At Google, we are committed to developing new technologies to help our users find and
use information. While we do significant in-house research and engineering, we also
maintain strong ties with academic institutions worldwide pursuing innovative research
in core areas relevant to our mission. As part of that vision, the Google Research
Awards program aims to identify and support world-class, full-time faculty pursuing
research in areas of mutual interest. For a full list of past Research Awards
recipients
Google Research Awards are one-year awards structured as unrestricted gifts to
universities to support the work of world-class full-time faculty members at top
universities around the world. Faculty members can apply for Research Awards by
submitting a proposal to one of our two 2014 funding rounds. Our 2014 deadlines are
April 15 and October 15. Recipients are selected through a comprehensive internal
review process and notified of their awards within 4 months of the initial submission.
Faculty members can apply for up to 150,000 USD in eligible expenses, but actual award
amounts are frequently less than the full amount requested. Most awards are funded
at the amount needed to support basic expenses for one graduate student for one year
The intent of the Google Research Awards is to support cutting-edge research in
Computer Science, Engineering, and related fields. We ask applicants to categorize
their proposals into one of the following broad research areas of interest to Google:
- 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)
Each funded project will be assigned a Google sponsor. The role of the sponsor is to
support the project by discussing research directions, engaging with professors and
students, and overseeing collaboration between the project team and Google. We
encourage Research Awards recipients to visit Google to give talks related to their
work and meet with relevant research groups here. Through the Research Awards program,
we try to fund projects where collaboration with Google will be especially valuable to
the research team.
