DeepMind Scholars at AIMS South Africa AI for Science program: Be a citizen of any African country (Forty students will be selected for the 2024 intake)

Finance January 1, 2024

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DeepMind Scholars at AIMS South Africa AI for Science program: Be a citizen of any African country

Your undergraduate degree could be in physics, mathematics, statistics, computer science, engineering or any other discipline with a strong computational and mathematical component.

DeepMind Scholars at AIMS South Africa AI for Science program: Be a citizen of any African country

Prerequisites

To be eligible to apply for the AI for Science program, you have to:

be a resident in Africa at time of application,
be a citizen of any country in Africa,
have completed a four-year undergraduate degree or a three-year undergraduate degree with an honours year by August 2024 (or December 2024 for southern African applicants; see FAQ).

Your undergraduate degree could be in physics, mathematics, statistics, computer science, engineering or any other discipline with a strong computational and mathematical component.

The requirement of having completed either a four-year undergraduate degree or a three-year undergraduate degree with an additional honours year is a requirement for enrolling as a Master’s degree student in South Africa.

Online selection round

Your curriculum vitae
A motivation letter of around 500 words
Academic transcripts
Written mathematics questions (to be found on the application site)
Coding problem (to be found on the application site)

The online application includes a dozen short mathematics questions and one coding problem. It’s not an exam, but the questions give the selection panel some insight into how you approach problems. A full application can’t be completed at the last minute, and we encourage prospective DeepMind Scholars at AIMS South Africa to start applying early!

CLICK HERE TO APPLY ONLINE: DeepMind Scholars at AIMS South Africa AI for Science program: Be a citizen of any African country