Google Focused Research Awards

Google Focused Research Awards

On Tuesday February 2nd, we announced the first-ever round of Google Focused Research Awards. These awards are for research in areas of study that are of key interest to Google as well as the research community.

These unrestricted grants are for two to three years, and the recipients will have the advantage of access to Google tools, technologies, and expertise. We've given awards to 12 projects led by 31 professors at 10 universities:

Machine Learning

  • William Cohen, Christos Faloutsos, Garth Gibson, and Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University

Use of mobile phones as data collection devices for public health and environment monitoring

  • Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington and Deborah Estrin, UCLA

Energy efficiency in computing

  • Ricardo Bianchini, Rutgers, Fred Chong, UC Santa Barbara, Thomas F. Wenisch, University of Michigan, Sudhanva Gurumurthi, University of Virginia
  • Christos Kozyrakis, Mark Horowitz, Benjamin Lee, Nick McKeown and Mendel Rosenblum, Stanford
  • David G. Andersen and Mor. Harchol-Balter, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Tajana Simunic Rosing, Steven Swanson and Amin Vahdat, UCSD
  • Thomas F. Wenisch, Trevor Mudge, David Blaauw and Dennis Sylvester, University of Michigan
  • Margaret Martonosi, Jennifer Rexford, Michael Freedman and Mung Chiang, Princeton

Privacy

  • Ed Felten, Princeton
  • Lorrie Cranor, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Ryan Calo, Stanford CIS
  • Andy Hopper, Cambridge University Computing Laboratory
As we continue to identify key areas of research that are of mutual interest to both university researchers and Google, we will provide awards to support these collaborations.

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