Amazon Awards 15 UT Graduate Students AI Ph.D. Fellowships
October 21, 2025 • by
Staff Writer
UT Austin had 15 Ph.D. candidates selected as fellows campus-wide, with most studying computer science.
Ten graduate students studying artificial intelligence in the College of Natural Sciences were announced as winners of Amazon AI Ph.D. Fellowships for the 2025–2026 academic year. Nominated by their faculty for the fellowships, the students each will receive support for pursuit of their doctoral degrees this year.
The winners from UT Austin computer science include:
- Rohit Dwivedul, a computer science graduate student advised by Professor Aditya Akella
- Siddhartha Jain, a computer science graduate student advised by Professor Scott Aaronson
- Sateesh Kumar, a computer science graduate student advised by Assistant Professor Georgios Pavlakos
- Syamantak Kumar, a computer science graduate student advised by Associate Professor Purnamrita Sarkar (statistics and data sciences) and Assistant Professor Kevin Tian (computer science)
- Haoyu Li, a computer science graduate student advised by Assistant Professor Venkat Arun
- Junbo Li, a computer science graduate student advised by a faculty member in the Chandra Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Atlas Wang
- Kaizhao Liang, a computer science graduate student advised by Associate Professor Qiang Liu
- Chutong Yang, a computer science graduate student advised by Assistant Professor Kevin Tian
- Xiao Zhang, a computer science graduate student advised by Assistant Professor Daehyeok Kim
- Parikshit Bansal, a computer science graduate student advised by a faculty member in ECE, Sujay Sanghavi
