Amazon Research Awards

The awards program offers unrestricted funds and AWS Promotional Credits to support research at academic institutions and non-profit organizations in areas that align with our mission to advance customer-obsessed science.

Program news

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    Check out the latest call for proposals, and find out how to apply.

Resources for applicants

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    Before submitting your proposal, please check the eligibility criteria, and other rules.
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    Have questions about program rules and eligibility? You can find the answers here.

Recipients and projects

  • Amazon Research Award recipient Shrikanth Narayanan is on a mission to make inclusive human-AI conversational experiences.
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    Learn how researchers have leveraged Amazon Research Awards support to innovate faster.
  • Amazon is proud to support the work of these researchers and their projects.
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The ARA support has substantially helped crystallize our group's formulations and algorithms for fairness in cloud services, efficiency in online advertising, and the tradeoffs between efficiency and fairness in online services.
Aravind Srinivasan, University of Maryland, College Park
GB, MLN, Edinburgh
We’re looking for a Machine Learning Scientist in the Personalization team for our Edinburgh office experienced in generative AI and large models. You will be responsible for developing and disseminating customer-facing personalized recommendation models. This is a hands-on role with global impact working with a team of world-class engineers and scientists across the Edinburgh offices and wider organization. You will lead the design of machine learning models that scale to very large quantities of data, and serve high-scale low-latency recommendations to all customers worldwide. You will embody scientific rigor, designing and executing experiments to demonstrate the technical efficacy and business value of your methods. You will work alongside aRead more