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
Associate Professor
Pieter Abbeel
University of California Berkeley
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning - 2016
Assistant Professor
Mohammed Alizadeh
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Infrastructure - 2016
Assistant Professor
Peter Bailis
Stanford University
Infrastructure - 2016
Associate Professor
Mahesh Balakrishnan
Yale University
Infrastructure - 2016
Professor
Yoshua Bengio
University of Montreal
Machine Learning - 2016
Assistant Professor
Theo Benson
Duke University
Infrastructure - 2016
Professor
Jeff Bilmes
University of Washington
Machine Learning - 2016
Professor
David Brooks
Harvard University
Infrastructure - 2016
Professor
Thomas Brox
University of Freiburg
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning - 2016
Assistant Professor
Vijay Chidambaram
University of Texas, Austin
Infrastructure - 2016
Assistant Professor
Kyunghyun Cho
New York University
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning - 2016
Assistant Professor
Munmum De Choudhury
Georgia Tech
User Experience - 2016
Assistant Professor
Vyas Sekar
Carnegie Mellon University
Infrastructure - 2016
Associate Professor
Landon Cox
Duke University
Infrastructure - 2016
Professor
Brian Curless
University of Washington
Machine Learning - 2016
Associate Professor
Hal Daume
University of Maryland
Machine Learning - 2016
Professor
Jason Eisner
Johns Hopkins University
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning - 2016
Assistant Professor
Sanja Fidler
University of Toronto
Machine Learning - 2016
Professor
Jason Flinn
University of Michigan
Infrastructure - 2016
Associate Professor
Nate Foster
Cornell University
Infrastructure - 2016
Professor
Andrew Gelman
Columbia University
Data Science - 2016