Jesse Mu Awarded NSF GRFP Fellowship

Boston College alumnus Jesse Mu '17 was recently awarded a National Science Foundation GRFP (Graduate Research Fellowship Program) fellowship.  “It’s a national competition,” says Mu. “About 12,000 people applied but only 2,000 fellowships were awarded.”

The five-year NSF fellowship funds over three years. For each year, the school receives a $12,000 per year payment towards the cost of tuition, and the fellow receives a $34,000 per year living stipend. Mu says there are also additional opportunities available, like supercomputing time and opportunities to do research abroad.

“After finishing up my master's degree in CS at Cambridge in June (from the Churchill Scholarship), I'll be starting my CS PhD at Stanford this Fall 2018, supported by the NSF GRFP. I'll be working on natural language processing, psycholinguistics, and machine learning.”

More information about the GRFP can be found at: https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=245024&org=NSF&from=news