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Application for the Google Academic Research Awards: Global Proposals 2024 are now open. Click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
Opportunity Details
Google Academic Research Awards aim to fund and/or actively collaborate with researchers, fostering an ecosystem that generates impactful research with real-world applications.
In each funding cycle, the GARA program will publish a series of Requests for Proposals (RFPs) focused on a diverse range of research areas within technology and computing. These RFPs will outline specific research challenges and opportunities that Google seeks to address through funding to and/or collaborations with academic institutions and researchers.
Open global requests for proposals
1. Creating ML benchmarks for climate problems
Google aims to fund research that leverages ML and Al to develop data-driven solutions for climate action, emphasizing the importance of strong benchmarks to evaluate these models. We are particularly interested in funding projects that address climate challenges using ML and improved benchmarks, involving collaboration between climate and ML experts within Google and external institutions.
2. Using Gemini and Google's open model family to solve systems and infrastructure problems
Google invites academic researchers to submit proposals leveraging Gemini and Gemma to advance next-generation computing infrastructure. The funded projects will focus on enhancing the efficiency, security, and sustainability of future computing systems, with a particular emphasis on machine learning for cross-stack optimization, hardware design, and efficiency improvements.
3. Making Education Equitable, Accessible and Effective using Al Google is committed to using Al to improve educational outcomes for all learners, focusing on equity and inclusivity. We are seeking research proposals on topics such as Al systems to improve student learning, evaluating Al-based educational solutions, empowering teachers with Al, developing guidelines for complex historical narratives, creating accessibility tools, facilitating collaboration and SEL development, and implementing Al for enhanced learning.
4. Quantum transduction and networking for scalable computing applications
Google believes distributed quantum computing offers significant advantages and aims to support research in this area. Specifically, Google seeks proposals on topics like transduction of superconducting qubits to transmission media, direct transduction of alternative platforms to superconducting qubits, and development of applications for distributed quantum systems beyond parallel compute and quantum key distribution.
5. Society-Centered Al
Google's Society-Centered Al aims to harness the transformative potential of Al for societal benefit through a multi-stakeholder approach, focusing on understanding diverse needs and developing impactful solutions. We invite research proposals that advance Al applications for underserved communities, promote stakeholder participation in Al development, or study the integration of Al and society.
6. Trust & Safety Research Award
Google's Trust & Safety Research Award seeks proposals to improve digital safety across the online ecosystem, particularly in areas like scams, safety by design, misinformation, child safety, and generative Al. The award welcomes research from various disciplines and offers unrestricted grants to support these efforts.
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