Samueli Endowed Fellowship Awarded to 11 Graduate Students

Feb. 4, 2022 – Eleven engineering graduate students have been awarded the Henry Samueli Endowed Fellowship for the 2021-2022 academic year.

Funded by Henry Samueli, co-founder of Broadcom Corp., these fellowships offer financial support to graduate students by covering fees and stipends for the academic year.

Open to all Samueli School students who are pursuing a graduate degree, the competitive awards are given based on academic merit.

“The Samueli Endowed Fellowship is one of the most coveted fellowships we have,” said Fadi Kurdahi, associate dean for graduate and professional studies and professor of electrical engineering and computer science.

“Henry Samueli is by far our biggest school benefactor. The fact that his background is in academia is very important because he has a good awareness of what academia needs in order to thrive.”

Kurdahi pointed to the fellowship’s flexibility and far-reaching impact. “It allows the departments to target where it’s needed the most.” He added that it is distributed across all departments and benefits multiple students each year.

The fact that it’s named also helps in recruiting top quality talent to the School of Engineering, explained Kurdahi. “Students can put on their resume that they have a named fellowship, which is more significant than a generic fellowship. Some of my students have received it in the past and gone on to have successful careers.”

“We’re fortunate to have Henry Samueli supporting us through this fellowship,” Kurdahi said. “Its flexibility allows us to optimize the use of our resources – the fellowship being a major one of them – in recruiting graduate students, retaining them and really making sure they progress in a timely matter toward their graduate degrees.”

Here are this year’s fellowship winners: