Every year Microsoft Research selects five Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellows from approximately 100 individuals nominated by universities across the United States and Canada.
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2008 New Faculty Fellowship Awards
About the Nominations
Each university can nominate one candidate for the New Faculty Fellowship program.
Nominations for the 2009 Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellows was closed on November 3, 2008. Winners will be announced at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2009.
About the Program
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.
The future of computing in academe rests with its newest faculty. In these early-career professionals lie the seeds of tomorrow’s great innovations. However, while recognized faculty with well-established reputations are able to attract the financial support necessary for substantial research programs, young faculty often struggle to secure adequate support to allow them to realize their full potential.
Because new faculty are so vital to the future of academic computer science, the Microsoft Research New 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.
About the Awards
Each fellowship award includes an unrestricted cash gift of US$200,000. The New Faculty Fellows also have access to other Microsoft resources, such as software, invitations to conferences, and engagements with Microsoft Research. Microsoft will award five New Faculty Fellowship grants in spring 2009.
The Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship Awards program gives 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: security, interdisciplinary research, scientific computing, bioinformatics, computational biology, software engineering, and other areas where computing transforms the discipline and advances the state of the art.
Nominations of women faculty members in computing fields are encouraged. A goal of the program is to award at least two of the Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowships each year to qualified women nominees.
2008 New Faculty Fellowship Awards
In April, the 2008 Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship grant recipients were selected. Meet the 2008 New Faculty Fellows...
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