LS 11-119 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship Program
Funding Amount:Unspecified |
Project Duration:One-time |
UC Davis Pre-Proposal Deadline:Aug. 29, 2011 at 11:59 pm |
Letter of Intent Deadline:
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Sponsor Deadline:Oct. 19, 2011 |
Program Website:http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/awards/msrff.aspx |
Funding Areas
**Please read Program Guidelines Carefully to Determine Application Requirements.** Microsoft Research seeks nominees who are advancing computing research in novel directions with the potential for high impact on the state of the art, and who demonstrate the likelihood of becoming thought leaders in the field. Because new faculty are so vital to the future of academic computer science, the Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship Program identifies, recognizes, and supports exceptional new faculty members engaged in innovative computing research. The objective of this program is to stimulate and support creative research undertaken by promising researchers who have the potential to make a profound impact on the field of computing in their research disciplines. The program provides recipients considerable freedom in planning the focus of their academic research. The funds can be applied to a wide variety of uses to pursue novel research. Examples of possible research areas include, but are not limited to: interdisciplinary research, scientific computing, bioinformatics, computational biology, software engineering, and other areas where computing transforms the discipline and advances the state of the art.
Eligibility and Nomination Requirements
**Please read program guidelines carefully and/or contact the program officer to determine your eligibility.** Nominees must hold a tenure-track faculty position, and may be no more than six years from the completion of their most recent PhD, ScD, or MD and be be new faculty members in the first, second, or third year of their first tenure-track faculty appointment.
Notes
Standard Office of Research Pre-Proposal Requirements can be found at:
http://research.ucdavis.edu/pgc/fo/ls/i
