<div dir="ltr"><div>Does anyone have any contact at Amazon for LOGOS-related work?</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>--<div>Prof. Emiliano De Cristofaro</div><div>Computer Science and Engineering</div><div>University of California, Riverside</div><div><a href="https://emilianodc.com" target="_blank">https://emilianodc.com</a></div></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Brandon Reese</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:breese@engr.ucr.edu">breese@engr.ucr.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM<br>Subject: [CSE Faculty List] Amazon funding opportunity: Research Awards Spring 2025<br>To: <a href="mailto:coeteachers@engr.ucr.edu">coeteachers@engr.ucr.edu</a> <<a href="mailto:coeteachers@engr.ucr.edu">coeteachers@engr.ucr.edu</a>>, <a href="mailto:coeprofs@engr.ucr.edu">coeprofs@engr.ucr.edu</a> <<a href="mailto:coeprofs@engr.ucr.edu">coeprofs@engr.ucr.edu</a>>, <a href="mailto:certpi@cert.ucr.edu">certpi@cert.ucr.edu</a> <<a href="mailto:certpi@cert.ucr.edu">certpi@cert.ucr.edu</a>><br>Cc: Huguette Albrecht <<a href="mailto:halbrecht@engr.ucr.edu">halbrecht@engr.ucr.edu</a>>, Aimee Anaya <<a href="mailto:aanaya@engr.ucr.edu">aanaya@engr.ucr.edu</a>>, Lucy Matsukawa <<a href="mailto:lmats003@engr.ucr.edu">lmats003@engr.ucr.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div class="msg-5002643629377767149">
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<p class="m_-5002643629377767149MsoPlainText"><b><u>Amazon: Research Awards Spring 2025<u></u><u></u></u></b></p>
<p class="m_-5002643629377767149MsoPlainText"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Amazon Research Awards (ARA) program funds academic research and related contributions to open-source projects by top academic researchers around the world. ARA funds in a variety of research areas relevant to Amazon, such as applied
machine learning, automated reasoning, computer vision, fairness in artificial intelligence, machine learning algorithms and theory, natural language processing, robotics, security, sustainability and more.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Proposals will be reviewed for the quality of their scientific content, creativity, and their potential for impact at scale. Proposals related to theory, practice, and novel techniques are all welcome. ARA provides grant recipients unrestricted
funds and AWS promotional credits. Funded projects are assigned an Amazon research contact who offers consultation and advice along with opportunities to participate in Amazon events and training sessions, and recipients also receive training resources, including
AWS tutorials and hands-on sessions with Amazon scientists and engineers.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="m_-5002643629377767149MsoPlainText"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="m_-5002643629377767149MsoPlainText">For the Spring 2025 call for proposals, ARA is focusing on four research areas:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="m_-5002643629377767149MsoPlainText"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><a href="https://www.amazon.science/research-awards/call-for-proposals/ai-for-information-security-call-for-proposals-spring-2025" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">AI for Information Security</span></a><u></u><u></u></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ARA is seeking to fund AI research on the following topics in information security:<u></u><u></u></p>
<ol style="margin-top:0in" start="1" type="1">
<li class="MsoNormal">Agentic AI for security<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Generative AI and foundation models for information security<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Securing generative AI and foundation models<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Threat, intrusion and anomaly detection for cloud security<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Vulnerability detection and remediation using AI<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Incident response using AI<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Reinforcement learning for information security<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Learning with limited/noisy labels and weakly supervised learning<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Graph modeling and anomaly detection on graphs<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">ML for malware analysis and detection, with a focus on cloud environments or devices<u></u><u></u></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="m_-5002643629377767149MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:4.5pt">Budget: <u></u><u></u></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u>Unrestricted funds, no more than $80,000 USD on average<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="m_-5002643629377767149MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:0in">
<u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u>AWS Promotional Credits, no more than $40,000 USD on average<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="m_-5002643629377767149MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:4.5pt"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="m_-5002643629377767149MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:4.5pt">URL: <a href="https://www.amazon.science/research-awards/call-for-proposals/ai-for-information-security-call-for-proposals-spring-2025" target="_blank">
https://www.amazon.science/research-awards/call-for-proposals/ai-for-information-security-call-for-proposals-spring-2025</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Amazon Ads<u></u><u></u></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ARA welcomes proposals <u>in the context of digital advertising</u> in the following research tracks:<u></u><u></u></p>
<ol style="margin-top:0in" start="1" type="1">
<li class="MsoNormal">Fraud, Abuse, and financial scams<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Behavioral foundational models to distinguish human and bot behavior<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Multi-modal classification of online content and websites<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Device and website identification<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Detection of plagiarized content<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Cyber threat activity, malicious and adversarial misuse of AI and LLMs<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Decentralized identifiers, verifiable credentials, data lineage and transparency<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Large language models for labeling, annotation and auditing of model performance<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Detection and mitigation of hallucination in LLMs for content analysis
<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Protection of vulnerable individuals, specially child and teen safety<u></u><u></u></li></ol>
<p class="m_-5002643629377767149MsoListParagraph"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="m_-5002643629377767149MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:4.5pt">Budget: <u></u><u></u></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u>Unrestricted funds, no more than $80,000 USD on average<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="m_-5002643629377767149MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:0in">
<u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u>AWS Promotional Credits, no more than $40,000 USD on average<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="m_-5002643629377767149MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:.25in"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="m_-5002643629377767149MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:4.5pt">URL: <a href="https://www.amazon.science/research-awards/call-for-proposals/amazon-ads-call-for-proposals-spring-2025" target="_blank">
https://www.amazon.science/research-awards/call-for-proposals/amazon-ads-call-for-proposals-spring-2025</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Build on Trainium<u></u><u></u></u></b></p>
<p class="m_-5002643629377767149MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">Key topics <i>Build on Trainium</i> is exploring to drive innovation and enhance the future of AI/ML on AWS:<u></u><u></u></p>
<ol style="margin-top:0in" start="1" type="1">
<li class="m_-5002643629377767149MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">Novel kernels and compiler extensions for Trainium<u></u><u></u></li><li class="m_-5002643629377767149MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">Novel algorithms for large language models<u></u><u></u></li><li class="m_-5002643629377767149MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">Systems improvements for distributed training and hosting<u></u><u></u></li><li class="m_-5002643629377767149MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">Streamline development<u></u><u></u></li></ol>
<p class="m_-5002643629377767149MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="m_-5002643629377767149MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">Budget: Applicants are encouraged to request AWS Promotional Credits in one of two ranges:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="m_-5002643629377767149MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:0in">
<u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u>AWS Promotional Credits, up to $50,000<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="m_-5002643629377767149MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:0in">
<u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u>AWS Promotional Credits, up to $250,000 and beyond<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="m_-5002643629377767149MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="m_-5002643629377767149MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">URL: <a href="https://www.amazon.science/research-awards/call-for-proposals/build-on-trainium-call-for-proposals-spring-2025" target="_blank">
https://www.amazon.science/research-awards/call-for-proposals/build-on-trainium-call-for-proposals-spring-2025</a>
<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Think Big<u></u><u></u></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Amazon invites ambitious research proposals that align with our commitment to transformative innovation. Guided by our leadership principle to Think Big - looking around corners and creating bold direction that inspires results - we seek
proposals across all scientific disciplines with visionary, pioneering ideas. While proposals must be grounded in rigorous scientific methodologies, we challenge researchers to transcend current paradigms and envision revolutionary applications. This call
specifically targets research that might be considered speculative or contains out-of-the-box thinking. We welcome proposals including, but not limited to, ideas that:<u></u><u></u></p>
<ol style="margin-top:0in" start="1" type="1">
<li class="MsoNormal">Challenge fundamental assumptions in your field<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Propose novel frameworks for solving long-standing problems<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Could enable order-of-magnitude improvements over current approaches<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Have the potential to create new technical capabilities
<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">Could open unexplored frontiers in science and technology
<u></u><u></u></li></ol>
<p class="m_-5002643629377767149MsoListParagraph"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="m_-5002643629377767149MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">Budget: <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="m_-5002643629377767149MsoListParagraph"><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u>Unrestricted funds, up to $100,000 USD<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="m_-5002643629377767149MsoListParagraph"><u></u><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u>AWS Promotional Credits, no more than $70,000 USD on average<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="m_-5002643629377767149MsoListParagraph"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="m_-5002643629377767149MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">URL: <a href="https://www.amazon.science/research-awards/call-for-proposals/think-big-call-for-proposals-spring-2025" target="_blank">
https://www.amazon.science/research-awards/call-for-proposals/think-big-call-for-proposals-spring-2025</a>
<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="m_-5002643629377767149MsoPlainText"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="m_-5002643629377767149MsoPlainText"><b>Budget and Project Period:</b> Budget varies per research area, see above. Project period is one year<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="m_-5002643629377767149MsoPlainText"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Submission Deadline: </b>April 30<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="color:red">Note that this is a research proposal. Approval of the final proposal files by RED is required via Kuali no later than April 28.<u></u><u></u></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u></u> <u></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>For more information, go to: </b><a href="https://www.amazon.science/research-awards" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.science/research-awards</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Brandon Reese<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Grant Facilitator – UC Riverside, Bourns College of Engineering<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:breese@engr.ucr.edu" target="_blank">breese@engr.ucr.edu</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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