MAGGIE JOHNSON: The opportunities

that students get by getting a fellowship from Google

are really pretty significant.

Not only do we provide three years of funding,

but we also provide a Google sponsor--

so someone who, along with their academic mentor,

is actually helping them in their research pursuits.

So we really give them a lot of insight

into the industry view while they're working

on their academic experiences.

IAN GOODFELLOW: Receiving the PhD Fellowship really

gave me a lot of freedom to pursue my own research

directions and my own projects.

As a PhD Fellowship recipient, you're

free to do whatever you want.

And you can drop a lot of the smaller things

that you're working on and work on something really ambitious.

MAYA GUPTA: This program gives us

the chance to tap into some of the budding talent

and get to know researchers and research

programs throughout the world who

might be thinking about things from different perspectives

than we have.

ED CHI: I decided to become a mentor because I've always

found interacting with students to be very vibrant,

and they bring a useful energy to new ideas and new innovation

methods that we may not have necessary considered here

at Google.

JEFF DEAN: What I often tell young researchers and people

earlier in their career is the best way to learn things is

to work with people who know things that you don't.

Collaboratively, you can then solve problems that none of you

could do individually.

MAGGIE JOHNSON: Think about how these cutting-edge technologies

that are so present right now--

things like machine learning and deep learning,

even quantum as it's starting to emerge--

is to think about how these are actually

going to impact society and the people who use them.

MAYA GUPTA: We're trying to tackle

some really hard research problems here at Google.

And so having that two-way communication between Google

and Google Research and the rest of the research community

is just really great and really important.

MAGGIE JOHNSON: We want to make sure that we are together

preparing this next generation for all kinds

of exciting and innovative things.