expenses and to attend professional conferences or for research expenses, such as computer hardware.
- Recipients will have Bloomberg mentors and are required to complete a 14-week paid summer internship at Bloomberg for each year that they are a fellow, starting in Summer 2026.
- Recipients have the opportunity to renew their fellowship annually, for up to three years, at Bloomberg’s discretion.
Applicant eligibility criteria
- Applicants must be full-time doctoral students during the 2026-2027 academic year, with an expected Ph.D. graduation date in or before the end of 2029.
- Recipients must remain enrolled as full-time students for the duration of the grant. If this status is not maintained, the remainder of the grant will be forfeited.
- Recipients must attend the academic year kickoff event each fall at Bloomberg Headquarters in New York (unless the event takes place online-only). Bloomberg will bear all expenses related to the recipient attending this event.
- Recipients must complete a 14-week summer internship in New York, London, or Toronto for each year of their fellowship. This is a paid research internship and the project will be research-focused.
- Recipients may not be supported by any other industry fellowships for the duration of the Bloomberg fellowship. Non-industry funding may be permitted on a case-by-case basis.
- Recipients may not be employed outside of their university for the duration of the fellowship without explicit permission from Bloomberg.
- Bloomberg will not provide sponsorship for any U.S. visa. Those who have a self-sponsored work authorization (i.e., F-1 OPT or other EAD, etc.) covering the full internship or fellowship period are eligible to apply.
