Google: Faculty Research Awards program

Supports excellent, permanent faculty pursuing cutting-edge research in areas of mutual interest. Faculty members can apply to cover expenses for the amount needed to support one graduate student for one year. A Google champion or sponsor is not required to submit a proposal, but it helps ensure that your proposal is relevant and of interest to Google.

Topic areas:

* Algorithms and optimization
* Augmented and Virtual reality
* Computational neuroscience
* Cooling and power
* Digital media processing
* Geo/maps
* Health Research
* 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)

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