2021 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship

Sponsor: Microsoft Corporation
Solicitation Title: 2021 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship
Event Type: Limited Submission
Funding Amount: see Other Information
Internal Deadline: Wednesday, February 17, 2021 Sponsor Deadline: Monday, February 22, 2021
Solicitation Link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/faculty-fellowship/

Overview

The Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship recognizes innovative, promising new faculty, whose exceptional talent for research and innovation identifies them as emerging leaders in their fields. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Fellows should support this mission by fostering diverse and inclusive cultures within their communities. Faculty must be nominated by their university or a researcher at Microsoft. What it is: Two-year fellowship that recognizes innovative, promising early-career professors in the Americas who are exploring breakthrough, high-impact research in computer science or a related field. Research must be closely related to the general research areas carried out by Microsoft Research: Intelligence <ul> <li>Artificial intelligence</li> <li>Audio & acoustics</li> <li>Computer vision</li> <li>Graphics & multimedia</li> <li>Human-computer interaction</li> <li>Human language technologies</li> <li>Search & information retrieval</li> </ul> Systems <ul> <li>Data platforms and analytics</li> <li>Hardware & devices</li> <li>Programming languages & software engineering</li> <li>Quantum computing- Security, privacy & cryptography- Systems & networking </li> </ul> Theory <ul> <li>Algorithms</li> <li>Mathematics</li> </ul> Other Sciences <ul> <li>Ecology & environment</li> <li>Economics</li> <li>Medical, health & genomics</li> <li>Social sciences</li> <li>Technology for emerging markets</li> </ul>

Solicitation Limitations: Eligibility Full-time faculty at a degree-granting college or university in North America or South America. Faculty must have received their terminal degree (e.g., PhD, DSc) in May 2016 or later. We will take into account approved delays, like leaves of absences from the workplace and postdocs, on a case by case basis if you contact us at <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>. Currently conducting research, advising graduate students, and teaching in a classroom. Proposed research must be closely related to the general research areas carried out by researchers at Microsoft as noted in the Our research tab above. A maximum of three nominations per university will be accepted; if more than one is nominated, then the other one or two nominees should help us increase the opportunities for faculty who are underrepresented in the field of computing. This includes those who self-identify as a woman, African American, Black, Hispanic, Latinx, American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and/or person with a disability. Apply to the internal competition at <a href="https://asu.infoready4.com/#competitionDetail/1834945">https://asu.info…; Other Information:Provisions of the 2021 award include $100,000 USD awarded annually for two years starting in the fall of 2021. Nominations, from the university or a researcher at Microsoft, close Monday, February 22, 2021. Qualified nominees will receive an invitation email in early March 2021 to submit a full proposal and references, which will be accepted through March 29, 2021. Finalists will be notified in early May and interviewed virtually in May 2021. Awardees will be announced by early July 2021. If you were nominated by your university or a researcher at Microsoft, then you will receive an email from Microsoft Research Fellowships (<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>) in early March, which includes a private link to submit your proposal. Guidance on selecting a topic area Q. How related does my work need to be to Microsoft Research? A. Your work should be of interest to researchers at Microsoft; however, it doesn’t need to directly line up with an existing project or topic. It is important for your work to be related enough that researchers at Microsoft will be able to review it and have interest in supporting it. Microsoft Research is large, interdisciplinary, and covers a broad area — use the Our research tab above as a guideline for the areas we cover. When in doubt, we suggest you browse the webpages of researchers who look like they may be related to your area and see if they have papers in the similar topics or publish in conferences you publish in and/or attend. If you find one or more such researchers that share these connections with you, then you can feel confident that your work is related enough to submit a proposal.

Last Updated: 02/05/2021

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