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
Professor
Aditya Akella
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Infrastructure - 2017
Assistant Professor
Peter Alvaro
University of California, Santa Cruz
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
Assistant Professor
Yoav Artzi
Cornell University
RFP: AI - 2017
Researcher
Chloé Bakalar
Princeton University
Ethics - 2017
Assistant Professor
Mohit Bansal
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
RFP: AI - 2017
Lisa Bauer
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
RFP: AI - 2017
Professor
Genevieve Bell
Australian National University
User Experience - 2017
Professor
Yoshua Bengio
Stanford University
RFP: AI - 2017
Professor
Emery Berger
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Infrastructure - 2017
Professor
Lars Birkedal
Aarhus University
Infrastructure - 2017
Professor
Philip Brey
University of Twente
Ethics - 2017
Associate Professor
Yiran Chen
Duke University
RFP: AI - 2017
Associate Professor
Yejin Choi
University of Washington
RFP: AI - 2017
Maria Christakis
Max Planck Institute
Infrastructure - 2017
Associate Professor
Byung-Gon Chun
Seoul National University
RFP: AI - 2017
Professor
William W. Cohen
Stanford University
RFP: AI - 2017
Professor
Ítalo Cunha
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Infrastructure - 2017
Professor
Deven Desai
Georgia Institute of Technology
Ethics - 2017