Google Announces 2021 Research Scholar Program Recipients

Google has announced its first recipients in its Research Scholar Program, an effort to develop collaborations with new professors and encourage the formation of long-term relationships with the academic community.

The company granted 77 awards, which included 86 principal investigators representing 15+ countries, and over 50 universities. Of the 86 award recipients, 43% identify as an historically marginalized group within technology.

Research areas for the recipients include: algorithms and optimization; augmented reality and virtual reality; geo; human computer interaction; health research; machine learning and data mining; mobile; machine perception; networking; natural language processing; privacy; quantum computing; structured data, extraction, semantic graph, and database management; security; software engineering and programming languages; systems; and other areas.

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