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External Funding Opportunities

We’ve pulled together external funding opportunities in the fields of data science, simulation, machine learning, big data research, high-performance computation, and other cyberscience topics. Check back often to find new opportunities!

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Current Funding Opportunities

Alexa Fairness in AI

Alexa AI-Natural Understanding’s (NU) mission is to build and enable engaging, world-class conversational AI capabilities that are broadly accessible. Under this call for proposals, we are seeking to fund research projects on the following topics: Transparency, explainability, and accountability in AI systems Theories of computational/algorithm fairness and factors that affect algorithmic trustworthiness Detecting and ameliorating […]

Funding Organization: Amazon

Deadline: 01-21-2022

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Solar Energy Innovators Program Opportunity

The purpose of the Solar Energy Innovators Program is to enable selected applicants to conduct practical research on innovative solutions to the challenges faced by electric utilities, energy service providers, and electric public utility commissions as the levels of solar energy, as well as other distributed energy resources (DERs), increase on the electrical grid. Selected […]

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AI-Supported Medical Diagnostics

TRISH is soliciting proposals for the rapid development of commercially available or viable computer-based algorithms that facilitate diagnosis of medical conditions on NASA’s Medical Conditions List in addition to other medical conditions that may occur and require treatment during long-duration space flights as well as for terrestrial applications.

Funding Organization: Translational Research Institute for Space Health

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Simons Investigators in Mathematics and Physical Sciences

A Simons Investigator is appointed for an initial period of five years. Renewal for an additional five years is contingent upon the evaluation of scientific impact of the Investigator. An Investigator receives research support of $100,000 per year. An additional $10,000 per year is provided to the Investigator’s department. The Investigator’s institution receives an additional […]

Funding Organization: Simons Foundation

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Electronics, Photonics and Magnetic Devices (EPMD)

The Electronics, Photonics and Magnetic Devices (EPMD) Program supports innovative research on novel devices based on the principles of electronics, optics and photonics, optoelectronics, magnetics, opto- and electromechanics, electromagnetics, and related physical phenomena. EPMD’s goal is to advance the frontiers of micro-, nano- and quantum-based devices operating within the electromagnetic spectrum and contributing to a […]

Funding Organization: National Science Foundation

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PCC Micro-Grants

This Partnership for Clean Competition (PCC) program helps quickly fund quality research projects that fill immediate gaps in anti-doping knowledge. Qualified research must be limited to less than six months for completion and requires less than $75,000 in funding. PCC is seeking projects that enhance knowledge surrounding performance enhancing substances, provide reference materials, collect and test samples […]

Funding Organization: Partnership for Clean Competition

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NSF Documenting Endangered Languages

This National Science Foundation grant searches for projects to develop and advance knowledge concerning endangered human languages. Funding can support fieldwork and other activities relevant to the digital recording, documenting, and archiving of endangered languages, including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples, and databases. Proposals are accepted anytime.

Funding Organization: National Science Foundation

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NSF-BSF Joint Funding Programs (Various Due Dates)

The National Science Foundation and Israel Binational Science Foundation have partnered to offer various funding programs such as Computational Neuroscience, Cyber Security and Privacy, Computer Networks and Systems and Computing and Communications Foundations. Researchers within the United States must partner with a researcher from Israel for the project to be eligible. Learn more about these opportunities here. 

Funding Organization: NSF-BSF

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