Microsoft Research recognizes the following fellows, who represent the best and the brightest from North America.

2012 PhD Fellowship Recipients

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• 2011 PhD Fellows
• 2010 PhD Fellows
• 2009 PhD Fellows
• 2008 PhD Fellows
• 2008 Social Impact Award

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

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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

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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

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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

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2008 Social Impact Award

Andrea Grimes
Georgia Institute of Technology

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