Announcing AWS Machine Learning Research Awards Amazon Web Services

We are excited to announce the AWS Machine Learning Research Awards, a new program that funds university departments, faculty, PhD students, and post-docs that are conducting novel research in machine learning (ML). We are working with Carnegie Mellon University, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Harvard Medical School, The University of Washington, and the University of California, Berkeley on this program. The scale and performance of the AWS Cloud, coupled with powerful frameworks like Apache MXNet, TensorFlow, Caffe2, Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK), and PyTorch, allow an unprecedented opportunity to drive machine learning research forward. The goal of this program is to help researchers accelerate the development of innovative algorithms, publications, and source code across a wide variety of machine learning applications and focus areas. In addition to funding, award recipients receive computing resources, training, mentorship from Amazon scientists and engineers, and have the opportunity to attend a research seminar at the AWS headquarters in Seattle.