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.
Bart Piet Knijnenburg
Clemson University
RFP: HCI & UX - 2019
Philip Kohen
Johns Hopkins University
Professor
Machine Translation - 2015
Sarit Kraus
Bar Ilan University
RFP: Instagram - 2019
Frauke Kreuter
University of Maryland
Professor
User Experience - 2016
Tushar Krishna
Georgia Institute of Technology
RFP: Infrastructure - 2019
Arvind Krishnamurthy
University of Washington
Professor
Infrastructure - 2015
Sudhir Krishnaswamy
Centre for Law and Policy Research
RFP: AI Ethics - India - 2019
Theresa Kuchler
New York University
Assistant Professor
Economics - 2018
Ritesh Kumar
Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Agra
RFP: Content Policy Research - 2019
Tom Kwanya
The Technical University of Kenya
RFP: Content Policy Research - 2019
Cliff Lampe
University of Michigan
Professor
CDS + GR - 2015
Neil Lawrence
University of Sheffield
Professor
Machine Learning - 2015
Kristina Lerman
University of Southern California
Associate Professor
Data Science - 2016
Kevin Leyton-Brown
University of British Columbia
Professor
CDS - 2017
Beibei Li
Carnegie Mellon University
RFP: Data Science - 2019
Jinyang Li
NYU
Associate Professor
Distributed System, ML - 2015
Victor O.K. Li
University of Hong Kong
Professor
RFP: Neural Machine Translation - 2018
Percy Liang
Stanford University
Assistant Professor
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning - 2016
Jessa Lingel
University of Pennsylvania
Assistant Professor
User Experience - 2018
Zachary Lipton
Carnegie Mellon University
RFP: NLP - 2019
Vincent Liu
University of Pennsylvania
Assistant Professor
Infrastructure - 2017