Applications are open for the Google Research Scholar Programme 2023/2024. The Research Scholar Programme aims to support early-career professors who are pursuing research in fields relevant to Google.
Google Research Scholar Programme 2023/2024 for Early-career Professors
The Research Scholar Programme provides unrestricted gifts to support research at institutions around the world, and is focused on funding world-class research conducted by early-career professors.
Funding
- The funds granted will be up to $60,000 USD and are intended to support the advancement of the professor’s research.
Eligibility
- Applicants must be a full-time assistant, associate, or professor at a university or degree-granting research institution at the time of the application submission.
- Post doctoral staff can only serve as a co-PI, not a primary PI.
- Applicants must have received their PhD within seven years of submission (e.g. applicant in 2022 must have received PhD in 2015 or later).
- They consider exceptions for applicants who have been teaching seven years or fewer and had delays, such as working in industry, parental leave, leave of absence, etc. This exception request can be documented on the application.
- Applicants can submit one application per round.
- Faculty can only serve as a PI or Co-PI per round. Applicants cannot serve on two separate proposals.
- Applicants can apply a maximum of 3 times within the 7 years post-PhD.
Areas of Interest
Proposals are selected through an internal review process. Applicants will be notified of their proposal status within six months of the initial submission. They ask applicants to categorize their proposals into one of the following areas of interest to Google in Computer Science and related fields:
- Algorithms and optimization
- Applied science
- Geo/maps
- Health research
- Human-computer interaction
- Machine learning and data mining
- Machine perception
- Mobile
- Natural language processing
- Networking
- Privacy
- Quantum computing
- Security
- Software engineering and programming languages
- Structured data, extraction, semantic graph, and database management
- Systems (hardware and software)
Application
Submit applications by 11:59:59pm UTC on December 1, 2022. Notification of decisions will be announced by email in April 2023.
For more information, see FAQ and visit Google Research.