Google Faculty Research Awards

Google Faculty Research Awards
Sponsor Deadline: April 15, 2014
Award Amount: Up to $150,000 (median award amount is $50,000-$60,000)
Eligible Disciplines: 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; Policy and standards; Privacy; Robotics; Security; Social networks; Software engineering; Speech; Structured data and database management; Systems (hardware and software)

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. The intent of program is to support cutting-edge research in Computer Science, Engineering, and related fields. Google Research Awards are structured as unrestricted gifts designed to support roughly the cost of one Ph.D. student for one year of work plus a modest travel stipend.