Focused research awards (2009 - 2020)
The Focused Research Awards were an avenue for Google to invest in faculty and institutions. We will continue invest in global Research Grants outside of this program.
Past award recipients
Narendra Jussein, Ecole des Mines, Nantes
Andrea Lodi, University of Bologna
Pierre Lopez, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Denis Trystam, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble
Stefan Nickel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Safia Kedad-Sidhoum, Pierre and Marie Curie University
Leena Suhl, University of Paderborn
Pierre Bonami, Protisvalor Mediterranean
Prof Koch, Zuse Institute Berlin
Alessandro Panconesi, Flavio Chierichetti, Aris Anagnostopoulos, and Stefano Leonardi, Sapienza University of Rome
Paolo Boldi, Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi and Sebastiano Vigna, University of Milan
Gábor Lugosi, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona
Alexandre d'Aspremont and Francis Bach, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
Martin Jaggi, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
Steven Euijong Whang, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Sung Ju Hwang, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Wonyong Sung, Seoul National University
Bohyung Han, Seoul National University
Manuela Veloso and Randy Bryant, Carnegie Mellon University
Victor Zue, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alexander Pretschner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Erez Lieberman and JB Michel, Harvard University
Faculty at Bar-Ilan University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Technion, and Tel Aviv University
Ricardo Bianchini, Rutgers
Fred Chong, University of California, 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 University
David G. Andersen and Mor Harchol-Balter, Carnegie Mellon University
Tajana Simunic Rosing, Steven Swanson and Amin Vahdat, University of California, San Diego
Thomas F. Wenisch, Trevor Mudge, David Blaauw and Dennis Sylvester, University of Michigan
Margaret Martonosi, Jennifer Rexford, Michael Freedman and Mung Chiang, Princeton University
Hannah Bast, University of Freiburg
Peter Sanders and Dorothea Wagner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Lawrence An, Sarah Hawley, Rada Mihalcea, and Emily Mower Provost, University of Michigan
Ed Boyden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nancy Kopell, Boston University
Gerhard Weikum, Martin Theobald, and Rainer Gemulla, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbruecken
Maosong Sun and Xiaoyan Zhu, Tsinghua University
Masuam, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Partha Pratim Talukdar, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
Masashi Sugiyama, The University of Tokyo
Isabelle Guyon, INRIA
Sergey Levine, University of California, Berkeley
William Cohen, Christos Faloutsos, Garth Gibson, and Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University
Geoff Hinton, Richard Zemel, University of Toronto
Yann Le Cun, New York University
Casey REAS, University of California, Los Angeles
Golan Levin, Carnegie Mellon University
Luc Van Gool and Marc Pollefeys, ETH Zurich
Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan, University of Southern California
Martin Vetterli, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
Serge Belongie, University of California San Diego
Pietro Perona, California Institute of Technology
Panos Ipeirotis, New York University
Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington
Deborah Estrin, University of California, Los Angeles
Urs Hengartner, Gordon Cormack, Charles Clarke, and Michael Terry, University of Waterloo
Ramesh Jain, University of California, Irvine
Michael R. Lyu, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Gary Chan, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Shiqiang Yang and Maosong Sun, Tsinghua University
Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin University of China
Philip S. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago
Manabu Okumura, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Kentaro Inui, Tohoku University
Stefan Riezler, Heidelberg University
Mohit Bansal, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Yoav Artzi, Cornell University
Andrew McCallum, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Mark Johnson, Macquarie University
Hans Uszkoreit, Saarland University
Feiyu Xu, DFKI
Roberto Navigli, Sapienza University of Rome
Ivan Titov, University of Amsterdam
Sebastian Riedel, University College London
Percy Liang and Chris Manning, Stanford University
Luke Zettlemoyer, University of Washington
Anders Søgaard, University of Copenhagen
Nick Feamster and Wenke Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology
Shaya Fainman, Joe Ford, George Papen, and George Porter, University of California, San Diego
Jack Balkin, Yale University School of Law
Ed Felten, Princeton University
Lorrie Cranor, Carnegie Mellon University
Ryan Calo, Stanford University
Andy Hopper, University of Cambridge
Prof. Kagermann, German Academy of Science and Technology (Acatech)
Salil Vadhan and Latanya Sweeny, Harvard University Berkman Center
David Basin, Srdjan Capkun, Ueli Mauer and Bernhard Plattner, Zurich Information Security and Privacy Center, ETH Zurich
Aaron Roth, University of Pennsylvania
L Jean Camp, Indiana University
Daniel Kifer, Pennsylvania State University
Vern Paxson, International Computer Science Institute
Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University
Stephen Hand and Robert Watson, University of Cambridge
Dan Boneh and David Mazieres, Stanford University
Anthony Joseph, Dawn Song, Scott Shenker, Vern Paxson, Doug Tygar, and David Wagner; University of California, Berkeley
Collin Jackson, Carnegie Mellon University - Cylab
Nickolai Zeldovich, Frans Kaashoek and Robert Morris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sean W. Smith, Dartmouth University
Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M Voelker, and Kirill Levchenko, University of California, San Diego
Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University
Zachary Ives, Sudipto Guha, Andreas Haeberlen, Michael Kearns, and Aaron Roth, University of Pennsylvania
Michael Franklin, Michael Jordan, Ion Stoica, Alex Bayen, Armando Fox, Tim Kraska, Anthony Joseph, Randy Katz, Justin Ma, David Patterson, Purna Sarkar, and Scott Shenker, University of California, Berkeley
Gary Olson and Judy Olson, University of California, Irvine
Anne-Marie Kermarrec, INRIA
Rachid Guerraoui, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
Joseph Konstan, Loren Terveen, and John Riedl, University of Minnesota
Mor Naaman, Rutgers University
Oded Nov, Polytechnic Institute of New York University
Paul Resnick, Eytan Adar, and Cliff Lampe, University of Michigan
Marti Hearst, University of California Berkeley
David Karger and Rob Miller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Robert Kraut, Laura Dabbish, Jason Hong, and Aniket Kittur, Carnegie Mellon University
Ce Zhang, ETH Zurich
George Candea, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
Andreas Zeller, University of Saarland
Gordon Fraser, University of Sheffield
Manfred Broy, Technical University of Munich
Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto University
Junichi Yamagishi, National Institute of Informatics
Satoshi Nakamura, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Jeff Naughton, AnHai Doan, Jignesh Patel, Chris Re, University of Wisconsin
Mike Carey, University of California Irvine