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.
Xavier Rival
INRIA
Research Director
Infrastructure / 2016
Jaime Rivas
Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research
Group Leader
Connectivity / 2016
Mark Rodwell
University of California Santa Barbara
Professor
Connectivity / 2016
Alexander Rush
Harvard University
Assistant Professor
RFP: Neural Machine Translation / 2018
Andrei Sabelfeld
Chalmers University of Technology
Professor
Infrastructure / 2016
Ruslan Salakhutdinov
Carnegie Mellon University
Associate Professor
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning / 2016
Ruslan Salakhutdinov
Stanford University
Associate Professor
RFP: AI / 2017
Matt Salganik
Princeton University
Professor
CDS + GR / 2015
Anno Saxenians
University of California, Berkeley
Dean
User Experience / 2017
Bernhard Scholkopf
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Director
Machine Learning / 2016
Pooja Sethi
University of Washington
RFP: AI / 2017
Robert Shrum
University of Southern California (USC)
Professor
User Experience / 2017
Jeremy Siek
Indiana University
Associate Professor
Infrastructure / 2017
Yaron Singer
Harvard University
Professor
CDS + GR / 2015
Koustuv Sinha
McGill University
RFP: AI / 2017
Yannis Smaragdakis
University of Athens
Professor
Infrastructure / 2016
Aaron Smith
The University of Edinburgh
Associate Professor
RFP: Infrastructure / 2018
Noah Smith
University of Washington
Associate Professor
Machine Learning / 2016
Alex Snoeren
University of California, San Diego
Professor
Infrastructure / 2017
David Sontag
NYU
Assistant Professor
AI/ML / 2015
Johannes Stroebel
New York University