2015 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship
Pre-Proposal Deadline: September 15, 2014 by 5PM
Award Amount: unspecified (2013 award totaled $200,000)
Target Disciplines: interdisciplinary research, scientific computing, bioinformatics, computational biology, software engineering, and other areas where computing transforms the discipline and advances the state of the art
Target Faculty: new faculty members in the first, second, or third year of their first tenure-track faculty appointment as of the application deadline

The Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship program identifies, recognizes and supports innovative, promising new faculty members whose exceptional talent for research and innovation in computer science identifies them as emerging leaders in their fields. The objective of this program is to stimulate and support creative research undertaken by researchers who have the potential to make a profound impact on the field of computing in their research disciplines. The one recent Harvard winner is Radhika Nagpal, 2005, Fred Kavli Professor of Computer Science, Core Member, SEAS, and Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.