Ph.D. Resources

The following documents describe policies and procedures for our students and faculty:

Program policy for faculty

• Admission Committee Policy
• Curriculum-Assessment Committee

Program policy for students

Curriculum related

• i Courses
• Ph.D. Degree Certificaton
• Ph.D. Semester Curriculum
• Ph.D. Student Yearly Progress Report
• High-Impact Publication Guidlines

Assessment related

• Ph.D. Program Objective Assessment Form
• Research Potential Assessment Guidelines
• Research Potential Assessment Presentation Rubric
• Research Potential Assessment Research Paper Rubric

Committee composition

• Student Dissertation Committee
• Student PreAssessment Committee

Graduation related

• Ph.D. Dissertation Format Guidelines
• Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal Process
• Ph.D. Dissertation Process Policy
• Ph.D. Proposal and Dissertation Template
• Publication Requirement Policy Pre-Fall 2020
• Publication Requirement Policy v2
• RIT Graduate School Toolkit

The following technology resources are available for our students:

VMWare Software Center

Free VMWare software for faculty, staff, and students of RIT.

College of Computing Tech Ops

Equipment and computing resources for faculty, staff, and students of the Ph.D. department.

RIT Research Computing

RIT Research Support partners with researchers to support advanced research technology resources in computation, collaboration, and community building among RIT research faculty, staff and students.

Ph.D. students also benefit from access to additional technology resources through their participation in specific research groups, laboratories, or centers. Some laboratory webpages include additional information about resources available to doctoral students affiliated with those research groups:

• Facilities at the Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing Lab
• Software resources at the Computational Biomedicine Lab
• Facilities at the Computer Graphics and Applied Perception Lab
• Facilities at The SHED, student maker space
• Facilities at the Center for Accessibility and Inclusion Research
• Software resources at the Document and Pattern Recognition Lab
• Research facilities and resources at the ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute
• Facilities at the Linguistics and Assistive Technology Lab
• Facilities at the MAGIC Center

Fellowship Opportunities

As a member of the Ph.D. program in Computing and Information Sciences, you may be interested in the following fellowship opportunities with these industry leaders.

Government

• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Application (Application deadline has been in October in the past few years)
• Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (For the 2024-2025 application will be available late October 2023)
• Department of Energy Science Graduate Fellowship (For 2023 Solicitation 2 applications are due November 8, 2023 at 5:00 PM Eastern Time. For 2024 Solicitation 1 applications are due May 2024.)

Foundations

• AAUW Fellowships for Women Doctoral Students (Applications deadline: November 15th every year)
• Anita Borg Technical Leadership Awards for Women (For 2023 applications deadline was: May 25 at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time)
• GEM Fellowships for Minorities (The applications deadline is: November 10th)
• HENAAC Scholarship (The applications for the 2023-24 Academic Year through April 30, 2023)
• Hertz Foundation Fellowships (The 2024 application is now OPEN until 11:59 p.m. pacific on Friday, October 27, 2023)
• Link Foundation fellowships in energy (The applications for 2023 are due December 1st.)

Industry

• IBM Fellowships 
• Google PhD Fellowship Program (Applications for the 2024 program will open in Spring 2024)
• Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship