Google Faculty Research Awards Program
– In 2020, Google announced the creation of the Research Scholar Program and the Award for Inclusion Research Program to bolster its support for the research community. The Research Scholar Program provides unrestricted gifts to support research at institutions around the world, and is focused on funding world-class research conducted by early-career professors. The inaugural cohort of scholars was selecte din 2021.

Award Recipients

• Pravesh K. Kothari, Computer Science
  
• Nihar B. Shah, Machine Learning, Computer Science
  
• Virginia Smith, Machine Learning
  
• Nathan Beckmann, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  
• Sivaraman Balakrishnan, Statistics, Machine Learning
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