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

Algorithms and Mathematical Optimization

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

Artificial Intelligence

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

Cloud Computing

Alexander Pretschner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Culturomics

Erez Lieberman and JB Michel, Harvard University

Economics and Market Algorithms

Faculty at Bar-Ilan University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Technion, and Tel Aviv University

Energy Efficiency in Computing

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

Geo/Maps

Hannah Bast, University of Freiburg

Peter Sanders and Dorothea Wagner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Human-Computer Interaction and Visualization

Lawrence An, Sarah Hawley, Rada Mihalcea, and Emily Mower Provost, University of Michigan

Information Retrieval, Extraction, and Organization

Ed Boyden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nancy Kopell, Boston University

Gerhard Weikum, Martin Theobald, and Rainer Gemulla, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbruecken

Language Understanding and Knowledge Discovery

Maosong Sun and Xiaoyan Zhu, Tsinghua University

Masuam, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Partha Pratim Talukdar, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

Machine Learning

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

Machine Perception

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

Mobile

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

Natural Language Processing

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

Networking

Nick Feamster and Wenke Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology

Shaya Fainman, Joe Ford, George Papen, and George Porter, University of California, San Diego

Open Standards

Jack Balkin, Yale University School of Law

Privacy

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

Security

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

Social Computing

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

Social Interactions

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

Software and Hardware Systems Infrastructure

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

Speech Processing

Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto University

Junichi Yamagishi, National Institute of Informatics

Satoshi Nakamura, Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Structured Data

Jeff Naughton, AnHai Doan, Jignesh Patel, Chris Re, University of Wisconsin

Mike Carey, University of California Irvine