Apply for fellowships. NSF, NDSEG, and Hertz are all open to anyone in the sciences, and there are some other fellowships that are more field-specific. In general, you should only really care about the fellowships that provide full tuition (as opposed to the many smaller fellowships that offer ~$5k-$10k per year).
Fellowships usually don’t actually help your personal monetary situation that much, but dramatically increase your flexibility to do what you want in grad school.
Background: first year PhD student in machine learning at Stanford.
Apply for fellowships. NSF, NDSEG, and Hertz are all open to anyone in the sciences, and there are some other fellowships that are more field-specific. In general, you should only really care about the fellowships that provide full tuition (as opposed to the many smaller fellowships that offer ~$5k-$10k per year).
Fellowships usually don’t actually help your personal monetary situation that much, but dramatically increase your flexibility to do what you want in grad school.
Background: first year PhD student in machine learning at Stanford.