Google: Faculty Research Awards program

Aim: to support world-class, permanent faculty pursuing cutting-edge research in areas of mutual interest. Awards through this program are typically for one year. Proposals can have a Google technical sponsor, who will act as a liaison.

Topic areas:

* Algorithms and optimization

* Computational neuroscience

* Cooling and power

* Digital media processing

* Geo/maps

* Human-AI interaction

* Human-computer interaction

* Information retrieval and real time content

* Machine learning and data mining

* Machine perception

* Machine translation

* Mobile

* Natural language processing

* Networking

* Physical interfaces

* Privacy

* Recommendation systems

* Security

* Social signal processing

* Software engineering and programming languages

* Speech

* Structured data, extraction, semantic graph, and database management

* Systems (hardware and software)

* Virtual / Augmented reality

https://ai.google/research/outreach/faculty-research-awards/