Featured research collaborations

We have the opportunity to build collaborations with global faculty through several different programs. This page highlights current collaborations that are important to us and awards that we granted beyond our faculty engagement programs.

While we do significant in-house research and engineering, we also maintain strong ties with academic institutions worldwide pursuing innovative research in core areas relevant to our products and services. As part of that vision, our research awards aim to recognize and support world-class faculty and labs pursuing cutting-edge research in areas of mutual interest. As part of Google’s ongoing commitment to support ambitious research, we support faculty through a variety of research awards in areas that are of key interest to Google.

Artists + machine intelligence (AMI) research awards

Google’s Artists + Machine Intelligence (AMI) Research Awards provide funding to higher education faculty pursuing arts and social science research related to machine learning (ML) and its implications on society.

See award recipients

Award details

Awards are disbursed as unrestricted gifts to the researcher’s university or organization and are not intended for overhead or indirect costs. We welcome interdisciplinary proposals from across art and social science disciplines, including, but not limited, to anthropology, architecture, design, history, linguistics et cetera, with implications for the development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, especially generative ML, computer vision, and natural language processing.

Program Status

Applications are currently closed.

Notification of decisions for 2022 applications will be made in June 2022. The AMI Research Awards application window will be reopened in 2023.

Computer science education research awards

Google’s Computer Science Education Research (CS-ER) Awards provide funding for one-year proof-of-concept pilots. In addition to receiving funding, awardees join a year-long cohort experience that creates opportunities for researchers to share expertise and tools and provide mentoring to new researchers.

See award recipients

Award details

Awards are disbursed as unrestricted gifts to the researcher’s university or organization and are not intended for overhead or indirect costs. We welcome proposals that are interdisciplinary (for example, intersections of computer science, education, cognitive sciences, psychology, sociology, neuroscience, instructional design, et cetera), empirically-based, and focused on advancing the scientific understanding and practice of CS teaching and learning in scalable ways. Proposals that include partnerships across multiple institutions are especially welcome. See the FAQ for details on priority research areas.

Program Status

Applications are currently closed.

The CS Education Research Awards application window will be reopened in 2023.

India research awards

India Research Awards are focused on supporting exceptional computer science research in India, in areas relevant to Google. Through this program we also intend to strengthen long-term collaborative relationships with faculty working on problems that will impact how future generations use technology.

The program also includes a component to support early-career researchers.

See award recipients

Award details

India Research Awards intends to support faculty (with a sub-track for early-career researchers) at Indian universities engaged in world-class research in all areas relevant to Google.The program is open to faculty at a university or degree-granting research institution in India. We are also including a sub-track to support early-career professors (faculty who have begun their faculty careers within five years of submission of application).

The funds granted will range from $10,000 USD - $20,000 USD and are intended to support the advancement of the professor’s research.

Faculty can submit one application per round by including a two-page research proposal outlining their research agenda (research goals, proposed approach, expected outcomes, relation to prior work) and Faculty’s CV. References are not included in the page limit.

Program Status

Applications are currently closed.

Decisions for the September 2022 application will be announced via email in November 2022. Please check back in 2023 for details on future application cycles.

South Asia & Southeast Asia research awards

The South Asia & Southeast Asia Research Awards are focused on supporting exceptional computer science research in the region. Through this program, we also intend to strengthen long-term collaborative relationships with faculty working on problems that will impact how future generations use technology.

See award recipients

Award details

The South Asia & Southeast Asia Research Awards intend to support faculty at universities or degree-granting research institutions in the region engaged in world-class research in all areas relevant to Google. The program also includes a sub-track to support early-career professors (faculty who have begun their faculty careers within five years of submission of application).

The funds granted will range from $10,000 USD - $30,000 USD and are intended to support the advancement of the professor’s research.

Faculty can submit one application per round by including a two-page research proposal outlining their research agenda (research goals, proposed approach, expected outcomes, relation to prior work) and the faculty member’s CV. References are not included in the page limit.

Program Status

Applications are currently closed.

Decisions for the September 2022 application will be announced via email in October 2022. Please check back in 2023 for details on future application cycles.

Frequently asked questions

Learn more about our programs and outreach efforts on our FAQ page.

See FAQs