UT Computer Science graduate student Yu-Chuan Su has been awarded a 2017 Google Ph.D. Fellowship in Machine Perception. He is one of 33 recipients from North America, Europe and the Middle East.

Google created the Ph.D. Fellowship program in 2009 to recognize and support outstanding graduate students doing exceptional research in computer science and related disciplines. Now in its eighth year, Google's fellowship program has supported hundreds of future faculty, industry researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs.