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April 7, 2025

Amazon Research Awards Spring 2025 Call for Proposals

The Amazon Research Awards has announced the spring 2025 call for proposals in several research areas. The deadline for submissions is April 30, 2025. UW Faculty, please review UW guidance below for how to proceed at application and award stages.

January 7, 2025

UW + Amazon Science Hub announces 2024-25 Amazon Fellows and Faculty Research Awards

Amazon Fellowships were awarded to three UW Engineering doctoral students. Faculty Research Awards support five new research projects that include seven UW faculty, with each project receiving up to $100,000 in support from Amazon.

July 9, 2024

Introducing the Amazon Trusted AI Challenge

July 8, 2024 | Originally published by Amazon Science Today, Amazon is announcing the Amazon Trusted AI Challenge, a global university competition to drive secure innovation in generative AI technology. This year’s challenge focuses on responsible AI and specifically on large language model (LLM) coding security. “We are focusing on advancing the capabilities of coding LLMs, exploring…

June 13, 2024

UW+Amazon Science Hub & Middle Mile Products and Technology 2024 Call For Proposals

The Middle Mile Products and Technology team at Amazon is hosting an open call for proposals at the UW + Amazon Science Hub. The Middle Mile Products and Technology (MMPT)’s goal is to develop and operate the world’s largest and most efficient transportation and delivery network (services or products). To do this, MMPT supports research…

March 27, 2024

34 new or updated datasets available on the Registry of Open Data on AWS

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Open Data Sponsorship Program makes high-value, cloud-optimized datasets publicly available on AWS. We work with data providers to: · Democratize access to data by making it available to the public for analysis on AWS · Develop new cloud-based techniques, formats, and tools that lower the cost of working with data · Encourage the development of…

March 18, 2024

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2024 Workshop: RetailVision

Please see below information regarding an the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition being held in Seattle this year! CVPR 2024 Workshop: RetailVision June 18th, 2024. Seattle, Washington Workshop Website: https://retailvisionworkshop.github.io/ Challenge Website: https://grocery-vision.github.io/cvpr2024.html Greetings CV/ML researchers! We are excited to announce the release of two unique data challenge tracks (ABV and TAL/STAL) in our…

February 13, 2024

Amazon Summer 2024 Internship Opportunities

See below for a flyer for various open opportunities to intern at Amazon this summer! Opportunities are designed for PhD and Master’s students.

January 29, 2024

Amazon Research Awards 2024 Call for Proposals

The Amazon Research Awards has announced the winter 2024 call for proposals for Foundation Model Development. Proposals related to theory, practice, and novel new techniques are welcome, and will be reviewed for the quality of their scientific content, creativity, and potential for impact at scale. The deadline for submissions is 11:59 p.m. Pacific time on…

November 28, 2023

Maya Cakmak builds teachable robots to help humans

Through work supported via the UW + Amazon Science Hub, a research collaboration housed in UW’s Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, associate professor Maya Cakmak is researching a generation of robots that can be trained to not only grasp and handle heavy products but also turn to humans for help when needed.

June 29, 2023

UW + Amazon Science Hub announces 2023-24 Amazon Fellows; Faculty Research Awards

The UW + Amazon Science Hub, established in 2022 to advance innovation in core robotics, artificial intelligence technologies, and their applications, has awarded Amazon Fellowships to UW Engineering doctoral students Taewan Kim and Chuning Zhu for 2023-24. The Science Hub also announced support for five new research projects led by seven faculty from departments across the UW College of Engineering. Each project receives up to $100,000 in support from Amazon.