[ Facebook Research - Statistics for Improving Insights, Models, and Decisions request for proposals | Research Funding ]
Event details
| Date | 29.04.2020 |
| Category | Call for proposal |
Aim: Facebook Research is following up on the 2019 Statistics for Improving Insights and Decisions research awards to foster further innovation in this area and to deepen our collaborations with academia. External researchers can submit proposals to address challenges in applied statistics that have direct applications for producing more effective insights and decisions for data scientists and researchers. Facebook has a large, active and diverse community of practitioners, so we are interested in a varied set of statistical topics, including but not limited to experimentation, forecasting, predictive modeling, survey and ground truth modeling and sampling.
The following are some specific examples of topics that are important to Facebook, but we will gladly review proposals for areas that are not listed below.
Facebook is pleased to invite faculty to respond to this call for research proposals. In order to support academic work that addresses our challenges and opportunities while producing generalizable knowledge, Facebook is pleased to offer six research awards of up to $50K each. Awards will be made as unrestricted gifts to the principal investigator’s host university.
Funding: USD $50’000
Eligibility: Applicants must be current full-time faculty at an accredited academic institution that awards research degrees to PhD students, and they must be the Principal Investigator on any resulting award. Awards must comply with applicable U.S. and international laws, regulations, and policies.
How to Apply: Proposals should include a summary of the project (1-2 pages) , a draft budget description (1 page), CVs of all involved researchers, administrative information about the institution, and a list of 1-2 keywords. For any assistance on the organizational details or tax information, please contact the Research Office. Budgets should be formulated to include 5% overhead (the maximum allowed in the program guidelines).
Deadline: 29 April 2020 (5:00 pm AOE), (extended from 25 March 2020)
Further information
The following are some specific examples of topics that are important to Facebook, but we will gladly review proposals for areas that are not listed below.
- Learning and evaluation under uncertainty
- Statistical models of complex social processes
- Causal interference with observational data
- Efficient sampling and prevalence measurement
- Design and analysis of experiments
- Anomaly detection
- Interpretability techniques for AI models
Facebook is pleased to invite faculty to respond to this call for research proposals. In order to support academic work that addresses our challenges and opportunities while producing generalizable knowledge, Facebook is pleased to offer six research awards of up to $50K each. Awards will be made as unrestricted gifts to the principal investigator’s host university.
Funding: USD $50’000
Eligibility: Applicants must be current full-time faculty at an accredited academic institution that awards research degrees to PhD students, and they must be the Principal Investigator on any resulting award. Awards must comply with applicable U.S. and international laws, regulations, and policies.
How to Apply: Proposals should include a summary of the project (1-2 pages) , a draft budget description (1 page), CVs of all involved researchers, administrative information about the institution, and a list of 1-2 keywords. For any assistance on the organizational details or tax information, please contact the Research Office. Budgets should be formulated to include 5% overhead (the maximum allowed in the program guidelines).
Deadline: 29 April 2020 (5:00 pm AOE), (extended from 25 March 2020)
Further information
- More details on the call can be found on the RFP website.
- For any other questions, contact the Research Office.
Practical information
- General public
- Free