Zuo Song, PhD candidate of IIIS, was awarded the 2017 Google PhD Fellowship for his academic excellence in Machine Learning, and was invited to attend next year’s Annual Google PhD Fellowship Summit.

Google PhD Fellowship Program was created in 2009 to recognize and support outstanding graduate students doing exceptional research in Computer Science and related disciplines. Now in its ninth year, Google PhD Fellowships have helped support over 300 graduate students in Australia, China and East Asia, India, North America, Europe and the Middle East who seek to shape and influence the future of technology. This year, 47 PhD Candidates have been elected the Google PhD Fellows, including 4 outstanding doctoral students in China.