Vinu Joseph, a fifth-year Ph.D. student working with School of Computing professor Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, was selected as a recipient of the 2020-2021 NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship. The prestigious award provides funding to help further Vinu’s research. He was one of five students selected this year.

The NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program now provides funding in the amount of up to $50,000 per award to Ph.D. students who are researching topics that will lead to major advances in the graphics and high-performance computing industries, and are investigating innovative ways of leveraging the power of the GPU. In addition, the Fellowship includes a summer internship preceding the Fellowship year.

NVIDIA selects students each year who have the talent, aptitude and initiative to work closely with the graphics company early in their careers.