Deadline: 15 October 2014
The Google that targets to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful, will be accepting applications from the full-time faculty members at universities and research institutions that award research degrees to PhD students for the Google Faculty Research Awards. Application forms will be available from 1 October 2014.
Most awards are funded at the amount needed to support basic expenses for one graduate student for one year. Faculty members can apply for up to 150,000 USD in eligible expenses.
Research Areas
- Computational neuroscience
- Economics and market algorithms
- Geo/maps
- Human-computer interaction
- Information retrieval, extraction, and organization (including semantic graphs)
- Machine learning and data mining
- Machine perception
- Machine translation
- Mobile
- Natural language processing
- Networking
- Online education at scale
- Physical interactions with devices
- Policy and standards
- Privacy
- Robotics
- Security
- Social networks
- Software engineering and programming languages
- Speech
- Structured data and database management
- Systems (hardware and software)
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants can be full-time professors (assistant professors, associate professors, and full professors) at universities or degree-granting research institutions around the globe.
- Applicants must be be a full-time faculty member at an eligible institution and serve as a formal advisor to masters or PhD students.
- The funding requested must go to support students.
- Students, postdocs, or non-professor researchers who do not meet the criteria above cannot be the Principle Investigator (PI) or Co-Principal Investigator (co-PI).
- There are no limits on the number of proposals that can be submitted by different PIs (or co-PIs) from the same university.
- An applicant may only serve as PI or co-PI on one proposal per round.
- Past unrewarded applicants can apply with a new proposal.
- If an applicant’s proposal was funded through a Research Award (as a PI or a co-PI), s/he must wait at least one year from the application deadline of the round where s/he received funding before applying again.
- Same application that was submitted in any previous rounds cannot be submitted by any PI.
For more information, please visit Google Faculty Research Awards.
