Amazon: The Amazon Research Awards (ARA)

The ARA program funds projects conducted primarily by PhD students or post docs, under the supervision of the faculty member awarded the funds.

Topic areas include:

*Computer vision

* Economics

* Knowledge management and data quality

* Machine learning algorithms and theory

* Natural language processing

* Online advertising

* Operations research and optimization

* Personalization

* Robotics

* Search and information retrieval

* Security, privacy and abuse prevention

* Speech

Funding: up to $80,000 1 year.

https://ara.amazon-ml.com/proposals/#apply