Microsoft Research recognizes the following fellows, who represent the best and the brightest from North America.
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2013 PhD Fellows
Bharath Hariharan
University of California, Berkeley
Ahmed Kirmani
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Walter Lasecki
University of Rochester
Michael Paul
Johns Hopkins University
Gennady Pekhimenko
Carnegie Mellon University
Mert Pilanci
University of California, Berkeley
Jeffrey Rzeszotarski
Carnegie Mellon University
Rahul Sharma
Stanford University
Rashmi Vinayak
University of California, Berkeley
Mathew Weinberg
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mingchen Zhao
University of Pennsylvania
Yufei Zhao
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2012 PhD Fellows
Utku Ozan CandoganMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Gabriel Cohn
University of Washington, Seattle
George Dahl
University of Toronto
Sigal Oren
Cornell University
Ashish Patro
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Russell Power
New York University
Franziska Roesner
University of Washington, Seattle
Michael Rubinstein
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Julia Schwarz
Carnegie Mellon University
Rishabh Singh
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Richard Socher
Stanford University
Bangpeng Yao
Stanford University
2011 PhD Fellows
Michael Bernstein
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Morgan Dixon
University of Washington, Seattle
Matthew Fredrikson
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Allison Lewko
University of Texas, Austin
Renato Paes Leme
Cornell University
Qiang Liu
University of California, Irvine
Richard Peng
Carnegie Mellon University
Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Trang Thai
Georgia Institute of Technology
Yuandong Tian
Carnegie Mellon University
Oriol Vinyals
University of California, Berkeley
Chi Wang
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2010 PhD Fellows
Silas Boyd-Wickizer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Shubhangi Saraf
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
William Harris
University of Wisconsin – Madison
Charles Han
Columbia University
Chris Harrison
Carnegie Mellon University
Dafna Shahaf
Carnegie Mellon University
Dilip Krishnan
New York University
David Erickson
Stanford University
Jonah Sherman
University of California – Berkeley
Jian Peng
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
2009 PhD Fellows
Alekh Agarwal
University of California – Berkeley
Christopher Le Dantec
Georgia Institute of Technology
Huijia Lin
Cornell University
Jean-Francois Lalonde
Carnegie Mellon University
Katherine Coons
University of Texas – Austin
Lakshmi Ganesh
Cornell University
Ross Tate
University of California – San Diego
Shravan Rayanchu
University of Wisconsin
Snehit Prabhu
Columbia University
Timothy Austin
University of California – Los Angeles
Xiang Zhang
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Yaron Singer
University of California – Berkeley
Edith Law
Carnegie Mellon University
Kayur Patel
University of Washington
Sven Seuken
Harvard University
2008 PhD Fellows
Aruna Balasubramanian
University of Massachusetts
Ece Semiha Kamar
Harvard University
Eric S. Chung
Carnegie Mellon University
Michael Carbin
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nitin Gupta
Cornell University
Prabal Dutta
University of California, Berkeley
Pravin Bhat
University of Washington
Rohan Narayana Murty
Harvard University
Sasa Junuzovic
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
T. Scott Saponas
University of Washington
Vipul Goyal
University of California, Los Angeles
Zvonimir Rakamaric
University of British Columbia
Dave Levin
University of Maryland
John Wright
University of Illinois
Jon Froehlich
University of Washington
Yisong Yue
Cornell University
2008 Social Impact Award
Andrea Grimes
Georgia Institute of Technology
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