We support cutting-edge research and build long-term relationships with top research institutions around the world. To help achieve this, Facebook awards exceptional professors with research awards to support their ongoing research efforts. Awards typically result from our Research Awards program.
Note: previous awardees are archived here but the latest and most recent announcements first appear on our blog.
Aditya Akella
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Professor
Infrastructure / 2017
Peter Alvaro
University of California, Santa Cruz
Assistant Professor
Infrastructure / 2017
Peter Anderson
Australian National University
RFP: AI / 2017
Nicolas Angelard-Gontier
McGill University
RFP: AI / 2017
Drew Arad
Stanford University
RFP: AI / 2017
Yoav Artzi
Cornell University
Assistant Professor
RFP: AI / 2017
Mohit Bansal
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Assistant Professor
RFP: AI / 2017
Lisa Bauer
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
RFP: AI / 2017
Genevieve Bell
Australian National University
Professor
User Experience / 2017
Yoshua Bengio
Stanford University
Professor
RFP: AI / 2017
Emery Berger
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Professor
Infrastructure / 2017
Lars Birkedal
Aarhus University
Professor
Infrastructure / 2017
Yiran Chen
Duke University
Associate Professor
RFP: AI / 2017
Yejin Choi
University of Washington
Associate Professor
RFP: AI / 2017
Maria Christakis
Max Planck Institute
Infrastructure / 2017
Byung-Gon Chun
Seoul National University
Associate Professor
RFP: AI / 2017
William W. Cohen
Stanford University
Professor
RFP: AI / 2017
Ítalo Cunha
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Professor
Infrastructure / 2017
Raquel Fernández
University of Amsterdam
Associate Professor
RFP: AI / 2017
Maxwell Forbes
University of Washington
RFP: AI / 2017
Xavier Giro-i-Nieto
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya