Google Research Scholar Program for Early-career Professors (up to $60,000) 2023

The Research Scholar Programme aims to support early-career professors who are pursuing research in fields relevant to Google.

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.

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)

About Google

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple, and Facebook. Google was founded in September 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University in California. The company's rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions, and partnerships beyond Google's core se... read more

Google Research Scholar Program

Aim and Benefits of Google Research Scholar Program

• The funds granted will be up to $60,000 USD and are intended to support the advancement of the professor’s research.

Requirements for Google Research Scholar Program Qualification

• Applicant should be a full-time assistant, associate, or full professor at a university or degree-granting research institution.
  • 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.

Application Deadline

How to Apply

For more details,visit Google website