Ellie Pavlick, a fourth-yearPhD student studying natural language processing in the department of computer & information science in Penn’s School of Engineering & Applied Science, is one of 12 2016-2017 Facebook Fellows. Each winner receives a two-year fellowship that includes payment of tuition and fees, a $37,000 unrestricted grant, opportunities for paid internships and a visit to Facebook’s headquarters to present research. This summer, Ms. Pavlick will intern at Google, where she will work on a project to analyze noun compounds.​