Core Insights - The NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program has awarded scholarships to 10 doctoral students for the 2026 academic year, each receiving up to $60,000 to support their research in various fields related to computational innovation [2][4]. Group 1: Award Recipients - Jiageng Mao from the University of Southern California focuses on solving complex physical AI problems using large-scale internet data, aiming for robust and generalizable intelligence in real-world embodied agents [5]. - Liwen Wu from the University of California, San Diego specializes in computer graphics and 3D vision, with interests in neural rendering, inverse rendering, and 3D reconstruction [8]. - Sizhe Chen from the University of California, Berkeley is dedicated to ensuring AI safety in real-world applications, particularly developing defenses against prompt injection attacks [10]. - Yunfan Jiang from Stanford University is working on scalable methods for building general-purpose robots for everyday tasks using mixed data sources [12]. - Yijia Shao from Stanford University researches human-AI collaboration, developing AI agents that can communicate and coordinate with humans during task execution [14]. - Shangbin Feng from the University of Washington aims to advance model collaboration among machine learning models trained on different data [17]. - Irene Wang from Georgia Tech is developing a collaborative design framework for large-scale, energy-efficient AI training [19]. - Chen Geng from Stanford University focuses on modeling the 4D physical world using scalable data-driven algorithms [23]. - Shvetank Prakash from Harvard University is building AI agents using new algorithms and intelligent infrastructure [26]. - Manya Bansal from MIT is designing programming languages for modern accelerators to enable modular and reusable code without sacrificing performance [28]. Group 2: Finalists - The program also recognized five finalists: Zizheng Guo from Peking University, Peter Holderrieth from MIT, Xianghui Xie from the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, Alexander Root from Stanford University, and Daniel Palenicek from Darmstadt University of Technology [31].