Research Award Recipients
Supporting cutting-edge research from top research institutions around the world
To help build long-term relationships with academia and support innovative research, 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.
Award Recipients
Assistant Professor
Johan Ugander
Stanford University
Data Science - 2016
Professor
Jeff Bilmes
University of Washington
Machine Learning - 2016
Professor
Andrei Sabelfeld
Chalmers University of Technology
Infrastructure - 2016
Professor
Steve Swanson
University of California San Diego
Infrastructure - 2016
Assistant Professor
Munmum De Choudhury
Georgia Tech
User Experience - 2016
Professor
Jason Flinn
University of Michigan
Infrastructure - 2016
Assistant Professor
Keith Winstein
Stanford University
Infrastructure - 2016
Associate Professor
Noah Smith
University of Washington
Machine Learning - 2016
Professor
Andrew Gelman
Columbia University
Data Science - 2016
Professor
Mark Rodwell
University of California Santa Barbara
Connectivity - 2016
Professor
David Brooks
Harvard University
Infrastructure - 2016
Professor
Yoshua Bengio
University of Montreal
Machine Learning - 2016