content type programpublished April 21, 2026
Announcing the 2026 Apple Scholars in AIML
The Apple Scholars in AIML PhD fellowship program supports emerging leaders in academic research through funding as they pursue their PhDs, mentorship with Apple researchers, and internship opportunities. Scholars are nominated by their universities and are selected for the program based on their innovative research, leadership, and commitment to advancing their fields.
Now in its seventh year, the fellowship program has supported more than 120 emerging leaders in computer science and engineering at the graduate and postgraduate levels. Scholars who participated in Apple internships have co-authored more than 60 publications, resulting in acceptances at top venues around the world, including the following Spotlight papers in 2025:
AuthorsJiayuan Ye†**, Vitaly Feldman, Kunal Talwar
AuthorsVitaly Feldman, Moshe Shenfeld†
AuthorsGustaf Ahdritz, Aravind Gollakota, Parikshit Gopalan, Charlotte Peale, Udi Wieder
AuthorsHilal Asi*, Vinod Raman†**, Aadirupa Saha‡**
As part of Apple’s ongoing commitment to fostering the next generation of leaders in machine learning and artificial intelligence, we are proud to announce the 2026 recipients of the Apple Scholars in AIML PhD fellowship.
The 2026 Apple Scholars in AIML
Manuel Burger
ETH Zurich
AI for Health and Wellness
Matheus Correa Lindino
State University of Campinas (UNICAMP)
AI for Health and Wellness
Zeyu Huang
University of Edinburgh
Information Retrieval and Knowledge
Nirmit Joshi
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC)
ML Theory
Jinuk Kim
Seoul National University
ML Algorithms and Architectures
Ha Le
Northeastern University
Human Centered AI
Ming Li
University of Maryland - College Park
Data-Centric AI
Shufan Li
University of California - Los Angeles
ML Algorithms and Architectures
Ephraim Linder
Boston University
Privacy Preserving Machine Learning
Mahbod Majid
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Privacy Preserving Machine Learning
Jan Meyer Saragih
NAIST (NARA Institute of Science and Technology)
Speech and Natural Language
Sruthi Sudhakar
Columbia University
Interactive ML and Agents
Linwei Tao
University of Sydney
AI for Ethics and Fairness
Fengrui Tian
University of Pennsylvania
Computer Vision
Tobias Weinberg
Cornell University
AI for Accessibility
Kyra Wilson
University of Washington
AI for Ethics and Fairness
Xindi (Cindy) Wu
Princeton University
Data-Centric AI
Jianglong Ye
University of California - San Diego
Interactive ML and Agents
Jingyang Yuan
Peking University
Speech and Natural Language
Maike Züfle
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Speech and Natural Language
The Apple Scholars in AIML PhD fellowship program is open to invited institutions. For more information, please contact aiml_scholars@apple.com.
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